The boat kept close to the shore, stopping frequently at the little, red-roofed settlements, inviting little villas and sea-bathing resorts, to let off more passengers, for everybody in Copenhagen who can, must lie on the Strandvej for at least a part of every summer, enjoying the out-of-doors amusements, the bathing, [65] the woods, sea, sky and sunshine.
— from Our Little Danish Cousin by Luna May Ennis

The square knot is the one used by surgeons in ligating vessels and securing bandages.
— from A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

Thrown together as the people are for a run only, you find little of the messmate kinship which is so strong in longer voyages among seafaring men.
— from Ocean Steamships A popular account of their construction, development, management and appliances by A. E. (Albert Edward) Seaton

For the preparation of lumber for local needs there are sawmills in La Vega and Santiago de los Caballeros.
— from Santo Domingo: A Country with a Future by Otto Schoenrich

The sea coast then as now was densely covered with palm-trees (evidently coco-nut and Palmyra), and the forests contained elephants so superior to those of India that they were shipped in large vessels and sold to the King of Calinga (Northern Circars).
— from Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

I promised, promised faithful when I went on this search, that we'd stay in little villages and small tiny inns, and every place looked big in that town.
— from The Children's Pilgrimage by L. T. Meade

You know we can distinguish different notes when the air-waves play slowly or quickly upon the drum of the ear (as we shall see in Lecture VI) and somewhat in the same way the tiny waves of the ether play on the retina or curtain at the back of our eye, and make the nerves carry different messages to the brain: and the colour we see depends upon the number of waves which play upon the retina in a second.
— from The Fairy-Land of Science by Arabella B. (Arabella Burton) Buckley