[413] Ole E. Sanden, with wife Guro and family, located in the eastern settlement.
— 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

One cannot work for long in the elementary school, however, without becoming involved in research which has to do with the secondary school.
— from Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development by Leta Stetter Hollingworth

He has been severely censured by some Irish writers for landing in the extreme South, within fourteen miles of the English arsenal and head-quarters at Cork, and for his general conduct as a commander.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2 by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

We arrived in Marseilles, about two hundred miles distant from Lyons, in the evening, stopping at the Hotel du Louvre et de le Paix—a very fine establishment.
— from Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey) Snow

The apple trees are hers as much as mine, and she has an average of ten different bird families, living in them every spring.
— from The Lay of the Land by Dallas Lore Sharp

Here he mounted with the children, who, with their entrance-cards stuck in their hats round which green veils were twisted, looked very like those personages in Liliputian pantomimes whose entire funniness lies in the enormous size of their heads compared with their small legs and dwarf-like gestures.
— from The Nabob by Alphonse Daudet

Some observations of my own will fill a few lacunæ in the English scientist's monograph.
— from The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Jean-Henri Fabre

But when the moment came, and he was about to take the part of God toward the piece of flesh lying in the ether sleep before him, he hesitated.
— from The Master of the Inn by Robert Herrick

Was that the captain's figure on the bridge, looming black against the faint light in the eastern sky?
— from Story of Chester Lawrence Being the Completed Account of One who Played an Important Part in "Piney Ridge Cottage" by Nephi Anderson

In attempting to reproduce the conditions of family life in the early settlements and towns of colonial days, we turn quite naturally to the newspapers, whose appearance in the first quarter of the eighteenth century was gladly welcomed by the people of their time, and whose files are now eagerly searched for items of great or small importance.
— from Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book by Rosalie Vrylina Halsey