Eh?' 'Not one,' replied Master Bates, in a voice rendered husky by regret; 'not one.' 'Then what do you talk of?' replied Fagin angrily; 'what are you blubbering for?' ''Cause it isn't on the rec-ord, is it?' said Charley, chafed into perfect defiance of his venerable friend by the current of his regrets; ''cause it can't come out in the 'dictment; 'cause nobody will never know half of what he was.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

[Pg 676] The ventral thickening of the embryo now occupies rather more than half the circumference of the ovum.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

Unprepared for this turn in the conversation, Wynn hastened to explain that he did not refer to the pure aborigine, whose gradual extinction no one regretted more than himself, but to the mongrel, who inherited only the vices of civilization.
— from In the Carquinez Woods by Bret Harte

Marshall Islands Oceania, two archipelagic island chains of 29 atolls, each made up of many small islets, and five single islands in the North Pacific Ocean, about half way between Hawaii and Australia Mauritania Northern Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Senegal and Western Sahara Mauritius Southern Africa, island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar Mayotte Southern Indian Ocean, island in the Mozambique Channel, about half way between northern Madagascar and northern Mozambique Mexico Middle America, bordering the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, between Belize and the United States and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Guatemala and the United States Micronesia, Federated States of Oceania, island group in the North Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to Indonesia Moldova Eastern Europe, northeast of Romania Monaco Western Europe, bordering the Mediterranean Sea on the southern coast of France, near the border with Italy Mongolia Northern Asia, between China and Russia Montenegro Southeastern Europe, between the Adriatic Sea and Serbia Montserrat Caribbean, island in the Caribbean Sea, southeast of Puerto Rico Morocco Northern Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, between Algeria and Western Sahara Mozambique Southeastern Africa, bordering the Mozambique Channel, between South Africa and Tanzania Namibia Southern Africa, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Angola and South Africa
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Even now, on reaching my highest record with every prospect good, I dared not build too much on the chances of the white and treacherous ice which stretched one hundred and eighty nautical miles northward between me and the end.
— from The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary

Strangely enough, no one regrets much, personally, but all sure the others will!
— from Margarita's Soul: The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by Josephine Daskam Bacon

Marshall Islands Oceania, two archipelagic island chains of 29 atolls, each made up of many small islets, and five single islands in the North Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to Australia Mauritania Northern Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Senegal and Western Sahara Mauritius Southern Africa, island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar Mayotte Southern Africa, island in the Mozambique Channel, about one-half of the way from northern Madagascar to northern Mozambique Mexico Middle America, bordering the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, between Belize and the US and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Guatemala and the US Micronesia, Federated States of Oceania, island group in the North Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to Indonesia Midway Islands Oceania, atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, about one-third of the way from Honolulu to Tokyo Moldova Eastern Europe, northeast of Romania Monaco Western Europe, bordering the Mediterranean Sea on the southern coast of France, near the border with Italy Mongolia Northern Asia, between China and Russia Montenegro Southeastern Europe, between the Adriatic Sea and Serbia Montserrat Caribbean, island in the Caribbean Sea, southeast of Puerto Rico Morocco Northern Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, between Algeria and Western Sahara Mozambique Southeastern Africa, bordering the Mozambique Channel, between South Africa and Tanzania Namibia Southern Africa, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Angola and South Africa
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

My friend the editor not only rewarded me at the noble rate of a dime a line (5 d. ), thus assuring the hotel expenses for my stay in the city, but also gave me about an hour of his valuable time in talking about almost everything under the sun—mainly American.
— from Across America by Motor-cycle by C. K. Shepherd

The entire number of red men now concentrated on those plains and valleys, where winter scarcely exerts any severity of power, may be set down at 77,000 souls, leaving, from the official report of 1841, but 21,774 of the original estimated number of 1825, to be removed; exclusive of those west of the straits of Michilimachinac and St. Mary's.
— from The Indian in his Wigwam; Or, Characteristics of the Red Race of America From Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

The Praça de Dom Pedro itself, crowded almost day and night with people, busy and idle, is a typical Portuguese “place,” paved, as most of them are, by the strange wave pattern in black and white stone mosaic that gives to the Praça de Dom Pedro in Lisbon (the Rocio) the English name of “rolling motion square.”
— from Through Portugal by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume