He says: “Purely by accident I found in a friend’s library in Bergen a book by a German entitled Reisen in Amerika ....
— 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

Wherewith Doctor Faustus opened the privy-chamber doore, where presently entered the great and mighty emperor Alexander Magnus, in all things to looke upon as if he had beene alive; in proportion, a strong set thicke man, of a middle stature, blacke haire, and that both thicke and curled, head and beard, red cheekes, and a broad face, with eyes like a basiliske; he had a compleat harnesse (i.e. suit of armour) burnished and graven, exceeding rich to look upon:
— from The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 by Christopher Marlowe

V Judged by the standards of a cit, countrymen, I believe, are generally early risers; but even for a countryman, Anthony, next morning, rose at an unlikely hour.
— from The Lady Paramount by Henry Harland

The word vigil is from the Latin vigilare, to keep awake, to watch , because in old times the night before any great event, religious or worldly, was spent in watching.
— from The Divine Office A Study of the Roman Breviary by Edward J. Quigley

But she didn't really feel as if it would be safe for her to promise'em a pound of anything, though mebby she might, by a great effort, raise a pound of flour for 'em, or meal.
— from Samantha at Saratoga by Marietta Holley

You may make the round trip from the railway station in a couple of hours by automobile, getting en route a taste of genuine desert scenery, with its scattered covering of creosote bush, mesquite, cat’s claw, ocotillo and sahuaro.
— from Finding the Worth While in the Southwest by Charles Francis Saunders

Out of sight, my boys and girls, Every root of beauty starts; So think less about your curls, More about your minds and hearts.
— from Graded Memory Selections by Various

Lawes, Sir J. B., and Gilbert, early researches of, at Rothamsted, 34 ; experiments with farmyard manure, 271 ; experiments with Peruvian guano, 301 ; inauguration of Rothamsted experiments by, 33 ; on composition of farmyard manure, 291 ; on manuring of wheat, 483 ; on motion of plant's sap, 56 ; on percentage of food in excreta, 233 ; on rate of nitrification, 186 ; on sources of plant-nitrogen, 43 ; on sulphate of ammonia, 356 ; on unexhausted manures, 550 , 557 -559.
— from Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman

* Elaphe laeta laeta (Baird and Girard), Emory Rat Snake.—
— from Selected Records of Reptiles and Amphibians from Kansas by Hobart M. (Hobart Muir) Smith

Ladislas shall go immediately to seek out the captain of the Sully , and arrange all with him; while, without loss of time, we will proceed to the convent of Father Basil, and get everything ready by the time Ladislas shall join us, which must be with as much speed as he can contrive.”
— from Tales and Stories Now First Collected by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley