[360] About 1858 he married Maline Öien (b. in Aardal, Sogn, in 1835).
— 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

Izz said, 'Don't 'ee tell her'; but I am sure I can't help it!
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

This (as I said before) is a sure indication, either of a mind so weak that it is not able to bear above one object at a time; or so affected, that it would be supposed to be wholly engrossed by, and directed to, some very great and important objects.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Then I could have had Fred in my arms every minute of the day, and his cot was close by my bed; and now, now—Margaret—I don't know where my boy is, and sometimes I think I shall never see him again.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

But my aunt was very kind, wanting me to have rest from my work there, because I'd been ill, and she invited me to come and stay with her for a while.”
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

but I have hitherto made a right judgment; for first, being in a swoon, I laboured to rip open the buttons of my doublet with my nails, for my sword was gone; and yet I felt nothing in my imagination that hurt me; for we have many motions in us that do not proceed from our direction; “Semianimesque micant digiti, ferrumque retractant;” [“Half-dead fingers grope about, and grasp again the sword.” —AEneid, x. 396.]
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But if all such inclined shafts are seventy-six fathoms deep, in order that the last one may reach the bottom of the tunnel, a depth of seven fathoms and two feet remains to be sunk.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

"I am sure you intended it for the best; but I am sorry it could not be avoided."
— from The Smuggler: A Tale. Volumes I-III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

But it isn't a hole, or rather, someone bored it and stopped it up again.
— from Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat; Or, The Rivals of Lake Carlopa by Victor Appleton

The ureters, c , are dilated, and perforations made by instruments are seen in the prostate.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Now, this is, I think, a general fallacy, but I am sure it is an individual one: the sight of your handwriting, representing as it does to me your face, your voice, and, above all, your generous and constant affection, makes the mere superscription of your letters worth a joyful welcome from me; and for any dearth of matter on your part, it lies, I rather think, chiefly in the direction which least affects me, i.e. society gossip, or " news ," as it is called (O Lord!
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

‘Well done, sons!’ said the old man; ‘you have made good use of your time, and learnt something worth the knowing; but I am sure I do not know which ought to have the prize.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

“I believe I am, sir, if you put that word against (to) a man that gethers yarribs.”
— from The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

The harbour of Hobson's Bay is a splendid inlet of the sea.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various