119 See below under Rock Prairie.
— 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

With the annihilation of all capital they would vanish too; but universal ruin (providing it was universal, as it was revealed to Michaelis) would leave the social values untouched.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round, Parents first season us; then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws; they send us bound To rules of reason, holy messengers, Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, Bibles laid open, millions of surprises; Blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, The sound of Glory ringing in our ears Without, our shame; within, our consciences; Angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poichè videro gli Dei compiersi debitamente dal gran Risci l'oblazione, venuti al cospetto di Brahma facitor del mondo, signor delle creature, così parlarono reverenti a lui dator di grazie: O Brahma, un Racsaso per nome Râvano, eui tu fosti largo del tuo favore, è per superbia infesto a noi tutti e ai grandi Saggi penitenti.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

To him, who constantly used that sort of Venice glass, which had the quality of breaking, upon receiving poisoned liquor, a suspicion, that some of his guests had endeavoured to betray him, instantly occurred, and he ordered all the gates to be closed, drew his sword, and, looking round on them, who stood in silent amazement, exclaimed, 'Here is a traitor among us; let those, that are innocent, assist in discovering the guilty.'
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

"The fact is, Pindar," Miss Prudence went on, more gently, laying down the shears for an instant, "you and Homer was both brought up real peculiar, and you're feeling it now.
— from Mrs. Tree's Will by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

But this prince was sufficiently sagacious to seek enlightenment beforehand upon Romish pretensions.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

Value, however, being purely relative, can not depend upon absolute profits, no more than upon absolute wages, but upon relative profits only.
— from Principles of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill

Elizabeth Luther Gary, in the best of all the books upon Rossetti, published by G. P. Putnam's Sons two years after the first edition of Aylwin , speaks of D'Arcy as being 'the mouthpiece of Rossetti.'
— from Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton

The second exception, so far as it relates to a Party to the Protocol against whom force might be used, relates primarily to an aggressor, as defined in the Protocol.
— from The Geneva Protocol by David Hunter Miller

"I'll be up," replied Peter Neale, "right away."
— from The Boy Grew Older by Heywood Broun

As steam and current bore us rapidly past the battlefield in the twilight, the vultures circling over the distant plain and the broken zeriba by the river's bank were the only visible signs which remained to tell of our momentous victory.
— from The Downfall of the Dervishes; or, The Avenging of Gordon by Ernest Nathaniel Bennett

And he looks at her, and follows her around the room with his eyes; and she blushes up real pink and pretty lots of times when he comes into the room.
— from Mary Marie by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

These two, who gave to her, the orphaned vagrant, surrounded by unbridled recklessness, physical and mental misery, a proof that there was still in marriage real love and a happiness secure from every assault, were now, before her eyes, placing themselves on the same plane with the miserable couples whom she met everywhere.
— from The Complete Short Works of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers