At last, having collected enough to keep life in him, he departed for Europe, and tracked his enemies from city to city, working his way in any menial capacity, but never overtaking the fugitives.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Romans were famous for their wonderful roads, which extended from camp to camp, from city to city, all over the country.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

The assistant prosecutor shook his head negatively, without lifting his eyes from “Cain”; the counsel for the defence unexpectedly stirred and, clearing his throat, asked: “Tell me, doctor, can you from the dimensions of the wound form any theory as to . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

If mean and improper persons are frequently appointed trustees; and if proper courts of inspection and account have not yet been established for controlling their conduct, and for reducing the tolls to what is barely sufficient for executing the work to be done by them; the recency of the institution both accounts and apologizes for those defects, of which, by the wisdom of parliament, the greater part may, in due time, be gradually remedied.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Ez-Zagel! echoed from cliff to cliff.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

By the industry and zeal of the Europeans, it has been widely diffused to the most distant shores of Asia and Africa; and by the means of their colonies has been firmly established from Canada to Chili, in a world unknown to the ancients.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Then by means of the ‘scalpel for the plastic operation’ (ἀναρραφικοῦ σμιλίου) we make the first incision called the ‘arrow-shaped’ a little above the [Pg 46] hairs which are normal, extending from canthus to canthus and penetrating only the depth of the skin.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

The eldest of those princes soon complained, that he was defrauded of his just proportion of the spoils of their murdered kinsmen; and though he might yield to the superior guilt and merit of Constantius, he exacted from Constans the cession of the African provinces, as an equivalent for the rich countries of Macedonia and Greece, which his brother had acquired by the death of Dalmatius.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

In the evening, he invariably repaired to the cottage of Gerard, beneath whose humble roof he found every female charm that can fascinate, and conversation that stimulated his intelligence.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

A long line of them, a long ellipse following closely the curving of the cliff.
— from Astounding Stories, May, 1931 by Various

For a brief space, as I trickled down through England from cathedral to cathedral, my Scotch companion was my chiefest comfort, the mere sight of his black, rising-sunshiny face cheering me as it looked down upon me from the luggage rack of a third-class carriage.
— from The Joys of Being a Woman, and Other Papers by Winifred Margaretta Kirkland

Transfigured by the radiance of silver lamps and myriads of tapers, enshrined in garlands of roses, veiled in clouds of incense, the statue in its niche lent a charm to the gaudy ornaments of the high altar, and all the tinsel draperies extending from column to column along the aisle.
— from Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 by Various

The gray-headed man who had left a comfortable home to travel at his own expense from city to city, from town to town, toiling unceasingly to bear to the world the solemn warning of the judgment near, was sneeringly denounced as a fanatic, a liar, a speculating knave.
— from The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White

CHARLES M. SCHWAB Head of the Bethlehem Steel Works, who has been appointed Director General of the Emergency Fleet Corporation to carry out the Government's shipbuilding program (© Harris & Ewing ) JOHN D. RYAN President of the Anaconda Copper Company, who has been appointed Director of Aircraft Production for the United States Army MAP OF PALESTINE AND MESOPOTAMIA, WHERE TWO BRITISH ARMIES ARE AIMING AT BAGDAD RAILWAY TEUTONIZING THE BLACK SEA Save for the reports which have come to hand denoting the steady progress of the British forces in Palestine and Mesopotamia, little of importance has occurred in the Near East.
— from Current History, Vol. VIII, No. 3, June 1918 A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times by Various

Money buys a great deal of clutter that had far better be left in the shops; money buys a vast amount of superfluous stuck-on ornaments, that were better left off, but money does not and can not buy good taste—an eye for color, thoughtful care for the general comfort, a quick wit, and common sense.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, January 1885, No. 4 by Chautauqua Institution

He was then alone, and it was with much simple surprise that he turned his large hazel eyes from corner to corner of the unfamiliar room.
— from The Last of the Barons — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

If the blows be exactly proportioned each to the length of the side of the table on which it is directed, the ball will run exactly from corner to corner, and in the same time that it would have passed over each side by the blow given in the direction of that side.
— from Letters on Astronomy in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connection with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers by Denison Olmsted