Now, the Sind-Sagor Doab formed a portion of the kingdom of Kashmir, and the joint names, like those of Sindhu-Sauvira, describe only one State."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

'I was tempted to loose the bullet; and truly, in Tibet there would have been a heavy and a slow death for them ...
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

It is about 150 miles long, and from 40 to 50 broad; in circumference, some 320; a country large enough, and sufficiently distant from the nearest shores, to have subsisted as an independent state, if the welfare and happiness of the human race had ever been considered as the end and aim of policy.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

Thus the possibility is held out to us of having found a simple determining factor for the neurosis.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Now so deadly full of jealousy I am that my heart and head did so cast about and fret that I could not do any business possibly, but went out to my office, and anon late home again and ready to chide at every thing, and then suddenly to bed and could hardly sleep, yet durst not say any thing, but was forced to say that I had bad news from the Duke concerning Tom Hater as an excuse to my wife, who by my folly has too much opportunity given her with the man, who is a pretty neat black man, but married.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It is commonly said that Chonæ is built on the site of the ancient Colossæ; but the later town stands at some distance from the earlier, as Salisbury does from Old Sarum.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

He then called for his harpoon, had the wooden stock drawn from it, and then had the iron part placed in the coffin along with one of the paddles of his boat.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

She fell to wondering whether, when they were together in the dark, his unseen eyes had this look—and why it made his words and his caresses seem so different from the words and caresses of the darkness.
— from The Hungry Heart: A Novel by David Graham Phillips

The nearest star’s distance from us had been measured, and by the aid of light, by which it could alone be accomplished.
— from The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various

Then would all fight on foot save Sir Dinadan, for he was sorely bruised and frighted by his fall.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Now it chanced that Mr. Bulkley had a small farm, some distance from the town of Colchester, and found it necessary, the same day he wrote his opinion and advice to the brethren of the disaffected church, to drop a line to his farmer regarding the fixtures of said estate.
— from The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

He took a sheet of paper from a portfolio which was concealed; like the revolver, under the bolster, and read: "Being stricken with a fatal malady, I here set down freely, and in the fulness of my faculties, my last wishes: "My dearest wish is that my well-beloved widow, Bertha, should espouse, as soon as the delay enjoined by law has expired, my dear friend, the Count Hector de Tremorel.
— from The Mystery of Orcival by Emile Gaboriau

He made a sign to her to go with him to the window, which was at some distance from the bed.
— from Whosoever Shall Offend by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

If they have not the same lie, then, if the player takes up the same stance at the same distance from the ball when making a brassy shot as when he struck the ball from the tee with his driver, the sole of the club will not sweep evenly along the turf as it comes on to the ball, and the odds will be against a good shot being made.
— from The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon

Mary allows she was wrong about Mr. Claude BEING SELFISH; He was MOST useful and kind on the terrible thirtieth of April. Do not write here any more; we are starting directly for Florence: We should be off to-morrow, if only Papa could get horses; All have been seized everywhere for the use of this dreadful Mazzini P.S. Mary has seen thus far.—I am really so angry, Louisa,— Quite out of patience, my dearest!
— from Amours De Voyage by Arthur Hugh Clough