His are the bounds alone, Here, where no feet have trod, To Him its centre known!
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

And when first I came to this country—knowest thou how I came, Kallikrates?
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

After dinner he departed and I to the office where we met, and that being done I walked to my Brother’s and the Wardrobe and other places about business, and so home, and had Sarah to comb my head clean, which I found so foul with powdering and other troubles, that I am resolved to try how I can keep my head dry without powder; and I did also in a suddaine fit cut off all my beard, which I had been a great while bringing up, only that I may with my pumice-stone do my whole face, as I now do my chin, and to save time, which I find a very easy way and gentile.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But the upper part, on account of the great heat in it, throws up branches into the air through the knots; and this, when it is cut off about twenty feet from the ground and then hewn, is called "knotwood" because of its hardness and knottiness.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

What this title exactly means it is difficult to say; one thing, however, is certain, Kudur-Mabug must have exercised some kind of power and authority in the distant West.
— from Patriarchal Palestine by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

"The devils are after my soul; let them have it!" cried Kmita, as if in a fever.
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Before the first tune was over, I seemed to expect the second, and then the third, without thinking how I could know what was coming; but when they ended with the ballad of the Witch Lady, and I lifted up my head and saw that I was not by my father's fireside, but in Antwerp Cathedral with Lord Rothie, despair filled me with a half-insane resolution.
— from Robert Falconer by George MacDonald

Again we must take a jump with La Bonté over a space of several months; when we find him, in company of half a dozen trappers, amongst them his inseparable compañero Killbuck, camped on the Greenhorn creek, en route to the settlements of New Mexico.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 64 No. 396 October 1848 by Various

As her state of consciousness emerged from the nebulous condition of soft pitch and congealed to the concrete of a highway, Verbeena said softly to herself: “I could kick myself for a goal if I didn’t see somp’n.
— from The Shriek: A Satirical Burlesque by Charles Somerville

She added low, as though she did not want him to hear: "I can kill myself without seeing her in his arms!"
— from In the Name of Liberty: A Story of the Terror by Owen Johnson

I pointed upwards where the tobyman hung in chains, keeping his sheep by moonlight.
— from The High Toby Being further chapters in the life and fortunes of Dick Ryder, otherwise Galloping Dick, sometime gentleman of the road by H. B. Marriott (Henry Brereton Marriott) Watson

And lights were just beginning to be lit when, in a flutter of dust and banging of the leathern side-blinds and screaming of the gritty wheels, we came rocking down the hillside into Camp Kettle.
— from The Lost Cabin Mine by Frederick Niven

The small stretch of country lying between the Semliki, the Albert Lake, and the hills is called Kitwakimbi, and is distinct from Bukande, which begins at the foot of the hills and reaches back to the watershed.
— from From the Cape to Cairo: The First Traverse of Africa from South to North by Arthur H. (Arthur Henry) Sharp