No man ever admits the unhealthiness of the place he dwells in (unless he is going away from it), and I shall therefore, I have no doubt, be at issue with the inhabitants of St. Louis, in questioning the perfect salubrity of its climate, and in hinting that I think it must rather dispose to fever, in the summer and autumnal seasons.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

" "I can't get away from it at Redmond, Rilla.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

I do not think the elegant female with her bad Italian was a perfect product, any more than I think the slum woman talking gin and funerals is a perfect product; alas!
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

“Life's cares they are comforts”—a maxim laid down By the Bard, what d'ye call him, that wore the black gown; And faith I agree with th' old prig to a hair, For a big-belly'd bottle's a heav'n of a care.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

They call it glasing , and find it amongst the shallows and upon the very shore.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

At the beginning of his reign the cavalry defeat was sustained by his viceroys at the Granicus, and forthwith Ionia Aeolis, both the Phrygias, Lydia, and all Caria 469 except Halicarnassus were occupied by his foe; soon after, Halicarnassus also was captured, as well as all the littoral as far as Cilicia.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Naked nymphs: Greece: and for instance all the people that lived then.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

He there tells us, that certain Carthaginians, having crossed the Atlantic Sea without the Straits of Gibraltar, and sailed a very long time, discovered at last a great and fruitful island, all covered over with wood, and watered with several broad and deep rivers, far remote from all terra firma; and that they, and others after them, allured by the goodness and fertility of the soil, went thither with their wives and children, and began to plant a colony.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

"Do you think that Ben would go?" asked Fred in an earnest tone.
— from The Awakening of the Desert by Julius Charles Birge

And so swift thou rollest along these liquid seas, The poor finite mind amazed but dimly sees The splendor of thy far panoramic glory, And failest in an attempt to tell thy story.
— from Canadian Battlefields, and Other Poems by J. R. (John Richardson) Wilkinson

This writer professes great admiration for it, and says he "never heard the song of the Mekka water-carriers without emotion," though it consists of only three notes: The translation of the line is, "Paradise and forgiveness be the lot of him who gave you this water!"
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, August, 1880 by Various

The advice which was actually given and followed is a matter of greater consequence, than the quarter from which it came.
— from Life of John Knox, Fifth Edition, Vol. 1 of 2 Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland by Thomas M'Crie

It is plain speculating in exchange—there is no getting away from it, and yet this practice of selling finance-bills gives such an opportunity to the exchange manager shrewd enough to read the situation aright to make money, that many of the big houses go in for it to a large extent.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

A large portion of the waters brought down by the Ohio come from its two great affluents flowing in almost alongside each other on the southern bank, just above Paducah, the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers.
— from America, Volume 6 (of 6) by Joel Cook

Communications Saint Barthelemy Telephone system: general assessment: fully integrated access domestic: direct dial capability with both fixed and wireless systems international: country code - 590; undersea fiber-optic cable provides voice and data connectivity to Puerto Rico and Guadeloupe Internet country code: .bl; note - .gp, the ccTLD for Guadeloupe, and .fr, the ccTLD for France, might also be encountered Transportation Saint Barthelemy Airports: 1 Airports - with paved runways: total: 1 under 914 m: 1 Transportation - note: nearest airport for international flights is Princess Juliana International Airport (SXM) located in Sint Maarten (Netherlands Antilles) Military Saint Barthelemy Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually: male: 21 female: 20 (2008 est.)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

I knew that Kam-i-ah-kan and Pu-pu-mox-mox had sent a body of warriors to cut off my party, and that we had to guard against falling into an ambush; but an Indian has not patience to wait many days for such a purpose, and I thought, looking to all these things, that the line of safety was to move over the Cœur d’Alene Pass.”
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

Or you can do it with a magnifying glass if there is a good sun shining, by making the sunlight pass through the glass on to a small amount of punk, and in a few seconds it will set it smouldering; and you must then gently blow it up into a glow, and finally into a flame, with which you can light the "kindling."
— from Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns by Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron

After having carried on these antics for some time, Knipperdolling dashed into the market-place, cast himself down on the ground, and fell into an ecstasy.
— from Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould