England has greater counties— Their peace to hers is small. {49} Low hills, rich fields, calm rivers, In Essex seek them all,— Essex, where I that found them Found to lose them all!
— from Poems of To-Day: an Anthology by Various

the smell of the woods behind his prison reminded Peter of a place in the Woodbush, and one could read in every sentence the ache of exile.
— from Mr. Standfast by John Buchan

But it is true that locusts are comparatively rare in Egypt; so that while the meaning of the threat would be appreciated, familiarity would not have steeled them against it.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. (George Alexander) Chadwick

The basal calcareous [Pg 342] cup resembles, in essential structure, the valves of the capitulum; the chief difference being that in the former there is a larger proportion of animal matter or membranous layers.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin

Mr. Cole, in a letter to Mr. Steevens, speaks of the etching thus: “The copy pleases me infinitely; nothing can be more exact and like the copy I sent, and which, as well as I can recollect, is equally so to the original.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

The effect of these great hollowed and chiselled recesses is extremely striking; they are a proper vestibule to the dusky richness of the interior.
— from Old Continental Towns by Walter M. (Walter Matthew) Gallichan

We are, in fine, too fully warranted On moral grounds to strike at Bonaparte, If we at any crisis reckon it Expedient so to do.
— from The Dynasts: An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon by Thomas Hardy