The " huerta " of Valencia, with its canals for irrigation, its " acequias ," " norias ," and other devices to draw the waters of the Guadalaviar, is one of the most successful examples in Spain of regulated application of water to agriculture.
— from Spain by Wentworth Webster

On the 30th of the month we suddenly encountered immense swarms of Rocky Mountain locusts, with which for two days we were surrounded.
— from The Awakening of the Desert by Julius Charles Birge

I have been assured that the same extinguisher is still, occasionally, resorted to by the brothers; and a gun heard in the night, infallibly reminds the inhabitants, of the Riberas’ lamp.
— from Letters from Spain by Joseph Blanco White

"The same readiness with which we serve our father," says one of the Chinese classics, "we should employ in serving our Ruler, and the reverence must be the same for both.
— from Lion and Dragon in Northern China by Johnston, Reginald Fleming, Sir

He did not, however, feel at liberty to accept the invitation, considering himself so identified with the college with which he was then connected that he must share either its sinking or rising fortunes.
— from The History of Dartmouth College by Baxter Perry Smith