In that case, vision by means of these eyes must be direct; and it is indeed difficult to understand how an insect can obtain a correct impression when it looks at the world with five eyes, three of which see everything reversed, while the other two see things the right way up!
— from The Beauties of Nature, and the Wonders of the World We Live In by Lubbock, John, Sir

We could see in the distance, as the sun sank towards the west, the tall spires of the city of Lima high up on the hills, while far above it rose the lofty mountains called the Andes, on the tops of which snow ever rests.
— from Taking Tales: Instructive and Entertaining Reading by William Henry Giles Kingston

AT length our lover to a wood retired; To live concealed was what the youth desired; Lorn silence reigned, except from birds that sang, And dells that oft with sweetest echo rang.
— from Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Complete by Jean de La Fontaine

xl. 1); and these transferences of the prophets to the scenes of their operation were sometimes even regarded as bodily, as in the legend of Habakkuk taken to the lions' den to support Daniel.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

In Indiana, Illinois, and the other Western States educational reforms followed.
— from Expansion and Conflict by William Edward Dodd

Judge Rafalsky, a meditative and yet practical man of Jewish extraction but peculiarly American appearance, felt called upon to write a third opinion which should especially reflect his own cogitation and be a criticism on the majority as well as a slight variation from and addition to the points on which he agreed with Judge Marvin.
— from The Financier: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser