41. 2. Let my prayer be directed as incense, in thy sight : by prayers are understood not only prayers, but all our desires, thoughts and comportmens, and thereupon Rabbi Eliezer , sonne of Rabbi Simeon , the author of Zohar , making his prayer, doth thus paraphrase.
— from A Discovrse of Fire and Salt Discovering Many Secret Mysteries as well Philosophicall, as Theologicall by Blaise de Vigenère

On the walls of the great temples of Luxor and the Ramesseum at Thebes, as well as on the wall of the temple of Abydos and in the main hall of the great rock-hewn temple of Abu-Simbel, in Nubia, is carved the “Epic of Pentaur,” the royal Egyptian scribe of Rameses II: My king, his arms are mighty, his heart is firm.
— from Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by Edward MacDowell

Rushing down the canyon’s slanting granites under great headway, the river encounters shelves of rock projecting from its bottom.
— from Yosemite National Park, California by United States. National Park Service