By encreasing the hollowness of a wide carriage road, much beyond the utility of form, the margins might no doubt be brought into a travellable state; whereas, of a flat road, in a wet season, every part, from side to side becomes equally untravellable.

The bold Buccaneer who sailed the seven seas in all their varied humours had become a whimpering, parrotless child.

She wanted to go, however she decided against it. (proscribed)

Riemannian geometry has found many applications in science, the most spectacular of these being the theory of relativity.[…]Every Riemannian geometry has geodesics, which are defined as the shortest curves joining two points.