To-day the rippling billows of yellow wheat, the walls on walls of black-green corn, the stretches of emerald alfalfa set with its gems of amethyst bloom; orchard and meadow, grove and grassy upland, where cattle pasture; populous cities and churches and stately college halls; the whirring factory wheels, the dust of the mines, the black oil derrick and the huge reservoirs of natural gas, with the slender steel pathways of the great trains of traffic binding these together; and above all, the sheltered happy homes, where little children
— from The Price of the Prairie: A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter

He is positively decided to have no responsibility whatever respecting what has been done or is doing on the subject of foreign politics; he not only adheres to his resolution of not going up for the opening [of Parliament]; but will not attend even on the estimates unless a necessity should arise: he writes to day both to Mr. Addington and Lord Hawkesbury in a style that will not only manifest the above, but will prevent all further attempts to draw him into confidential communication .
— from William Pitt and the Great War by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

Having all my life lived in the high regions of New Granada, I was not prepared for the perfectly tropical scenery
— from In New Granada; Or, Heroes and Patriots by William Henry Giles Kingston

His breeding, in truth, had been that of a gentleman, and it was only of late years that he had fallen into the hungry region of New Grub Street.
— from New Grub Street by George Gissing

Julia had kept to her resolution of not going up to London.
— from Won from the Waves by William Henry Giles Kingston

In peace, plenty, and prosperity, we might be carried to the highest reach of national greatness.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Even old Mrs. Hungerford this night broke through her rule of not going to more than one house, and she drove off to Lady de Courcy’s.
— from The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

This most charming Odontoglossum was discovered in the year 1850 by M. Schlim at that time engaged in exploring the higher regions of New Granada in the service of M. Linden to whose well-known horticultural establishment at Brussels he had the honour of introducing it.
— from A Monograph of Odontoglossum by Jas. (James) Bateman