Another blacksmith by the name of Claus Hanson came at the same time; worked at his trade for a while in Whitewater then went to Michigan, married and came back and settled in Milwaukee, where he is still living.
— 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

All these things, never seen before, are seen in many of his works, and in particular in the Pieve of Arezzo, in an altar-front wherein are stories of S. Donatus, and in S. Agnesa and S. Niccolò in the same city.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

By a system I mean the unity of various cognitions under one idea.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

in the two preceding cases when she was again set in motion, and her rate of going determined by a series of equal altitudes of the sun taken for that purpose, it was found to be the same precisely as that mentioned in the preliminary remarks to these observations, or 15 s & 5 tenths too slow in 24 h-as her rate of going after stoping, and begin again set in motion has in two instances proved to be the same, I have concluded, that whatever this impediment may procede from, it is not caused by any material injury which her works have sustained, and that when she is in motion, her error on mean time above stated, may be depended on as accurate.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

He returned to the hut, bringing in his arms a new-born lamb, consisting of four legs large enough for a full-grown sheep, united by a seemingly inconsiderable membrane about half the substance of the legs collectively, which constituted the animal's entire body just at present.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

After the embankments have been mended the harrowing begins: a start is made with the plot that was first ploughed (other than the nursery plot), for there the earth will have become soft, and the weeds being rotten after many days of soaking in the water will form a sort of manure.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

She was born a slave in Maryland, in 1820, bore the marks of the lash on her flesh; and had been made partially deaf, and perhaps to some degree mentally unbalanced by a blow on the head in childhood.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

—Our world is either the work and expression (the modus ) of God, in which case it must be in the highest degree perfect (Leibnitz's [Pg 330] conclusion ...),—and no one doubted that he knew what perfection must be like,—and then all evil can only be apparent (Spinoza is more radical, he says this of good and evil), or it must be a part of God's high purpose (a consequence of a particularly great mark of favour on God's part, who thus allows man to choose between good and evil: the privilege of being no automaton; "freedom," with the ever-present danger of making a mistake and of choosing wrongly....
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Kostya skimmed through a brief description of the Flood in the book, and said: "I must remark that there really never was a flood such as is described here.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But with such a brother as Stephen, I may be there again, and that soon enough.
— from The Lion's Whelp: A Story of Cromwell's Time by Amelia E. Barr

Hence, given a dispute in which it feels its rights and welfare to be at stake, it may, however erroneously, set aside its moral obligations to international society in favour of its obligations to the people for whom it exists.
— from The Fruits of Victory A Sequel to The Great Illusion by Norman Angell

"If it had been a street, I mean, with anyone about, or coming out of church!
— from Ringfield: A Novel by S. Frances (Susie Frances) Harrison

"You will be as safe in my house as in the rooms of the Gerry Society."
— from The Penalty by Gouverneur Morris

Again returned to me stronger than ever the desire to do figure-work, and a vague, persistent, and fierce hope to become a sculptor in marble.
— from Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs of Giovanni Duprè by Giovanni Duprè

Still, I would feel better about something, if my memory were more docile.
— from Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath by Ben Hecht

I never cared to see the younger brood, for when my wife died it seemed to me that all who loved me, or whom I loved, came to me but to die, and so I steeled my heart against the new brood and slunk into myself, shut myself out from them and all the world, and took to lonely ways and solitude until I came to this.
— from The Last Call: A Romance (Vol. 1 of 3) by Richard Dowling

But as she is my wife, she will surely die!
— from Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

As soon as the sub-lieutenant was well out of hearing, the captain turned to the boys and said: "It may be a difficult and trying duty to you to perform, but it is the only safe thing to do.
— from The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet by Kenneth Ward

One flies out lewdly and becomes debauched; another, likewise, five, four, and two, and that at such random that, if the court take not some course therein, it will make as bad a season in matter of gleaning this year as ever it made, or it will make goblets.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais