Then at six they arrived at the Borges' summer place on Long Island, and Amory rushed up-stairs to change into a dinner coat.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

I set about choosing some pieces of lace in a mechanical way, and told my maid to go and fetch my purse.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The most important leakage out and into the main stream takes place on the Southern section, mainly at Tubetube and Wari, and at some points of lesser importance around these two main centres.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

In Stump Pond, on Long Island, and the adjacent waters, are four different varieties of trout: the old-fashioned Stump Pond Trout, [5] with a black mouth, a long, thin body, a big head, and a wolfish, hungry
— from The Game Fish, of the Northern States and British Provinces With an account of the salmon and sea-trout fishing of Canada and New Brunswick, together with simple directions for tying artificial flies, etc., etc. by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

Weary of her master, and fearing that he might live to be very old, since he was able to bear up under their criminal practices, she formed the very simple plan of leaving Issoudun and being married to Maxence in Paris, after obtaining from Jean-Jacques the transfer of the income in the Funds.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

NA% permanent crops: NA% meadows and pastures: NA% forest and woodland: NA% *Russia, Geography other: NA% note: agricultural land accounts for 13% of the total land area Irrigated land: 61,590 km2 (1990) Environment: despite its size, only a small percentage of land is arable and much is too far north for cultivation; permafrost over much of Siberia is a major impediment to development; catastrophic pollution of land, air, water, including both inland waterways and sea coasts Note: largest country in the world in terms of area but unfavorably located in relation to major sea lanes of the world *Russia, People Population: 149,300,359 (July 1993 est.)
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Those of the nineteenth century, to whom the hidden secrets of their fathers have been imparted, eke out a livelihood by cultivating a small patch of land in a mountainous district, and vending nostrums for the cure of diseases in man and beast, and selling charms to counteract witchcraft.
— from The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together with Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James (Archaeologist) Grant

You do not see as many private carriages in Berlin in a week as you do in some parts of London in an hour.
— from Home Life in Germany by Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs.

The skeleton of the members of this class, the highest of the vertebrata, has the following characteristics:— Some part of the integument at some period of life is always provided with hairs; these are epidermal structures arising from short papillae of the Malpighian layer of the epidermis, which at once grow inwards and become imbedded in pits of the dermis.
— from The Vertebrate Skeleton by Sidney H. (Sidney Hugh) Reynolds

The same principle of local independence and isolation which created these dukes, established the hereditary power of the counts and barons who formerly exercised jurisdiction under them and others.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley

Evelyn's face was rounder, her eyes were not deep-set like her mother's; they lay nearly on the surface, pools of light illuminating a very white and flower-like complexion.
— from Evelyn Innes by George Moore