"Situated" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stone country-house belonging to Captain Estevan de Marquina. The latter was living there with his wife and children; and none of them escaped, except a little girl, who was wounded, but who was hidden in a thicket. [10] Thence the Sangleys went to the settlement of Laguio, [11] situated on the shore of the river, and burned it. They killed several Indians of that settlement, and the rest fled to the city. There the gates were already shut and all the people, with arms in hand, manned the walls and other suitable posts, ready for any emergency, until ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XVI, 1609 • H.E. Blair
... two flights of stairs covered with rather dirty druggeting, along a corridor that had a thin strip of linoleum, and finally up a third flight that was bare to the boards, until we came to a room which seemed to be at the top of the house and situated in its remotest corner. ...
— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine
... neighbourhood; and we find Strabo attaching with precision the name Aturia, which is nothing but a variant upon Assyria, to that district watered and bounded by the Tigris in which Nineveh was situated.[13] Our only aim is to adopt, once for all, such terms as may be easily understood by our readers, and may render all confusion impossible between the two kingdoms, between the people of the north and those of ...
— A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1 • Georges Perrot
... located and the Skylark flew toward it. Discovering that it was apparently situated in the center of the cluster of suns, they hesitated; but finding that there was no dangerous force present, they kept on. As they drew nearer, so that the planet appeared as a very small moon, they saw that the Skylark was in a blaze of green light, and looking out ...
— The Skylark of Space • Edward Elmer Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby
... livery-stables, situated alongside each other in a busy street, have been having ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
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