We shall meet Bjaaland again in La Salle County, Illinois, and on Koshkonong Prairie. CHAPTER XI Beaver Creek.
— 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

Would that be an ignoble life?' Such, Phaedrus—and I speak not only to you, but to all of you—were the words of Diotima; and I am persuaded of their truth.
— from Symposium by Plato

And then the maiden Linet came to Sir Beaumains, and unarmed him and searched his wounds, and stinted his blood, and in likewise she did to the Red Knight of the Red Launds.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

The first picture we have of their actual history shows us, not a people behaving as if long settled in a land which was their home and that of their forefathers, but an alien race fighting with wild beasts, clearing dense forests, and driving back the aboriginal inhabitants.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

We find in the "Ménagier," amongst a long list of the common soups the receipts for which are given, soup made of "dried peas and the water in which bacon has been boiled," and, in Lent, "salted-whale water;" watercress soup, cabbage soup, cheese soup, and gramose soup, which was prepared by adding stewed meat to the water in which meat had already been boiled, and adding beaten eggs and verjuice; and, lastly, the souppe despourvue , which was rapidly made at the hotels, for unexpected travellers, and was a sort of soup made from the odds and ends of the larder.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

I shall, of course, wear my widow's bonnet, as it looks so distingué , and Mrs. Sweat, the milliner in the High Street, is making up a new one, most stylish.
— from A Bunch of Cherries: A Story of Cherry Court School by L. T. Meade

The other little girl's free hand also touched her mother, and thus these four, united in poverty and sorrow, but also in love, seemed to form a single whole.
— from In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 07 by Georg Ebers

Was the image of Mrs. Van Brandt an image long since dismissed from my mind?
— from The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins