The Earliest Norwegian Settlers at Wiota, La Fayette County, and Dodgeville, Iowa County, Wisconsin 198 Growth of the Jefferson Prairie Settlement from 1841 to 1845.
— 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

His wife (born Karina Bornevik, from Nærstrand, Norway) died in 1902, aged eighty-six. CHAPTER XXII The Earliest Norwegian Settlers at Wiota, La Fayette County, and Dodgeville, Iowa County, Wisconsin About forty miles directly west of Rock Prairie lies Wiota, about which town stretches in all directions a Norwegian settleme
— 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

— N. imperfection; imperfectness &c. Adj.; deficiency; inadequacy &c. (insufficiency) 640; peccancy &c. (badness) 649[obs3]; immaturity &c. 674.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The rivulet by which they stand drains the boiling Phlegethon—where the water is all changed to blood, because in it the murderers are punished—and flowing through the forest of the suicides and the desert of the blasphemers, etc., tumbles into the Eighth Circle as described in Canto xvi.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

When the members of a community are divided into castes and classes, they not only differ from one another, but they have no taste and no desire to be alike; on the contrary, everyone endeavors, more and more, to keep his own opinions undisturbed, to retain his own peculiar habits, and to remain himself.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The country about Dodona is called Hellopia by Hesiod.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Putting the iron which was a little the smaller on the piece of wood, he fastened them very firmly, crossing and re-crossing the thread round them; then wrapped them carefully and daintily in clean white paper and tied up the parcel so that it would be very difficult to untie it.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Mr. Brocklehurst, I believe I intimated in the letter which I wrote to you three weeks ago, that this little girl has not quite the character and disposition I could wish: should you admit her into Lowood school, I should be glad if the superintendent and teachers were requested to keep a strict eye on her, and, above all, to guard against her worst fault, a tendency to deceit.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Loud and long were the clamours and differences in Cyprus and in Rhodes by reason of their doings; but, ultimately, their friends and kinsfolk, interposing in one and the other place, found means so to adjust matters that, after some exile, Cimon joyfully returned to Cyprus with Iphigenia, whilst Lysimachus on like wise returned to Rhodes with Cassandra, and each lived long and happily with his mistress in his own country."
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Chemical composition and decomposition is constant and unceasing, everywhere the work of building up and breaking down is going on.
— from A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga by William Walker Atkinson

He appeared to be a born actor and mimic; and had they not known otherwise Tom and Jack could have declared that the comedian who was under contract with an American film company, and doubtless in California making pictures at that moment, had been suddenly transported to the French fighting front to entertain the soldiers.
— from Air Service Boys Over the Enemy's Lines; Or, The German Spy's Secret by Charles Amory Beach

Had it been under the control of the County Council it would have been instantly condemned as dangerous in case of fire, for its gangways were always encumbered and its exits of a mediaeval complexity.
— from Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days by Arnold Bennett

Papa at once ordered the carriage, and directly it came to the door he started for Harmer Place to inquire himself as to the truth of these dreadful reports.
— from A Search For A Secret: A Novel. Vol. 2 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

It increases more and more in volume and in intricacy of structure, it expands the cranial cavity and diversifies its convolutions.
— from Naturalism and Religion by Rudolf Otto

[Pg 146] While it is generally agreed by text critics that Shakespeare's King John was drastically revised in about 1596, the metrical tests and the scarcity of classical allusions denote its composition at about the same period as that of the original composition of Richard II. ; and though the later time revision of both of these plays has no doubt replaced much of Shakespeare's earlier work in them with matter of a later time, an early date for their original composition is very evident.
— from Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 by Arthur Acheson

There were smiths who worked in the coarser metals, and jewellers skilful as those of Europe; there were makers and dealers in furniture, and sandals, and plumaje ; at one place men were disposing of fruits, flowers, and vegetables; not far away fishermen boasted their stock caught that day in the fresh waters of Chalco; tables of pastry and maize bread were set next the quarters of the hunters of Xilotepec; the armorers, clothiers, and dealers in cotton were each of them a separate host.
— from The Fair God; or, The Last of the 'Tzins: A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico by Lew Wallace

Contents: Postal service and civilization; Colonial post offices in America; British control of the American post office; Early development of the Federal postal system; Rise of the modern postal system; United States postal history since 1847; The post offices; The network of post roads; The post office lobby; The workings of a post office; Railway mail service; How the farmer gets his mail; Collection and delivery in cities; Addresses; Postage and mail classification; Parcel post; Special services; Postal banking; Postal inspection and control; Policing the mails; World mail service; Economic utility of the post office; Foreign trade by post; Postal engineering; The human element; The post office department; Relation of the department to Congress and the people; Postal perspective; Comparative postal service; Philately.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

Among other tribes in the same district, the corpse after death is covered with leaves and surrounded with a large pile of wood which is set on fire, the friends dancing and singing round the flames until all is consumed, when the ashes are collected and buried in the ground.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft