I have always been opposed to those conditions; first, because they are unusual, unnecessary and dangerous; unusual, because no city can be named permitting such a nuisance; unnecessary, because one track, or, to be liberal, two tracks, with spurs to the warehouses on the west and the wholesale or commission houses on the east, where the conditions permit it, would be ample, under the control of an intelligent company or management, for all the purposes of trade and commerce; dangerous, as experience has shown: the killed and injured on this interlocked system, intensified by Supervening and dense fogs, speak only by groans and death-knells.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
They were intended for the Pantheon of Paris, but, the age of reason Supervening, they were not sent.
"The South of France--East Half"
Charles Bertram Black
At the end of the straggling village stands the church with its square tower, a lofty grey stone building, with bits of fine decorated architecture about it, but much of churchwarden Gothic Supervening.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes