150 When Stack’s transit came in sight, Sandy placed the stadia rod upright so that it could be seen against the skyline and started the slow business of moving it about in response to the surveyor’s hand signals.
— from Black Treasure Sandy Steele Adventures #1 by Robert Leckie

They have a very pleasant look, for they will stop in the road and watch a person very attentively for some time without moving, with their necks raised up, so that it causes laughter to see their serenity; but sometimes they suddenly take fright and run off to inaccessible places with their loads.”
— from The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León

Finally, the doctor pulled up a chair and did something that caused the head of the bed to raise up so that I could look him in the eye.
— from Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow

The mountains towering round us shaped themselves into castles and cathedrals of carved marble, their façades, grey by day, glittering white and polished under the magic of the moon.
— from My Friend the Chauffeur by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Down for twenty feet the space remained unchanged, so that I could easily reach from rock to rock.
— from The Mountains of Oregon by W. G. (William Gladstone) Steel

Read the names, sir, read 'un so that I can hear; quick, for he may be back along."
— from A Gentleman-at-Arms: Being Passages in the Life of Sir Christopher Rudd, Knight by Herbert Strang