Another passenger on Enigheden was Christopher Danielson from Aardal, in Lower Ryfylke.
— 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

They held that interior grace is irresistible, and that Christ died for all, in reaction against the ordinary Catholic dogma of the freedom of the will, and merely sufficient grace.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

"These composers," Captain Nemo answered me, "are the contemporaries of Orpheus, because in the annals of the dead, all chronological differences fade; and I'm dead, professor, quite as dead as those friends of yours sleeping six feet under!"
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

The room, which had been prepared for us on the fourth floor, was small but cheerful, decently furnished, and inexpensive.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

So Ali Cogia disappeared for an instant, and then pretended to lay a vase at the feet of the Cadi, declaring it was his vase, which he had given to the accused for safe custody; and in order to be quite correct, the Cadi asked the merchant if he recognised it as the same vase.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

"Sire," he said, "it is not possible that you can doubt for an instant what reply you should give to such an insolent bargain.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Seeing the obscurity which envelops the discourse of lovers, it would not be prudent to push too far conclusions drawn from an isolated detail of their conversation.
— from On Love by Stendhal

The same may be affirmed of S. Stefano in Rimini, of S. Martino in Ravenna, and of the Church of S. Giovanni Evangelista, erected in the same city by Galla Placidia about the year of our salvation 438; of S. Vitale, which was erected in the year 547, of the Abbey of Classi di Fuori, and in short of many other monasteries and churches erected after the Lombard rule.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

Thus, a wounded prince or bandit chief, who is bleeding to death and too faint to move, except to the softest music (and then only upon his hands and knees), shall be seen to approach a cottage door for aid in such a series of writhings and twistings, and with such curlings up of the legs, and such rollings over and over, and such gettings up and tumblings down again, as could never be achieved save by a very strong man skilled in posture-making.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Now my uncle knew many of them personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my mind.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

The next day's journey took them up the north fork of Healy Creek, and they camped a few miles from Simpson Pass, crossing the continental divide from Alberta into British Columbia the following morning.
— from Among the Canadian Alps by Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone) Burpee

I remember perfectly well to-day the profound veneration with which this excellent man spoke to me of one of his former professors of Soreze, whom he called Don Ferlus; and I must have had a defective memory indeed had I forgotten a name which I heard repeated so often.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy

Hands were called down from aloft immediately, and action stations sounded on the alarm gong.
— from Q-Ships and Their Story by E. Keble (Edward Keble) Chatterton

His daughter did, on this occasion, as she was bid, and soon called down from above, "It's old Radford, sure enough; but he's got two men with him!"
— from The Smuggler: A Tale. Volumes I-III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

He looked at the closed door for an instant, and then dropped to his knees and kissed the step on which she had stood.
— from The Sherrods by George Barr McCutcheon

This amount deducted from the observed total leaves the extra amount of carbon dioxide formed, and it is this quantity which is equivalent to the phosphate added.
— from Alcoholic Fermentation Second Edition, 1914 by Arthur Harden

"Sweeping in a great arc over sixteen degrees of latitude and fifty-eight degrees of longitude," it is no less than four, and some might say five, different countries, differing from one another in almost every way that one country can differ from another: in climate, in population, in resources, in requirements; and— (3) These different countries are not merely different from one another, they are separated from one another by formidable natural barriers.
— from Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Hudson Stuck

they are much larger than the common dunghill fowls, and in their habits and manner of flying resemble the growse or prarie hen.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark