, bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Guatemala and Honduras Equatorial Guinea Western Africa, bordering the Bight of Biafra, between Cameroon and Gabon Eritrea Eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Djibouti and Sudan Estonia Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Finland, between Latvia and Russia Ethiopia Eastern Africa, west of Somalia European Union Europe between the North Atlantic Ocean in the west and Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine to the east
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Grace looked at Simon Jefferson; she also looked at Fran, but her compressed lips and reproving eye expressed none of Abbott's gladness.
— from Fran by J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge) Ellis

“EUPHRASIE ROUSSELOT” He read the letter again, repeated, “Euphrasie... Euphrasie...” and raised his head once more.
— from The Crystal Stopper by Maurice Leblanc

Do not the strains, dissipated into breaths, reverberate from distant flowers, and float, swollen by echo, round the swan-bosom, which, blissfully dissolving, swims on pinions, and draw it on from flood to flood of melody, and sink with it in the distant flowers, which a cloud of fragrances fills, and does not in the fragrant dusk the soul glow again like a ruddy evening, ere it sets in bliss?
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. II. by Jean Paul

If perchance we could now dig up and galvanize into life a contemporary of Julius Cæsar, who was present and saw him cross the Rubicon, and could tell us how he looked and what he said, we should listen with somewhat of the greedy wonder with which [15] the boys of Ridgefield listened to Lieutenant Smith, when of a Saturday afternoon, seated on the stoop of Keeler's tavern, he discoursed upon the discovery of America by Columbus, Braddock's defeat, and the old French war; the latter a real epic, embellished with romantic episodes of Indian massacres and captivities.
— from Peter Parley's Own Story From the Personal Narrative of the Late Samuel G. Goodrich, ("Peter Parley") by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

The robbers were lying all ready, expecting every moment to see their victims coming round the corner a few yards away, when a shower of huge stones fell on their heads, killing half the band.
— from The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

As early as the year 1825 John Stickney established [Pg 232] the Louisville Intelligence Office on Main Street, which was a sort of labor and real estate exchange.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various

Can it be said of such, as the two last ,— Augurium, ratio est, et conjectura futuri ?
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 5 (of 8) by Richard Hurd