This signification would embrace a large number of passages in which the term is used, though certainly not all.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

O to have been brought up on bays, lagoons, creeks, or along the coast, To continue and be employ'd there all my life, The briny and damp smell, the shore, the salt weeds exposed at low water, The work of fishermen, the work of the eel-fisher and clam-fisher; I come with my clam-rake and spade, I come with my eel-spear, Is the tide out?
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Because she was embarrassed and lonely she worked constantly at her studies.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

And next she gave her (I say her, because The gender still was epicene, at least In outward show, which is a saving clause) An outline of the customs of the East, With all their chaste integrity of laws, By which the more a haram is increased, The stricter doubtless grow the vestal duties Of any supernumerary beauties.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

The journey seemed endless; street after street was entered and left behind; and still they went jolting on.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The path to it had been enlarged, and steps hewn in the rock led us less circuitously than before, to the spot itself; the platform on which the pyramid stood was enlarged, and looking towards the south, in a recess overshadowed by the straggling branches of a wild fig-tree, I saw foundations dug, and props and rafters fixed, evidently the commencement of a cottage; standing on its unfinished threshold, the tomb was at our right-hand, the whole ravine, and plain, and azure sea immediately before us; the dark rocks received a glow from the descending sun, which glanced along the cultivated valley, and dyed in purple and orange the placid waves; we sat on a rocky elevation, and I gazed with rapture on the beauteous panorama of living and changeful colours, which varied and enhanced the graces of earth and ocean.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

She was evidently a lady of breeding.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

She was tormented by hunger, she thought with what greediness she would eat a lamb, and these thoughts made her teeth snap, and her eyes glitter in the darkness like two sparks of light.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Now that she was enjoying a little private feast of her own, it would have seemed incredibly selfish not to lay a plate for a friend; and there was no one with whom she would rather have shared her enjoyment than Miss Bart.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

But courage, he says; our sorrow will end at last—we shall be re-united—
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

In all polarizable organs there is a change or alternation of waking and sleeping, which endures a longer and shorter time.
— from Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken

An imperceptible smile was enough, a little movement of the corners of her mouth: Christophe was hypnotized by her.
— from Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Romain Rolland

Suppose we eat a little venison, Tayoga, and strengthen ourselves for the ordeal."
— from The Rulers of the Lakes: A Story of George and Champlain by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

I conjecture these stones were erected as land-marks, and guides to the traveller.
— from History of Llangollen and Its Vicinity Including a Circuit of About Seven Miles by W. T. (Wilfrid Tord) Simpson

When this plant was most sensitive, and you irritated it, did the opposite leaflets shut up quite close, as occurs during sleep, when even a lancet could not be inserted between the leaflets?
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

And in the constant coming and going at the palace, the keenest eyes might easily have failed to notice some who entered and left; and within there were many passages known only to the initiated.
— from Princess Maritza by Percy James Brebner

[32] It is almost unnecessary to add, that the free, unilocular ovary, or seed vessel, forms, as a result of its development, the seed, whose embryo adheres laterally to a farinaceous kernel, or perisperm .
— from Everyday Objects; Or, Picturesque Aspects of Natural History. by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

Still, where estates are large, the Master of Foxhounds, patient and realising the changed conditions of modern hunting and fox preserving, and the farmers long-suffering, as they will still be if properly treated, foxhunting may yet survive for another century at least.
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

The evil beast at his side was emitting a low, throaty growl; but neither that nor the proximity of this demon availed to awaken the sleeping girl.
— from John Ames, Native Commissioner: A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Bertram Mitford