Da Gama was successful and landed at Calicut on the south-western coast of India.
— from Introductory American History by Henry Eldridge Bourne
The misfortune is, that these poor creatures are induced to part with everything for the means of gratifying their passion for drink, and then lingering around the settlements as long as charity offers to supply their daily wants.
— from Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
crieth one; 'Ho!' quoth another, 'Cozen John;' And stoppen, and lough, and callen out,— This sely clerke full low doth lout: They asken that, and talken this, 'Lo here is Coz, and here is Miss.'
— from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Alexander Pope
At the same end of the terrace, only a few feet below the level of the window, was a marble seat, shaped almost like a couch, of the sort common in gardens of these parts.
— from The Admiral: A Romance of Nelson in the Year of the Nile by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen
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