Among those who located at Rock Run in the forties were Hovel Paulson (born 1817) from North Land Parish, Norway, who located near Davis in 1846; [101] Christian Lunde, also from Land, Norway, came to Rock Run in 1848 and later moved to Goodhue County, Minnesota; Narve Stabæk, Torsten Knudson and Nels Nelson, all three from Numedal; Gunder O. Halvorson, from Kragerö; Svale Nilson, from Bukn Parish, Stavanger; Gunder Halvorson, from Telemarken, and Lars O. Anderson.
— 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

Macbeth came later, and found the daggers lying by the grooms; and soon with red hands he appeared before his wife, saying, “Methought I heard a voice cry, 'Sleep no more!
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

But the days of true heroism are over, when a citizen fought for his country like a Fabricius or a Washington, and then returned to his farm to let his virtuous fervour run in a more placid, but not a less salutary stream.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

And the lion, meantime, shook his ponderous chain, Loud and fierce howled the tiger, impatient to stain The bloodthirsty arena; Whilst the women of Rome, who applauded those deeds And who hailed the forthcoming enjoyment, must needs Shame the restless hyena.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Their faces are shining—they present arms—there comes the General—but his face I cannot look at for the glory round his head.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Kalganov went off into the most childish laughter, almost falling on the sofa.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In a strange city lying alone Far down within the dim West, Wherethe good and the bad and the worst and the best Have gone to their eternal rest.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Contentment will make a cottage look as fair as a palace.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

A neat little shrubby plant, with small ovate, coriaceous leaves, and fragrant yellow and cream flowers.
— from Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster

If we consider the four types of serif, as applicable to straight-pen writing , we find— [p245] (a) Hooks or Beaks Suitable only for certain parts of certain letters (and for informal writing).
— from Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering by Edward Johnston

That day was of the correct length, about fourteen hours and fifty minutes long.
— from The Solar Magnet by S. P. (Sterner St. Paul) Meek

He was then thirty-three years of age, with just half a century, lacking a few months, yet to live.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors by Elbert Hubbard

The afternoon was very cold, a fact thoroughly realised by Mrs. Alexander, on the front seat of Sir George's motor-car, in spite of enveloping furs, and of Bismarck, curled like a fried whiting, in her lap.
— from All on the Irish Shore: Irish Sketches by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

She went back to college, to all the engrossing interests of college life, and Florella returned with her aunt to London, for a winter to be spent partly in the ordinary duties and pleasures of a young lady at home, and partly in the steady and careful study of her art.
— from Waynflete by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

The wooden features of the windows exhibit a curiously light and flimsy construction.
— from A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Victor Mindeleff

From Bologna, also, came the monk Gratian, who drew up the accepted text-book of canon law, as followed in all Church courts.
— from Early European History by Hutton Webster

Our dresses are almost untouched, while you can sail grandly along the decks of the ‘Consternation’ like a fully rigged yacht.
— from A Rock in the Baltic by Robert Barr