Then, in a summary passage at the end, Lucretius enumerates all the chief discoveries which men have made in the age-long process—ships, agriculture, walled cities, laws, roads, clothes, songs, pictures, statues, and all the pleasures of life—and adds, "These things practice and the experience of the unresting mind have taught mankind gradually as they have progressed from point to point."
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The sheer precipice at the edge looked so dangerous to Jo Ann that she tried to keep from looking over.
— from Crossed Trails in Mexico Mexican Mystery Stories #3 by Helen Randolph

CXIII She spurred her courser, and with lance in rest, Imperious at the foolish rabble made, And — through the neck impaled or through the breast, — Some pierced, some prostrate at the encounter layed.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

"Here we are," he appeared to be saying, "established on our own rock, which belongs exclusively to us with everything on it, even to the smallest pebble and to every leaf and flower of the thrift and sea-campion growing on it.
— from The Land's End: A Naturalist's Impressions In West Cornwall, Illustrated by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

She pauses, and the echo lingers Hovering like wings upon the air.
— from The Five Books of Youth by Robert Hillyer

The crew seemed perfectly at their ease, laughing and talking when below, as if their situation was one to which they were well accustomed.
— from The Rival Crusoes by William Henry Giles Kingston