With Yuranigh's assistance we hit upon an excellent line of route, Availing ourselves of a grassy valley descending from Mount Faraday, just so far as to avoid the rocky crooked part, and then crossing and cutting through a piece of scrub directly to the point of easy ascent, we thus made a good road into the valley, and arrived in good time, notwithstanding the rain, at the rock of my bivouac.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell
"Dark hair," he nodded, Availing himself of a certain latitude which the somewhat vague adjective allowed.
"A Poached Peerage"
William Magnay
None appeared to feel humiliated in Availing themselves of its advantages, since all the supposed cost of the provisions was charged and paid for.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou