In 1842 also, Samuel Clarke of Yorkshire, England, son of James and Judith A. Clarke, arrived, and located on Albion 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

“The state of affairs you expose there is assumed to exist as the first condition of your employment.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

SYN: Exhibit, bear, furbish, afford, cause, create, originate, yield, extend, prolong, lengthen.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The name is said by the Cherokee to be a corruption of Yufala (Eufaula), a well-known Creek local name.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

I can only suppose that the circumstances of your early life were too unfavourable to the development of your reasoning powers, and that we began too late.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

12, if you venture to say that, you will promote the cause of your enemy . sī fortūna volet, fīēs dē rhētore cōnsul; sī volet haec eadem, fīēs dē cōnsule rhētor , J. 7, 197, if fortune shall ordain, a magnate from a teacher thou shalt be; again shall she ordain, a teacher from a magnate shalt thou be .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Do you not consider the harm you may be doing yourself, and fear that malicious people, seeking the cause of your estrangement, may guess the real one?" "Madam," replied the vizir, "what you say is very just, but I cannot pardon Noureddin before I have mortified him as he deserves.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

And if, in spite of all we can say, your Excellency is bent upon entering into this war, see you that it be with all the circumspection and assurance that the fleet can command, in that it is more conducive to the interest of our said Lord to obtain possession and not to destroy the city now, since it can be destroyed at any time we please; because, in case of your Excellency's landing in Ormuz or at the city we are determined not to go with you, nor enter into such a war, nor such designs, and that this may be known for certain, and we be not able to deny it hereafter, we all sign our names here: this day, the 5th of the month of January, 1508.
— from Rulers of India: Albuquerque by H. Morse (Henry Morse) Stephens

But he had certainly not foretold the crisis of yesterday evening.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

"What do you mean?" "Well, Silas Lapham, if you can't see NOW that he's after Irene, I don't know what ever CAN open your eyes.
— from The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells

y e Expedition to Fyre Islande, feigning a Head-Ache, (wh. indeede I meante to do, in any Happ, for I cannot see Her againe,) & shall meet him at y e little Churche on y e Southe Roade.—He to drive to Islipp to fetch Angelica, lykewise her Witnesse, who sholde be some One of y
— from Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) by H. C. (Henry Cuyler) Bunner

A. Their answer was, that both these were without either truth or colour of y e same (as was proved to his face), and that they had taught and beleeved these things long before they knew M r .
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

Swell chance of YOU ever wanting to make a date!”
— from Missy by Dana Gatlin

6d.), of whose history you so falsely pretended yourself ignorant, and as I see no reason why I should be impoverished in consequence of your evil doings, I request you to repay me on your return from the continent the commission charged by H.M. Government (viz.
— from The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake by Graham Travers

"Merely the following, Sire," replied the minister, "that, in the course of yesterday evening, the famous fanatic minister, Claude de l'Estang, the great stay of the self-styled reformed church, who, on more than one occasion, in his youth opposed your royal father in arms, and has, through life, been the great friend and adviser of these Counts of Morseiul, arrived in Paris last night, sent a billet down to the Count this morning, and further, that the Count immediately went up to visit him.
— from The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants. Volumes I-III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James