On the summit of a table-land, rising abruptly several hundred feet above the shore of the bay, there is a lake of considerable size and very great depth, and which apparently receives a very inadequate supply from the elevated land on which it is situated.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

As a humorist she takes high rank: there are scenes in her novels, as well as in her records of travel, which are marked by a real and vigorous, if somewhat masculine, fun.
— from Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

The Advance and Rescue, American vessels in search of sir John Franklin, were completely fastened in the ice.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

And sure enough that was exactly what did happen; the younger man, although quite hopelessly, worshipped her in a romantic and very ideal sort of way."
— from Tinman by Tom Gallon

But for the same reason both are in a rudimentary and very imperfect state of development.
— from An American at Oxford by John Corbin

He seemed quite in his element, and wielded his ax with a regularity and vigor I should scarcely have expected from a man whom I was accustomed to see performing the somewhat effeminate duties of a valet-de-chambre .
— from Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten by Marie Corelli

It is well known that in the Albanian Societies that after May 1913 were engaged at Constantinople and Sofia, at Rome and Vienna, in striving for the independence of the country it was not the Albanians themselves who had the chief word.
— from The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Henry Baerlein

There was a great deal of politeness and good feeling, and if they were not Capi and Remi and Vitalis in " Sans Famille ," it was merely because their circumstances were different.
— from A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') by Sara Jeannette Duncan

I myself, duly appreciating the merits of Chloe, was a little jealous for my own noble Dash, whom she resembled, with a slight inferiority of size and colouring; much such a resemblance as Viola, I suppose, bore to Sebastian.
— from The Widow's Dog by Mary Russell Mitford

Dolben, an energetic man who had fought for his king during the Civil War, was made Dean soon after the Restoration, and on the very day of his installation the first fabric fund was instituted out of the Abbey revenues, a very inadequate sum, as it proved, for the { 14} expenses.
— from Westminster Abbey by Smith, A. Murray, Mrs.

This, in its present state, measures more than 10 feet in height, and its head—perhaps later than the shaft—which is sculptured with a ring and cross, a chalice and missal, and the famous arms of Man, and surmounted above all by a Crucifixion and Virgin and Child, is a rare and very interesting survival.
— from The Isle of Man by Joseph E. (Joseph Ernest) Morris