The first of these comprises originally Albion, Christiana and Deerfield; from this region the settlement soon grew into Dunkirk and Pleasant Spring, and from the latter north into Cottage Grove.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

It seems you turn day into night, and choose a desk for a pillow; rather hard lodging—?"
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

(" He regards the taking of a capital as decisive for the submission of a whole kingdom; thus in 1814 will act his adversaries, pale but judicious imitators of his strategy.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Athos uttered a cry of joy and admiration, ran to a closet and drew forth workmen’s clothes, which the four friends immediately put on; they then left the hotel, Athos carrying a saw, Porthos a vise, Aramis an axe and D’Artagnan a hammer and some nails.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Lay aside the rule and the pencil, take a cab and drive from door to door; there is the road to fame.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The streets near the station were full of the smell of beer and coffee and decaying fruit and a shirt-sleeved populace moved through them with the intimate abandon of boarders going down the passage to the bathroom.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Pindar mentions one Polymnastus also, a Colophonian, as distinguished for his skill in music: “Thou knowest the celebrated strains of Polymnastus, the Colophonian:” and some writers affirm that Homer was of that city.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

For, though a man in a fever should from sugar have a bitter taste, which at another time would produce a sweet one, yet the idea of bitter in that man’s mind would be as clear and distinct from the idea of sweet as if he had tasted only gall.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Then Romantin plunged his hand into a cupboard, and drew forth twenty empty bottles, which he fixed in the form of a crown around the hoop.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The Master does not preach a gospel { 125} of helplessness, but enjoins a manly attitude toward peace and concord, in place of a constantly active desire for vengeance and strife.
— from The Syrian Christ by Abraham Mitrie Rihbany

In short he would require to dislodge his argument from the special adjustments which in the first instance appeared to him so suggestive, to those general laws of Nature which by their united operation give rise to a cosmos as distinguished from a chaos.
— from Thoughts on Religion by George John Romanes

You are to come in and choose a doll for her.”
— from The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers by Saki

It raised an outcry against certain alms destined for the erection of the basilica of St. Peter for the use of the Christian world.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

A ray of sunlight fell into that little white, glistening, frozen desert and illuminated it with a cold and dazzling flame.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

At sight of his wife, Calandrino, suspended, as it were, between life and death, ventured no defence; but, his face torn to shreds, his hair and clothes all disordered, fumbled about for his capuche, which having found, up he got, and humbly besought his wife not to publish the matter, unless she were minded that he should be cut to pieces, for that she that was with him was the wife of the master of the house.
— from The Decameron, Volume II by Giovanni Boccaccio

A customer, in the person of the Government, came into the market and created a demand for clothing, that swept every factory clear of its accumulated stock, and bound the proprietors in contracts for more, which required them to run night and day.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The same life that needs forgetfulness, needs sometimes its destruction; for should the injustice of something ever become obvious—a monopoly, a caste, a dynasty for example—the thing deserves to fall.
— from Thoughts Out of Season, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche