3922 In the south-west corner of Asia Minor, bounded on the north and north-east by the mountains Messagis and Cadmus, dividing it from Lydia and Phrygia, and adjoining to Phrygia and Lycia on the south-east. 3923 Caria.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

I soon made another comfortable discovery; I found that I had been riding for the last two hours in a perfect wilderness, in utter contempt of what two pioneer wheels had made for a highway; nor could I tell the north from the south, nor the east from the west, having foolishly enough turned the horse round and round in order to gaze at the stars.
— from The Kentuckian in New-York; or, The Adventures of Three Southerns. Volume 1 (of 2) by William Alexander Caruthers

But perhaps Mrs Arnold could do it for you.”
— from Three Girls from School by L. T. Meade

They are all honest; and they steal nothing, even in Kuching, though the Malays and Chinamen do it for them."
— from Four Young Explorers; Or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Oliver Optic

Communications China Telephones - main lines in use: 350.433 million (2005) Telephones - mobile cellular: 437.48 million (2006) Telephone system: general assessment: domestic and international services are increasingly available for private use; unevenly distributed domestic system serves principal cities, industrial centers, and many towns; China continues to develop its telecommunications infrastructure, and is partnering with foreign providers to expand its global reach; three of China's six major telecommunications operators are part of an international consortium which, in December 2006, signed an agreement with Verizon Business to build the first next-generation optical cable system directly linking the US mainland and China domestic: interprovincial fiber-optic trunk lines and cellular telephone systems have been installed; mobile cellular subscribership is increasing rapidly; a domestic satellite system with 55 earth stations is in place international: country code - 86; satellite earth stations - 5 Intelsat (4 Pacific Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), 1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean region) and 1 Inmarsat (Pacific and Indian Ocean regions); several international fiber-optic links to Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Russia, and Germany (2000) Radio broadcast stations: AM 369, FM 259, shortwave 45 (1998)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Still, as we can rarely, or never, trace the causes with any fullness or precision, a great deal of our reasoning, as, e.g. , about men and camels, does in fact trust to the relative permanence of natural Kinds as defined by co-inhering attributes.
— from Logic: Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

To throw away the lives of my own men and cut down innocent folk?
— from Chippinge Borough by Stanley John Weyman

" At that moment a Chinaman, dressed in full national costume, stepped out into the middle of the central nave, and, advancing slowly towards the royal group, did obeisance to Her Majesty.
— from Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey