Of his eight children, three are living: Peter S. Anderson, Newell, Iowa, Daniel K. Anderson and Mrs. Martha Brunkow of Woodford, Wisconsin.
— 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 great phenomena of nature, the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, eclipses, comets; thunder and lightning, and other extraordinary meteors; the generation, the life, growth, and dissolution of plants and animals; are objects which, as they necessarily excite the wonder, so they naturally call forth the curiosity of mankind to inquire into their causes.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

It is increasingly regarded as a means for the display of elaborate conceits, till at last nothing remains but bombast and verbal jugglery.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

[Footnote: An aoristic tense consists of but one word (ending in -as , -os , etc.) and expresses an act or state as a whole, without specifying whether it is finished, still in progress, or yet begun. ] -----------------------------097.png---------------------------- Compound tenses occur less often in Esperanto than in English, and an aoristic Esperanto tense may often be translated by an English compound tense, as La birdoj flugas , the birds are flying .
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

He says again elsewhere: “ Ie n’ay pas plus faict mon livre, que mon livre m’a faict; livre consubstantiel à son aucteur, d’une occupation propre, membre de ma vie, non d’une occupation et fin tierce et estrangiere, comme touts aultres livres .”
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

"Their oars our king's men handle well, One stroke is all the eye can tell: All level o'er the water rise; The girls look on in sweet surprise.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

This was disregarded at first as having been thrown out at random, afterwards it began to be canvassed in conversation; until one of the Roman soldiers on guard asked one of the townsmen who was nearest him (a conversational intercourse having now taken place in consequence of the long continuance of the war) who he was, who threw out those dark expressions concerning the Alban lake?
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The boy set out with this letter; but he lost his way, and in the evening came to a large forest.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The proximity and conduct of the enemy control, to a large extent, the formation of a rear guard.
— from The Plattsburg Manual: A Handbook for Military Training by E. B. (Enoch Barton) Garey

Now make an end and [Pg 123] trouble me no more, for, had I fifty lives, and each could take a lifetime in dying, I still would not do this thing which thou dost command, thou bloodthirsty and wicked pirate of the Northland."
— from Wulnoth the Wanderer: A Story of King Alfred of England by Herbert Inman

[?], it would seem that the change in the distribution of matter which motion effects, coming to a limit in whichever direction it is carried [?], the indestructible motion thereupon necessitates a reverse distribution.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

In a letter to a correspondent, she says: “Do not think that I blaspheme, when I tell you that your great London, as compared to Dunedin, ‘mine own romantic town,’ is as prose compared to poetry; or as a great rumbling, rambling, heavy epic compared to a lyric, brief, bright, clear, and vital as a flash of lightning.
— from Model Women by William Anderson

The people went everywhere catching these, and looking for anything that might have been dropped into the water.
— from Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers Artemus Ward, George Macdonald, Max Adeler, Samuel Lover, and Others by Various

Now, if these gentlemen did not intend, by this somewhat delicate moral, any insinuation against the existing state of things (which, being lawyers, and therefore courtiers, there is good motive to believe they did not), it is, at all events, certain that, as lawyers, they ought to have known better how to steer clear of all offence to weak consciences.
— from The Book of Christmas Descriptive of the Customs, Ceremonies, Traditions, Superstitions, Fun, Feeling, and Festivities of the Christmas Season by Thomas K. Hervey

Even as he spoke, he was conscious that the angry wonder in her eyes changed to a look that was almost one of contempt; and the colour surged back into his face, until his cheeks burned with it.
— from The Fortune of the Landrays by Vaughan Kester

It is true that many of the postmasters were friendly to the administration; but it is equally certain, that a large proportion of them warmly espoused the cause of the opposition.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis