On January 10th, 1902, I left Calcutta by train and reached Raxaul, a station on the Nepālese border, at dusk of the following day.
— from Three Years in Tibet by Ekai Kawaguchi

The sun was still high over the distant housetops and the light turned the brick pavement to a rich red and shot the clouds of gray dust with silver.
— from One Man in His Time by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

The motor, cleverly patched up, had found its way to a real road, and speeding along between the stunted cork-trees of the forest of Mamora brought us to a last rise from which we beheld in the dusk a line of yellow walls backed by the misty blue of the Atlantic.
— from In Morocco by Edith Wharton

An artificial piece of water whereon the ancient Romans represented a sea-fight, supposed to have originated in the first Punic war.
— from The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by W. H. (William Henry) Smyth

A warm wind puffed in her face; the air was full of black flakes flying through a red rain; a stream of fire ran along the floor, crests of flames leapt and quivered over the steady blue under-current; and over there, in the corner, an absurd little arm-chair had caught fire all by itself; the flames had peeled off its satin covering like a skin, and were slowly consuming the horse-hair stuffing; the pitiable object sent out great puffs and clouds of smoke that writhed in agonized spirals.
— from The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) by May Sinclair

—These are rings resembling a series of hoops provided in a parallel wound armature to eliminate the effects of "unbalancing," by which the current divides unequally among the several paths through the armature.
— from Hawkins Electrical Guide v. 02 (of 10) Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A progressive course of study for engineers, electricians, students and those desiring to acquire a working knowledge of electricity and its applications by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins

The Amazon rather resembles a slowly moving inland sea, its twelve principal tributaries all surpassing the measure of European rivers.
— from South America and the War by F. A. (Frederick Alexander) Kirkpatrick

The assembled regiments raised a shout in honor of Ramses XIII.
— from The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Bolesław Prus

But in one night of storm and rain the ancient river rose and swept away both church and tomb and what lay therein, not leaving so much as the foundations to tell where the place had been.
— from A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler