The year 1844 brought a large influx of settlers, chiefly from Tele marken, but in part also from Voss.
— 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

For among the brutes nature remains ever the same, pure and simple, but in men, owing to reason and habit, like oil in the hands of the perfumers, being mixed up with many added opinions, it becomes various and loses its original simplicity.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Arrived at last in old Sag Harbor; and seeing what the sailors did there; and then going on to Nantucket, and seeing how they spent their wages in that place also, poor Queequeg gave it up for lost.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Again she listened, but the sound came no more; and, after a long interval of silence, she recovered courage enough to go to the casement, when she again saw the same appearance!
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

"A dollar saved is a dollar earned," but a dollar spent well and liberally is often several dollars earned.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

I will give only one, as likewise illustrating one step in the separation of the sexes of plants.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Meanwhile the Southwind rose, & with black wings Wide hovering, all the Clouds together drove From under Heav’n; the Hills to their supplie Vapour, and Exhalation dusk and moist, Sent up amain; and now the thick’nd Skie Like a dark Ceeling stood; down rush’d the Rain Impetuous, and continu’d till the Earth No more was seen; the floating Vessel swum Uplifted; and secure with beaked prow Rode tilting o’re the Waves, all dwellings else Flood overwhelmd, and them with all thir pomp Deep under water rould; Sea cover’d Sea, Sea without shoar; and in thir Palaces Where luxurie late reign’d, Sea-monsters whelp’d And stabl’d; of Mankind, so numerous late, All left, in one small bottom swum imbark’t.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

I will give only one—not as a very striking case, but as likewise illustrating one step in the separation of the sexes of plants, presently to be alluded to.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

I’ll carry it away and lay it on somebody’s doorstep....” Miguev took the bundle in one hand and quietly, with a deliberate step to avoid awakening suspicion, went down the street....
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

France too was weakened at this moment; for in 1405 the long-smouldering jealousy between the Dukes of Orleans and of Burgundy broke out at last into open strife.
— from History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 by John Richard Green

The chéefe cause that vrgeth me to speake of antiquities, is the paines that I haue taken to gather great numbers of them togither, intending (if euer my Chronologie shall happen to come abroad) to set downe the liuelie portraitures of euerie emperour ingrauen in the same: also the faces of Pompeie, Crassus, the seuen kings of the Romans, Cicero, and diuerse other, which I haue prouided readie for the purpose, beside the monuments and liuelie images of sundrie philosophers, and kings of this Iland, since the time of Edward the Confessor.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison

The old man gazed dully at his partner through a long interval of silence.
— from Dick Kent with the Malemute Mail by M. M. (Milo Milton) Oblinger

The phrase to count your beads originally meant ‘to count your prayers,’ but because the prayers were reckoned by little balls, the word beads came to be transferred to these objects, and lost its original sense.
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen

On board these he placed singing girls, physicians, and artisans of various kinds, [Pg 151] and launching into open sea, was carried towards India by steady westerly winds.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

He kept repeating "Clarissa—Clarissa—Speak to me," and after a long interval of silence she spoke.
— from Professor Huskins by Lettie M. Cummings

Rape, ten years before made punishable only by two years' imprisonment, is now made an offence punishable by loss of life or member; showing how our ancestors treated a burning question, at least in our Southern States, of to-day.
— from Popular Law-making A study of the origin, history, and present tendencies of law-making by statute by Frederic Jesup Stimson

Well, what business had a lady in our school?
— from Lady William by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant