Teresa, full fraught with the wily injunctions of her confederate, took the field, and opened the campaign with such remarkable sourness in her aspect when Ferdinand appeared, that her young lady could not help taking notice of her affected chagrin, and asked the reason of such apparent alteration in her way of thinking.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

It was the first allusion they had yet again made, needing any other hitherto so little; but when she replied, after having given him the news, that she was by no means satisfied with such a trifle as the climax to so special a suspense, she almost set him wondering if she hadn’t even a larger conception of singularity for him than he had for himself.
— from The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James

I'm grateful for all the happiness you gave me in the past."
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

side it is also perpendicular for about three hundred yards above the pitch where it is then broken by the discharge of a small ravine, down which the buffaloe have a large beaten road to the water, for it is but in very few places that these anamals can obtain water near this place owing to the steep and inaccessible banks.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

As descendants of old English nobles still cherish in the traditions of their houses how that this king or that king tarried a day with some favored ancestor three hundred years ago, no doubt the descendants of the woman of Samaria, living there in Shechem, still refer with pardonable vanity to this conversation of their ancestor, held some little time gone by, with the Messiah of the Christians.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

The wheat-crop ripening ere the brood Were strong enough to take their flight, Aware how perilous their plight, The lark went out to search for food, And told her young to listen well, And keep a constant sentinel.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

The water is rather shoal near the shore, having but one fathom depth at one hundred yards distance, two fathoms at two hundred yards; and when I sounded here, the waters of the Lake were very high.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

For about two hundred yards his speed seemed to defy his pursuers; but, getting entangled in a thicket, he was captured.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

As soon as she was well off from the wind, we filled away the head yards, braced all up sharp, set the foresail and trysail, and left our anchorage well astern, giving the point a good berth.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

"I should like to know who you are first, and to hear your news afterwards."
— from The Golden Web by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Considering the natural resources of this Archipelago, (some of which, especially the Conchylia, [109] far surpass in richness of colour, beauty, and gracefulness of form anything that has yet been met with in any part of the globe,) the inauguration of this small collection may yet prove the foundation of one of the most magnificent and marvellous museums of natural history, provided the laudable intention 354.png 344 of the founder receive adequate support; and the work, commenced as a labour of love, be continued and promoted with energy and perseverance.
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

And with the Missioner had come Ladue, the Frenchman, who could send a bullet through the head of a running fox at two hundred yards four times out of five.
— from God's Country—And the Woman by James Oliver Curwood

And let me thank you now for all the happiness you have given me, and for the memory of you, which I shall have in my heart for always.”
— from The Master's Violin by Myrtle Reed

So then, we must go up in our searching from external obedience all alongst, till we arrive at the inward fountain of Christ dwelling in us by faith, and then have ye found true religion indeed.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

"In my previous confession I mixed truth and falsehood, and to explain myself fully and to help you to a right understanding of my wife's act, I shall have to start afresh and speak as if I had already told you nothing."
— from The Circular Study by Anna Katharine Green

An avalanche had carried it bodily away for about three hundred yards, leaving only a steep and impassable slope covered with loose rocks and snow.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 11 (of 15), Roman by Charles Morris

We commenced our fire at two hundred yards, but soon lessened the distance to one hundred.
— from Audubon and His Journals, Volume 2 (of 2) by John James Audubon