In the white rock a chapel and a hall On massive columns, like a shorecliff cave, And cells and chambers: all were fair and dry; The green light from the meadows underneath Struck up and lived along the milky roofs; And in the meadows tremulous aspen-trees And poplars made a noise of falling showers.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

I think it must be conceded that the position of the Australasian Day is unique, solitary, unfellowed; and likely to hold that high place a long time.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

'What have we here?' 'Hark!' cried Emily, 'what noise was that?' 'What noise was it?' said Ugo, starting up and listening.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

On being held over it the point sunk as rapidly as before, whereupon the unbelievers set up a laugh, and even the faithful looked somewhat disconcerted; but the wary conjuror, nothing daunted on learning the contents of the purse, ingeniously contended that this was a stronger proof of his position—that there must be, of course, a few grains of gold still sticking in the corners, and that they had affected the delicate nerves of his divining-rod.
— from Golden Dreams and Leaden Realities by George Payson

As we shall have noticed, moreover, that the sensation changed abruptly while the stimulus rose continuously, we shall no doubt estimate the distance between two given sensations by a rough guess at the number of these sudden jumps, or at least of the intermediate sensations which usually serve us as landmarks.
— from Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness by Henri Bergson

Military expenditures - dollar figure: $9.7 billion (FY00) Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 3.1% (FY00) Transnational Issues Iran Disputes - international: despite restored diplomatic relations in 1990, Iran lacks maritime boundary with Iraq and disputes land boundary, navigation channels, and other issues from eight-year war; UAE seeks United Arab League and other international support against Iran's occupation of Greater Tunb Island (called Tunb al Kubra in Arabic by UAE and Jazireh-ye Tonb-e Bozorg in Persian by Iran) and Lesser Tunb Island (called Tunb as Sughra in Arabic by UAE and Jazireh-ye Tonb-e Kuchek in Persian by Iran) and attempts to occupy completely a jointly administered island in the Persian Gulf (called Abu Musa in Arabic by UAE and Jazireh-ye Abu Musa in Persian by Iran); Iran insists on division of Caspian Sea into five equal sectors while Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan have generally agreed upon equidistant seabed boundaries; Iran threatens to conduct oil exploration in Azerbaijani-claimed waters, while interdicting Azerbaijani activities Illicit drugs: despite substantial interdiction efforts, Iran remains a key transshi
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Painted, dyed and drugged, hiding their ugly shapes under a load of dress!
— from Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Our Hebrew guide was willing enough, and unconsciously set us a little example of wantonness; for while he listened to our explanation of the mystery which had puzzled him ever since he had learned English, namely, why the stone should say " writ on water," and not written , he kept plucking mechanically at one of the fragrant shrubs, pinching away the leaves, and rending the tender twig, till I, remembering the once-sensitive dust from which it grew, waited for the tortured tree to cry out to him with a voice of words and blood, "Perchè mi schianti?" VIII.
— from Italian Journeys by William Dean Howells

"The corps of Mandrins which arrested us set us at liberty...
— from The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

Will arose and said, “Let us stroll up a little way.”
— from A Blundering Boy: A Humorous Story by Bruce Weston Munro

The two friends were busily engaged in unpacking, setting up and loading their weapons, chatting animatedly together meanwhile, and pausing from time to time to gaze contemplatively into the velvet darkness which represented the forest-clad nearer bank of the river before them, when suddenly Dick caught sight of what looked like two small greenish-yellow lamps close together that had suddenly revealed themselves in the blackness.
— from In Search of El Dorado by Harry Collingwood

Access to the village was strictly forbidden to us strangers, until at least the king, whose palace is situated some distance from it, had been consulted with in a certain form of ridiculous ceremony, which, for politeness' sake, we felt ourselves bound to assent to, but in the meanwhile we took possession of some huts close to it, where Mr Krapf, our Church missionary, had some years previously, when visiting this place, taken up his abode.
— from What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke