I would have liked to visit the
birthplace of Gutenburg, but it could not be done, as no memorandum of the site of the house has been kept.
"The heathen had beforehand seized the higher ground," as old Asser says, having wasted everything behind them from London, and being just ready to burst down on the fair Vale, Alfred's own
birthplace and heritage.
Some years ago, when you were beginning to tell me your real name and
birthplace, you may remember I stopped you, and preferred to remain ignorant of all.
But the sweetest incident of Anne's sojourn in Bolingbroke was the visit to her
birthplace -- the little shabby yellow house in an out-of-the-way street she had so often dreamed about.
One of them is Dwarka, the
birthplace of the god Krishna.
He had wandered to this remote region from his
birthplace in the interior of the State of New York, to seek his fortune.
"What is thy name, slave?" asked the princess, "and what thy race and
birthplace?"
They are strangers in their
birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage.
Here I had found a man not made from dust; one who had no narrow boasts of
birthplace or country, one who, if he bragged at all, would brag of his whole round globe against the Martians and the inhabitants of the Moon.
If the existence of the same species at distant and isolated points of the earth's surface, can in many instances be explained on the view of each species having migrated from a single
birthplace; then, considering our ignorance with respect to former climatal and geographical changes and various occasional means of transport, the belief that this has been the universal law, seems to me incomparably the safest.
Could it be this abortion that had climbed to be an advocate, and now lived in the
birthplace of Flora and the home of John's tenderest memories?
Had it befallen me never to quit that village--had it befallen me to remain for ever in that spot--I should always have been happy; but fate ordained that I should leave my
birthplace even before my girlhood had come to an end.