Other settlers came in subsequent years, more and more now coming directly from Norway to La Salle County.
— 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

[61] Iver Waller, who bought a claim of Miss Pearson in 1835, came directly from Norway to La Salle County that year.
— 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

Much concealed goodness and power is never dreamt of; the choicest dainties find no tasters!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The lightning flared again, a long quivering stroke, and the heads of half a dozen men appeared at the crest of the chevaux de frise , not twenty feet away.
— from The Quest of the Four: A Story of the Comanches and Buena Vista by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

As it is allowable to illustrate spiritual things by means of comparisons drawn from natural things, these will serve to illustrate how interior things, which are spiritual and celestial, and by which a man of the church has communication and conjunction with the heavens, can be drawn and called forth and extracted and eliminated from the Word in its outmosts, that is, the sense of the letter.
— from Spiritual Life and the Word of God by Emanuel Swedenborg

[97] Later in the day, Maurepas, in his capacity of Minister for Paris, wrote to the Lieutenant of Police, informing him that it was the intention of Cardinal de Fleury not to interfere in the matter of ecclesiastical burial, but to leave it entirely to the discretion of the Archbishop of Paris and the curé of Saint-Sulpice.
— from Queens of the French Stage by H. Noel (Hugh Noel) Williams

The present and very famous Old Courthouse, dating from near the mid-19th century, stands near this site.
— from Colonial Homes in North Carolina by John V. Allcott

replegiatus ad legem de clan Macduff, per dominum Robertum comitem de Fyfe non tenebatur coram quocunque alio de dicta interfectione judiciari, quosque dicta lex de clan Macduff suo intemerata privilegio de ipso ut prædicitur ad ipsam legem atto.
— from Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 3 (of 3) Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Walter Scott

Nay, we are { 200} forced to confess, without the actual Character disclosed from Nazareth to Calvary, the Ideal would never have been conceived.
— from Modern Substitutes for Christianity by Pearson M'Adam Muir

Every now and then he cast an eye to the patting rain and floating streets, and thanked Heaven which had set the fruits of fortune ripened for his plucking, and given him that which made life like a full cup, that he could drink from, nor tire of.
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

It mercifully happens that sudden calamity carries its own anæsthetic in that it blinds, confuses, destroys feeling, numbs the faculties that ought to register its importance.
— from The Settler by Herman Whitaker

The Centry, Deepwater, for nine thousand. Once—[Taps] Twice——[Taps].
— from Plays : Fourth Series by John Galsworthy