Perhaps about five per cent of Norway’s population is engaged in intellectual work.
— 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 Holy and Profane State is chiefly a biographical record, the first part consisting of numerous historical examples to be imitated, the second of examples to be avoided.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Who is there in Germany and Italy who has not heard of the famous pantomime company of Nicolini?
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A most fowle unhandsome thing as ever was heard, for plain cowardice on Nixon’s part.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

After a long period of depression and the slow return of some fraction of its former prosperity, convulsions of nature have in our own day again made Chios a ruin.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

The smoke analysed was from a tobacco containing four per cent. of nicotine, but none of the alkaloid was found in the smoke.
— from Poison Romance and Poison Mysteries by C. J. S. (Charles John Samuel) Thompson

And then, you know, he launched into a quite feeling peroration concerning our notorious custom of tomahawking one another— "Yes," I coldly concluded into Mrs. Clement Dumby's ear, "we all behaved disgracefully.
— from The Cords of Vanity: A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell

And, thirdly, in all moral questions, we, of Christian nations, are compelled, by habit and training, as well as other causes, to derive our first principles, consciously or not, from the Scriptures.
— from Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey

CANADA That hardy mariner, Jacques Cartier, sailed up the St. Lawrence River in 1535, but it was not until 1608, when Champlain’s vessel brought the first permanent colonists of New France, that Quebec was founded.
— from Quaint and Historic Forts of North America by John Martin Hammond

The girl she addressed was a fragile, pretty creature of nineteen or twenty, looking more as if a puff of wind would blow her away than as if she was capable of doing the dirty work of a kitchenmaid.
— from Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie

Notwithstanding the great difficulty of convincing a person who habitually uses extra stimulants, narcotics, or any medicinal agents, all the way from rum, opium, and tobacco, down to tea, coffee, and saleratus, that they are injuring him at all, as long as he does not feel very ill, yet it ought to be clearly and fully known that every one who is thus addicted to unnatural habits, and being thus addicted is seized with disease of any kind and from any cause whatever, is certain to have that disease with greater severity than if his habits had been, from the first, perfectly correct or normal.
— from Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

The crew of the mistico, now that they felt pretty certain of not being captured, cheered and laughed, and called out to them, using every device to enrage them, and induce them to follow.
— from The Pirate of the Mediterranean: A Tale of the Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

A most fowle unhandsome thing as ever was heard, for plain cowardice on Nixon's part.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S. by Samuel Pepys