On the brow of the mountain yonder is perched, like a swallow's nest, a lonely convent of nuns.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

at 15 miles we passed a large creek on N. side a little above it's entrance; there is but little running water in this creek at present, it's bed is about 30 yds.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I emerged bleeding and with torn clothes upon the lip of a long creek opening northward.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

So Chanticleer began to build a little carriage of nutshells: and when it was finished, Partlet jumped into it and sat down, and bid Chanticleer harness himself to it and draw her home.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

Now I do not know whether it was that they had eaten till they were too fat, or whether they had become proud, but they would not go home on foot, and the cock had to build a little carriage of nut-shells.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

In one place we came upon a large company of naked natives, of both sexes and all ages, amusing themselves with the national pastime of surf-bathing.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

It was true she could not accuse Lady Caroline of not leaving him to himself, for she was taking no notice of him at all, but that did not help.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Any other woman, a less close observer, not knowing Anna before, or not having thought as Darya Alexandrovna had been thinking on the road, would not have noticed anything special in Anna.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Cheap as they are, they are a poorer speculation than even corner lots in a lithographic city of Nebraska or Oregon.
— from Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Horace Greeley

While out walking with Don Luis and his wife, I had noticed a spot that I remarked at the time might be very easily converted into an excellent sand and gravel pit; while only a few days prior to the eventful morning when Don Esteban de Meñdouça and his party had burst in upon us with the news of the negro outbreak, Don Luis had received a large consignment of new sacks destined to receive the crop of coffee, cocoa, and other products that were at that moment coming forward upon the estate.
— from A Middy of the King: A Romance of the Old British Navy by Harry Collingwood

[Footnote 1: The author here continues with a long catalogue of names including some one hundred and fifty other ladies of the Court, belonging to various noble houses of France.
— from Memoirs and Historical Chronicles of the Courts of Europe Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of France, Wife of Henri IV; of Madame de Pompadour of the Court of Louis XV; and of Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, Wife of Henri II by Mme. Du Hausset

Occupying a place in the aisle opposite that which contains Duke Berthhold’s monument, is a long catalogue of names inscribed on marble tablets; those of the brave men who fell in 1798, vainly resisting foreign invasion.
— from A Ride on Horseback to Florence Through France and Switzerland. Vol. 2 of 2 Described in a Series of Letters by a Lady by Augusta Macgregor Holmes

The duke was walking one day in his garden, when he observed a Latin copy of Newton's Principia, lying on the grass, and supposing it had been brought from his own library, called some one to carry it back to its place.
— from Curiosities of Human Nature by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

The antialbumid, however, split off in these hydrolytic changes, like the antialbumid formed by the action of dilute acids at 100° C., is characterized by a correspond­ingly high content of carbon and a low content of nitrogen.
— from On Digestive Proteolysis Being the Cartwright Lectures for 1894 by R. H. (Russell Henry) Chittenden

There are now about 180 angling societies in and around London, consisting of nearly 5,000 members, besides a large number of anglers who do not belong to any society; consequently fish have been becoming more and more scarce year after year, and the increase of population and pollution of rivers have also tended to drive them away.
— from Red Palmer: A Practical Treatise on Fly Fishing by James Tayler

I even think that he still retains a lingering conviction of Norman’s innocence, and is, like myself, bewildered and uncertain what step to take, or what to do.
— from Merkland; or, Self Sacrifice by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant