note no habría andado , p. 8, 6. 100-10: echases la misa en el puchero : (should throw the mass into the kettle) should stay at home and not go to mass .
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

its head at no great distance from the Yellow Stone River The Countrey about this river as described yesterday we took the Meredian altitude 59° 50' 0" back observation and found the Latd.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Akim Petrovitch chuckled respectfully in unison, though, indeed, with evident pleasure and no suspicion that his Excellency was beginning to nourish in his heart a new gnawing anxiety.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Tom has a natural genius for religion.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

But when he had a nice girl, he found that he was incapable of pushing the desired development.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Those runs head at no great distance in the plains and pass thro of timber to the river.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

they take their rise in the river hills at no great distance.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

And him a new guest and wanting to stay!
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Some men will fish all day and not have a bite, and some people will try their whole lives to catch happiness and not get any more than a nibble.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

No: because the mails are very irregular between here and New Guinea.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Now it was on one side and now on the other, until I began to feel as if we were the answer to the riddle I had so often been asked in my childhood, the mysterious "What is it that goes round and round the house and never gets in?"
— from Two Pilgrims' Progress; from fair Florence, to the eternal city of Rome by Joseph Pennell

The farm stood in a sheltered angle of the hill at no great distance from its summit.
— from London to Ladysmith via Pretoria by Winston Churchill

He wrote a life of Canning, and he brought out an annotated edition of the British poets; but he achieved no great success.
— from An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope by Anthony Trollope

The elder Mr. Howard was gardener to Sir Hans Sloane; his brother having a natural genius for p. 49 mechanics, became a clockmaker, and made the clock in the Old Church, in 1761, for the sum of £50.
— from Chelsea, in the Olden & Present Times by George Bryan

right here, and not go pricing around any more.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

"As the Stamp Act," he wrote to his wife, "is at length repealed, I am willing you should have a new gown, which you may suppose I did not send sooner as I knew you would not like to be finer than your neighbours unless in a gown of your own spinning.
— from Franklin: A Sketch by John Bigelow

Let me stay here, and not go forth any more."
— from Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy

The canvasback ducks, with their dark red heads and necks, grunted as they flew; the wings of the golden-eye whistled, the scaup purred, the [Pg 75] black ducks, and the mallards with emerald-green heads, quacked, the pintails whimpered—the air was full of duck-notes.
— from Wild Folk by Samuel Scoville

She was gazing down the lane which wound its way round the fields and distant houses and now gave a little cry of dismay.
— from The Riddle of the Purple Emperor by Mary E. Hanshew