There Nature has woven a natural selvage, and the eye rises by just gradations from the low shrubs of the shore to the highest trees.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

They were brought to England by Lord Prudhoe, and now stand at the entrance of the Gallery of Antiquities in the British Museum.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

[887] It is true that some nanja-trees and rocks are not situated around the ertnatulunga; they are scattered over different parts of the tribal territory.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Accordingly there ensued a great slaughter of the cavalry, cooped up as it was in a narrow space around the elephants.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Certain interests are common to all parts of a nation, such as the enactment of its general laws and the maintenance of its foreign relations.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The generosity of many of these wealthy people, their own simplicity, good humor, and charm, are not safeguards against the envy and the hatred of those who struggle [Pg 149] hard for a living wage and for a security in life which is harder still to get.
— from People of Destiny: Americans as I saw them at Home and Abroad by Philip Gibbs

Agatha Nesbitt, sitting at the end of the terrace, seemed to read his thoughts, and beckoned him to come to her.
— from The Red House Mystery The Piccadilly Novels by Duchess

Here is a news story about that event, taken from the November 11, 1958, Dallas Morning News : "A Dallas Committee for Economic Development–the first of its kind in the nation–has been founded at Southern Methodist University.
— from The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot

If his abilities or opportunities are not such as to enable him to earn for his father posthumous honours (such as the Emperor confers upon the ancestors of those who have deserved well of the State) it is probably within his power to preserve intact the inherited property, to keep the family temple and tombs in good repair, to carry out with propriety and reverence the orthodox ancestral rites during his own lifetime and to provide for their continuance during future generations by bringing up a family of his own.
— from Lion and Dragon in Northern China by Johnston, Reginald Fleming, Sir

The male excretory organ is probosciformed and capable of the most varied movements; it is single and medial; it is seated (in the one instance in which this point can be safely judged of) at the extremity of the abdomen, and therefore near the normal position of the anus; in all these respects there is a very great difference from other Crustaceans, in which the male organs are laterally double, and are not seated at the extremity of the abdomen.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

It was a box three feet long, twenty-six inches in depth, and eighteen inches wide, covered with red morocco leather, and neatly sewed around the edges.
— from Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore

—A pregnant lady sometimes suffers severely from "fidgets"; it generally affects her feet and legs, especially at night, so as to entirely destroy her sleep; she cannot lie still; she every few minutes moves, tosses and tumbles about—first on one side, then on the other.
— from Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics by B. G. (Benjamin Grant) Jefferis

Altogether, however, these remains are not such as to enable us to define, with any degree of certainty, the nature and character of the Main Walls of a Saxon Cathedral, and are, therefore, not available for our present purpose.
— from The Seven Periods of English Architecture Defined and Illustrated by Edmund Sharpe

Thumb, Thimble, and Nod sat all three, each with his little heap of house-stuff before him, which it seemed hateful now to have, staring through the doorway.
— from The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare