[2] These particulars were obtained by Dr. Bushell through the Archimandrite Palladius, from the MS. account of a Chinese traveller who visited Shangtu about two hundred years ago, when probably the whole inscription was above ground.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

But I interrupt you in what you said to Biddy.” “Which it were,” said Joe, “that how you might be amongst strangers, and that how you and me having been ever friends, a wisit at such a moment might not prove unacceptabobble.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In fact I warn you quite directly not to say anything to her, you are quite mistaken, I know Miss Bürstner very well and there is no truth at all in what you say.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

I went on one side about two hundred yards, and beckoning to her not to look or to follow me, I hid myself between two leaves of sorrel, and there discharged the necessities of nature.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

The coach bounced up and down in such a terrific way that it jolted the buttons all off of Horace’s coat, and finally shot his head clean through the roof of the stage, and then he yelled at Hank Monk and begged him to go easier—said he warn’t in as much of a hurry as he was awhile ago.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

“You haven’t said anything to her yet about last night, have you?”
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

This reads like the advice of some modern therapeutist; it is, however, the conclusion of a physician (Kramer) who wrote on scurvy almost two hundred years ago, and shows that the treatment of scurvy has undergone no fundamental change in the intervening years.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

In the war of winds a fine covered bridge that crossed the Shenandoah about three hundred yards above the mouth of that river was lifted from its piers and completely overturned into the bed of the stream.
— from The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry, with Legends of the Surrounding Country by Joseph Barry

'But in another World diuided far: 'In the great, fortunate, triangled Ile, 'Thrise twelue degrees remou'd from the North star, 'She will this glorious workemanship compile; 'Which she hath beene conceiuing all this while 'Since the World's birth, and will bring forth at last, 'When sixe and twenty hundred yeares are past.' 122.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. Volume 1 of 2. by Davies, John, Sir

ndred feet square and two hundred yards apart
— from Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper

If hands were tired, he said always: 'Think how you are earning for us all, and for the dot that some day you shall have when your blue eyes are older, and some one comes who will see that they are wise eyes that, if they laugh, know also all the ways that these threads must go.'
— from Prisoners of Poverty Abroad by Helen Campbell

A little later, however, another trawler observed the wash of a submarine crossing her stern about two hundred yards away.
— from Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

"I will send and tell him you are here," answered Mr. Werner.
— from Mortomley's Estate: A Novel. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Riddell, J. H., Mrs.

The address concluded with the following words: "The subscribers desire that Captain Boyton will regard this presentation as a reminiscence of his visit to Ireland and as a token of the high estimation in which they hold him as a fearless experimentalist in bringing under public notice the most valuable life saving apparatus that has yet appeared."
— from The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Paul Boyton