The Arabian Edrisi portrays it under the name of the Gulf of Colzoum, and relates that vessels perished there in great numbers on the sandbanks and that no one would risk sailing in the night.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

It is not likely that all the aid that Spain could have given would have availed against the surging tide of Saracen invasion; but, as it happened, there was a quarrel at that time between Julian the governor of Ceuta and Roderick the King of Spain, which opened the door to the Arabs.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

Nor were the three barristers for the defence less illustrious: Newman Knowlys was appointed Recorder of London; John Gurney, one of the greatest of criminal advocates, rose to be a judge; and Alley, defender number three, was as astute a lawyer as any of the rest.
— from Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold by Horace Bleackley

Among these were the galleons of Calderon and Ricaldo, the Rita, San Marcos , and eleven other vessels.
— from By England's Aid; Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Long suites of apartments, whose walls are covered with brilliant and fantastic frescoes, open into one another by doors of cedar and cassia-wood; corridors flooded with soft radiance lead to other rooms lighted from crimson crystal domes, and baths which seem to have been fashioned from a single block of Paros marble; lofty balconies overhang mysterious gardens, and groves of cypress and rose trees, from which, through long perspectives of Moorish porticoes, the blue waters of the sea are seen sparkling in the sunlight beyond; and windows, terraces, balconies, kiosks, everything, brilliant with flowers, and everywhere cascades of water shooting into the air to fall back in filmy showers upon green turf and marble pavement; while in all directions there open up enchanting views of the Bosphorus, the cool breezes from whose surface impart a delicious freshness to every corner of the great building.
— from Constantinople, v. 1 (of 2) by Edmondo De Amicis

This was all the world to me until my sixth or seventh year, when perhaps I got a fleeting glimpse of Chicago, and realized that my world was pretty thin in settlement at least.
— from My Life by Josiah Flynt

Finally, they were to coast along New Guinea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, and return to France in 1803.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

Mr. Stuart also became his friend; but the stern gravity of countenance, and reserved, though perfectly well-bred and even kindly manner of the stranger forbade close intimacy.
— from Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader: A Tale of the Pacific by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

“I got our good ole calf all ready to be tied up.
— from Penrod and Sam by Booth Tarkington

Upstairs we are shewn the secret closet that opens into the great outside chimney already referred to.
— from Nooks and Corners of Shropshire by H. Thornhill (Henry Thornhill) Timmins

"Do not feel it any more, sir; say what you wish, as you would have said it under any other circumstances; and pray believe this, the idea never occurs to me, that I have ground of complaint as regards the property; never.
— from Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope