Mayor Walworth was with the King, and Salisbury and Buckingham and the other nobles that had sheltered in the Tower, but they were not many, and they were very pale.
— from Long Will by Florence Converse

At the base of the range he crossed a softly-swelling expanse of close-cropped grass, skirted a bog and troop of naked-seeming birches, and came in view of the maple grove toward which he was bound.
— from Mountain Blood: A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

The rich plains of Otago and Canterbury answer to those of Lombardy and the Campagna, while the palms and fern-trees of Auckland wave against a sky as blue as that of Naples.
— from Yachting, Vol. 2 by Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of

" "We should be on the way to the House, missy, if I did give away such a bit as that!" "Oh, no, you wouldn't, for God just sends it back, Miss Falkner says in other kind of ways.
— from Jill's Red Bag by Amy Le Feuvre