ALSO SEARCHES FOR A SHORTER ROUTE TO INDIA AND FINDS THE MAINLAND OF NORTH AMERICA CABOT TAKING POSSESSION OF NORTH AMERICA FOR THE KING OF ENGLAND
— from A Beginner's History by William H. (William Harrison) Mace

Range.—North America; breeds in the interior from Minnesota and British Columbia north to Alaska; winters from British Columbia and Virginia south to South America; only a migrant on northeast Atlantic coast to Labrador.
— from Color Key to North American Birds with bibliographical appendix by Frank M. (Frank Michler) Chapman

But none of her arguments being admitted by her lord, and as Wallace did not support them by a word, she was obliged to make a merit of necessity, and consent to her husband being their companion.
— from The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

As early as the eighth century of our era the Moors of northern Africa crossed to Spain and made the Iberian peninsula a Moorish califate or kingdom.
— from The Mentor: Beautiful Buildings of the World, Serial no. 33 by Clarence Ward

It was a revelation to me, this of the wondrous power of language, and of all the lessons I unconsciously learned at that early age it was perhaps the one that I most readily and thoroughly assimilated, being the most congenial to my own nature, and corresponding to its potential needs.
— from From Memory's Shrine: The Reminscences of Carmen Sylva by Carmen Sylva

That it is worthy of being painted at all depends upon its being the means of nourishment and chastisement to men, or the dwelling place of imaginary gods.
— from Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 by John Ruskin

They soon perceived that they were not only beyond their own limits, but beyond those of the company from which they derived their title; but it was now the month of November, and consequently too late in the season again to put to sea in search of a new habitation.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

To these "Memoirs" I was contributing a mass of notes and comments throwing some light on certain personalities, on certain facts.
— from My Memoirs by Marguerite Steinheil

"I say," he said suddenly, "I wonder if you'd dine with me one night and come to The Belle of New York.
— from Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham