Of the immense domain fifteen miles wide on both sides of the Kennebec River, extending from the vicinity of Merry Meeting Bay to the [289] southerly line of the town of Norridgwock, he was the owner of one twenty-fourth part.
— from The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution by James Henry Stark

This I learnt before I had known Rataziaev even for three days.
— from Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Kalapawili Ridge extends from the summit of Hanakauhi Mountain eastward around the head of Kipahulu Valley to the tiny lake, Wai Anapanapa.
— from Hawaii National Park: A Guide for the Haleakala Section, Island of Maui, Hawaii by George Cornelius Ruhle

As a kangaroo rat emerges from the burrow a reason for the relatively large size of the opening is seen in the fact that, kangaroolike, the animal maintains a partially upright position.
— from Life History of the Kangaroo Rat by Walter P. (Walter Penn) Taylor

One phrase I well remember, his kindly regret expressed for those whose lot is not cast among the Melanesian islands.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

The food is prepared in a kitchen reserved expressly for this purpose, and consists of soaked biscuits, vegetables, meat, bullock’s head, pluck, and sometimes a little beef.
— from The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

Free Staters were in possession of the western end of Bester's Ridge, where Waggon Hill dips steeply down from the curiously tree-fringed shoulder in bold bluffs to a lower neck, and thence on one side to the valley in which Bester's Farm lies amid trees, and on the other to broad veldt that is dominated by Blaauwbank (or Rifleman's Ridge), and enfiladed by Telegraph Hill—both Boer positions having guns of long range mounted on them; and at the same time Transvaalers, mostly Heidelberg men, had gained a footing on the eastern end of the same ridge where boulders in Titanic masses, matted together by roots of mimosa trees, rise cliff-like from the plain where Klip River, emerging from thorny thickets, bends northward to loop miles of fertile meadow-land before flowing back into the narrow gorge past Intombi Spruit Camp.
— from Four Months Besieged: The Story of Ladysmith by Henry H. S. Pearse

You wouldn't leave—them?" "Indeed I would," Kate returned exultantly, feeling that she had scored.
— from Elsie Marley, Honey by Joslyn Gray