(w. d. and, more rarely, a. ) (local) ‘ at ,’ near, by, in, on, upon, with, before, next to, as far as, up to, into, toward : (temporal) at, at the time of, near, in, on, to, until : (causal) at, to, through : (source) from : (instrumental) by .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

“Can you explain why it is that the sun first rises and then sets?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

A TRAGIC ACTOR A TRANSGRESSION SMALL FRY
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

She is an oldish woman, with a bloated countenance, and a nose like a parrot’s beak set in the middle of it; her fat little hands (she is as sleek as a church rat) and her shapeless, slouching figure are in keeping with the room that reeks of misfortune, where hope is reduced to speculate for the meanest stakes.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

They were astonished that the one who uttered the cry could travel so far in such a short time.
— from Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal

The king of Hungary, by two solemn embassies, brought his cause against his queen and his nobles before my tribunal; and I venture to say further, that the fame of the tribune alarmed the soldan of Babylon.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

His brother, who is a member of the same firm His brother, a member of the same firm Trafalgar, which was Nelson's last battle Trafalgar, Nelson's last battle As positive statement is more concise than negative, and the active voice more concise than the passive, many of the examples given under Rules 11 and 12 illustrate this rule as well.
— from The Elements of Style by William Strunk

For these duties, however heavy, are still voluntary, and are paid by the merchant only in proportion to the quantity he buys; and as he buys only in proportion to his sale, he himself gives the law its particular application; but the farmer who is obliged to pay his rent at stated times, whether he sells or not, cannot wait till he can get his own price for his commodity: even if he is not forced to sell for mere subsistence, he must sell to pay the taxes; so that it is frequently the heaviness of the tax that keeps the price of corn low.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Then she felt herself compelled to obey, and went back and got her old hat and followed him down the stairs into the street.
— from Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices, and Other Stories by Anthony Trollope

Unfortunately, the only valuable she possessed was a cow, the produce of which formed the chief support of the family; four young children, and a boy of about fourteen, whose brains were generally supposed more or less oddly constructed than those of his neighbours, depended on this supply for their daily support.
— from Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby

Thus a small perforation or vent is left for the safety fuse, a woven cylinder containing gunpowder, and protected by a coating 259 of tar.
— from The Subterranean World by G. (Georg) Hartwig

Red, however, went on to say that, since Ring was such a mighty man that he could do everything, it had occurred to him to advise the King to ask him to search for these treasures, and come back with them before Christmas; in return the King should promise him his daughter.
— from The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

So they rescued themselves from the sad fate that seemed to await them by slaying their captors, acting on the same principle that Stanley did when the natives on the Congo tried to make “meat” of him and his companions.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 06, June, 1880 by Various

At length he picked up the slight form of Woolly Billy (who was now in a drugged stupor from which he would not awake for hours), and slung him over his left shoulder.
— from The Ledge on Bald Face by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

After that war they so far exceeded local demand that cattle drives on a much larger scale than ever before attempted, got under way.
— from Fort Concho: Its Why and Wherefore by James N. (James Noble) Gregory

It is a case of reversed cannibalism, the stronger falling to the weaker."
— from The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries by Francis Rolt-Wheeler