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The term "situated" is employed in literature to precisely anchor subjects within a physical or contextual landscape, clarifying spatial relationships and enhancing descriptive detail. Authors use it to pinpoint the location of natural features, settlements, or architectural elements—such as in narratives that describe strategic positions along coastlines [1], the placement of a facade bathed in morning light [2], or the location of a room relative to the kitchen [3]. In historical and geographical discourses, it establishes the setting of cities or landmarks in relation to natural boundaries or other notable features [4] [5]. Meanwhile, in character-driven narratives, "situated" can also evoke a sense of personal or metaphorical positioning, as when a character remarks on their own disconcerting placement within a situation [6] [7]. This dual utility—both literal and figurative—demonstrates its importance in constructing vivid, immersive contexts across a broad range of literary genres.
  1. The Danes, more favorably situated with respect to the North Sea, directed their course toward the coasts of France and England.
    — from The Art of War by baron de Antoine Henri Jomini
  2. This facade, situated at a height of eighty feet above the ground, was exposed to the east, and the rising sun saluted it with its first rays.
    — from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
  3. They passed into the eating room--a large dark room situated opposite the kitchen.
    — from The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
  4. It is situated upon an eminence at a little distance from the sea.
    — from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) by Strabo
  5. Ariminum is a town on the Adriatic, situated at the southern boundary of the valley of the Padus.
    — from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius
  6. “I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange—a very strange one.
    — from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  7. At my open window, catching now and then a sentence of the "parson's saw," I am as well situated as at the foot of the pulpit stairs.
    — from Twice-told tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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