I shall then move command to the vicinity of Lake Taal, and sweep the country westward to the ocean and south of Cavite, returning through Lipa.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

In the immediate vicinity of Littleborough, there are several interesting old houses, now standing upon sites where families of importance in past times settled very early.
— from Lancashire Sketches Third Edition by Edwin Waugh

Naturally dictatorial and violent, only long training and severe experience had taught him self-control, and when he gave way to passion his bursts of fury were still tremendous.
— from Democracy, an American novel by Henry Adams

In old days, even in a sailing vessel of large tonnage, a sea voyage was frequently accompanied with much misery.
— from England and Canada A Summer Tour Between Old and New Westminster, with Historical Notes by Sandford Fleming

In vain did we implore his protection; in vain appeal to the justice, the generosity of Englishmen; of men who had been the guardians, the asserters and vindicators of liberty through a succession of ages; men, who, with their swords had established the firm barrier of freedom, and cemented it with the blood of heroes.
— from A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry With an appendix, containing the Constitution of the United States, and other documents by L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) Judson

quotiens ad limina princeps Theodosius privatus adhuc fraterna veniret, oscula libabat teque ad sua tecta ferebat laetior; in matrem teneris conversa querellis: 100 “quid me de propriis auferre penatibus?”
— from Claudian, volume 2 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

Euripides received his views of life through a single aperture, the one channel of 'High' and 'Right.'
— from A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.

I should have had great difficulty to convince this practical and disinterested admirer and vindicator of liberty, that arrests seldom or never were to be seen in the streets of Edinburgh; and to satisfy her of their justice and necessity would have been as difficult as to convert her to the Protestant faith.
— from Chronicles of the Canongate, 1st Series by Walter Scott

Don't forget that we are now considering variations of less than a second a week.
— from Time and Its Measurement by James Arthur

A deep gorge is interposed immediately beyond the village; and beyond the further hills lie the valleys of Lower Tkhuma and Salabekan.
— from The Cradle of Mankind; Life in Eastern Kurdistan by Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram