1 When Gerald first moved to north Georgia, there had been no Atlanta at all, not even the semblance of a village, and wilderness rolled over the site.
2 The deep pit which had been the cellar, the blackened field-stone foundations and two mighty chimneys marked the site.
3 The depot had not been rebuilt since the burning of the city and they alighted amid cinders and mud a few yards above the blackened ruins which marked the site.
4 Each station, each crossroad the conductor called was the name of a battle, the site of a skirmish.
5 The Commercial Club decided that Gopher Prairie was not only a wheat-center but also the perfect site for factories, summer cottages, and state institutions.
6 He swam the seas before the continents broke water; he once swam over the site of the Tuileries, and Windsor Castle, and the Kremlin.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?—Will He... 7 When they reached Circe's house they found it built of cut stones, on a site that could be seen from far, in the middle of the forest.
8 He found him sitting in front of his hut, which was by the yards that he had built on a site which could be seen from far.
9 The next day was as fine as its predecessor: it was devoted by the party to an excursion to some site in the neighbourhood.
10 He would have let the house, but could find no tenant, in consequence of its ineligible and insalubrious site.
11 The old man in the arm-chair--Mr. Oliver, of the Indian Civil Service, retired--said that the site they had chosen for the cesspool was, if he had heard aright, on the Roman road.
12 Nature had provided a site for a house; man had built his house in a hollow.
13 The site of the fire was now merely a circle of ashes flecked with red embers and sparks, the furze having burnt completely away.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 14 The site chosen for the village festivity was one of the lawnlike oases which were occasionally, yet not often, met with on the plateaux of the heath district.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 15 Nevertheless, I knew, while I said those words, that I secretly intended to revisit the site of the old house that evening, alone, for her sake.