I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death, and all that makes it what it is.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Shall it live in consciousness?
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The scene is laid in Corinth.
— from Medea of Euripides by Euripides

Whether the bladder be distended or not, the small intestines lie in contact with its upper surface, and compress it in the manner of a soft elastic cushion.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Ingkásug wà siya, ibílin lang, In case he’s out, just leave it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In spite of the stories of plundering bands of Bolshevists that in the latter part of 1921 wrecked some of the better known places, we read that Oscar Straus, composer of The Chocolate Soldier , is living in comparative luxury in Vienna, and spends most of his time in the cafés, where he is to be found usually from two until five in the afternoon and from eleven o'clock at night until some early hour of the morning "surrounded by musicians of lesser note and wealth, whom, to a degree, he supports; also with him being many of the leading composers, librettists, actors, actresses, and singers of Vienna."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

And so, as I am not and, so far as one can judge, cannot be enchanted, she it is that is enchanted, that is smitten, that is altered, changed, and transformed; in her have my enemies revenged themselves upon me, and for her shall I live in ceaseless tears, until I see her in her pristine state.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

In the latter case the time for sowing is lost, in consequence of the moisture of the soil; in the former, the ground is so parched that the seed-time comes to no purpose.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The scene is laid in Crete, and the conversation is held in the course of a walk from Cnosus to the cave and temple of Zeus, which takes place on one of the longest and hottest days of the year.
— from Laws by Plato

But the scene is laid in Central Africa, and I must go out there to get the setting vivid and correct.
— from The Upas Tree: A Christmas Story for all the Year by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay

Of those tiny particles of water which the sunbeams draw up and scatter in the air, and which, as we shall see in Lecture IV, cut off part of the intense heat and make the air cool and pleasant for us.
— from The Fairy-Land of Science by Arabella B. (Arabella Burton) Buckley

mór seath i Leathu Immi co tisat do brath
— from A Hymn on the Life, Virtues and Miracles of St. Patrick Composed by his Disciple, Saint Fiech, Bishop of Sletty by Fiech, Saint, Bishop of Sletty, active 6th century

This would be a most extraordinary oversight, as the scene is laid in Crete, in the town of Gnossus.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

The instant the bar is up, it springs, it leaps, it carries off, devours.
— from The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood

Then, after an apprehensive look at the angry sea, and a prayer that was earnest enough to make up for some scantness in length, I cried:— "Come now, comrade, and be brave.
— from The Forge in the Forest Being the Narrative of the Acadian Ranger, Jean de Mer, Seigneur de Briart; and How He Crossed the Black Abbé; and of His Adventures in a Strange Fellowship by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

We have seen such invalids lodged in cold, half-furnished houses, and shivering under blasts of wind from the Alps or Apennines, who might more happily have been sheltered in the vales of Somerset or Devon.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 336, October 18, 1828 by Various

Unlike other park ground squirrels, it lives in colonies.
— from Many-Storied Mountains: The Life of Glacier National Park by Greg Beaumont