But they would have grounded near the house, they would not have carried packs, and they would have brought nobody with them. "The Keeper" by Henry Beam Piper

But no one of the occasions, on which it grounded its proceedings, now existed. "The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839)" by Thomas Clarkson

He had left them spare arms, great guns, ball, powder,- much powder,- and if he had seen fit to reserve some store he could say, with a clear conscience, that it was done only in the interests of peace and humanity, and because of doubts of their good faith,- how well grounded the blood shed this day upon the plains of Taliquo might testify! "The Story of Old Fort Loudon" by Charles Egbert Craddock