David Johnson was a sailor, who came from Norway to New York as a boy, locating in New York in 1832, securing work as a press-feeder.
— 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

But to renounce that unendurable worldly yoke which men believe to be liberty is not perhaps so painful as you think.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

the brush appear to be laid in no regular order yet acquires a strength by the irregularity with which they are placed by the beaver that it would puzzle the engenuity of man to give them.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Nor are you to prohibit those that pass by at the time when your fruits are ripe to touch them, but to give them leave to fill themselves full of what you have; and this whether they be of your own country or strangers,—as being glad of the opportunity of giving them some part of your fruits when they are ripe; but let it not be esteemed lawful for them to carry any away.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Φιλαδελφία, ας, ἡ, brotherly love; in N.T., love of the Christian brotherhood, Ro. 12.10.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Procure an order from the Cardinal-Duke for seizing my Person, and that of the Domina; But let it not be executed till Friday at midnight.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

They may fail in emergencies; but life is not one long emergency: it is mostly a string of situations for which no exceptional strength is needed, and with which even rather weak people can cope if they have a stronger partner to help them out.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

I meant to tell my tale plainly, and make my proposals openly: and it appeared to me so absolutely rational that I should be considered free to love and be loved, I never doubted some woman might be found willing and able to understand my case and accept me, in spite of the curse with which I was burdened.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

But let it not for a moment be supposed that, in proceeding with the sad narrative of Marie from the epoch just mentioned, and in tracing to its dénouement the mystery which enshrouded her, it is my covert design to hint at an extension of the parallel, or even to suggest that the measures adopted in Paris for the discovery of the assassin of a grisette, or measures founded in any similar ratiocination, would produce any similar result.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

"Money is what a man 'arns himself, and he has a right to it, and so I say let him keep it; but land is necessary, and every man has a right to as much as he has need on—I wouldn't give him an acre more, on no account at all."
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

It may be logically, if not ethically, defensible that a Christian should call a Mahommedan an infidel and vice versâ ; but, on Dr. Wace's principles, both ought to call themselves infidels, because each applies the term to the other.
— from Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

It is a separate entity, the city of Dallas is, and I do a little fussing with the police, but by the same token it is not a situation where—I think it is one of your major problems that are going to have to be looked into not only here
— from Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

I honour profoundly the people who engage in such pursuits; but life is not long enough to take up work, however valuable, from a sense of duty, if one realises one's own unfitness for such labours.
— from At Large by Arthur Christopher Benson

But if the relationship thus to be legalized is not moral, it is dishonest to pretend that it can be made so by any ceremony which those concerned may undergo.
— from Sex and Common-Sense by A. Maude (Agnes Maude) Royden

The markings on the reddish fore wings of this species (Plate 88 , Figs. 9 and 10) are somewhat similar to those of the last mentioned, but there is no black streak in the tips of the wings, and the upper part of the outer black line is not toothed.
— from The Moths of the British Isles, Second Series Comprising the Families Noctuidæ to Hepialidæ by Richard South

Besides, light is not what it appears to be; it is a vibration of ether, and there are other [107] ways of seeing than by means of the retina and the optic nerve.
— from Lumen by Camille Flammarion

118 ― Sir Thomas More, in one of his letters to Erasmus, gives the following character of Tonstal: “Ut nemo est omnibus bonis literis instructior, nemo vita moribusque severior, ita nemo est usquam in convictu jucundior.”
— from Life of John Knox, Fifth Edition, Vol. 1 of 2 Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland by Thomas M'Crie