Erik K. Berg and his brother Truls Berg, Ole Trulson Ve and Ole Gulsen (Tröstem) with wife and son Gul and daughter Guri, Erik Ovestrud, Tideman Kvarve, Guttorm Megaarden, a Mr. Sagdalen and wife, Kari, [200] Levor Kvarve and family of twelve, and Knut Guttormsen Tyrebakken.
— 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

Juan Suarez Vivas with 350 Portuguese, who commanded at Iller, defended that post for some time with great gallantry and did great execution among the enemy; but at length, overpowered by numbers, was forced to retire.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr

In 1754 an English provincial Synod was held here, at which the minister of the brethren’s church at London, John Gambold, a divine greatly esteemed for his piety and learning by several English bishops, who were his cotemporaries at Oxford, was consecrated a bishop of the church of the brethren; he had previously published a hymn book for the children belonging to the brethren’s congregation, printed entirely with his own hands at Lindsey House.
— from Chelsea, in the Olden & Present Times by George Bryan

But if you’d see him in his proper place, Making the browns for bub and grub and doss , Go East among the merchants and their men, And where the press is noisiest, and the tides Of trade run highest and widest, there and then You shall behold him, edging with equal strides Along the kerb; hawking in either hand Some artful nothing made of twine and tin, Cardboard and foil and bits of rubber band: Some penn’orth of wit-in-fact that, with a grin, The careful City marvels at, and buys For nurselings in the Suburbs to despise!
— from Hawthorn and Lavender, with Other Verses by William Ernest Henley

KEITH JOHNSTON'S SCHOOL ATLASES:– General and Descriptive Geography , exhibiting the Actual and Comparative Extent of all the Countries in the World, with their present Political Divisions.
— from Catalogue of Messrs Blackwood and Sons' Publications Published in 1868 as a Part of The Handy Horse-Book by Maurice Hartland Mahon by William Blackwood and Sons

Spesa per guanti a Don Giovanni e Don Rodrigo Borgia. October 16th.
— from Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Ferdinand Gregorovius

In the action of 12th July, 1915, in which the battalion captured three lines of Turkish trenches in Gallipoli, Piper Mackenzie went into action armed with a revolver and a shovel, displaying great gallantry and doing great execution with both these weapons until he was wounded.
— from The Pipes of War A Record of Achievements of Pipers of Scottish and Overseas Regiments during the War, 1914-18 by John (Pipe-Major) Grant

Presently the young men came in, and the lasses having changed their rustic garb for holiday gowns and dangling gold ear-drops, we walked in procession across fields to the rendezvous.
— from A July Holiday in Saxony, Bohemia, and Silesia by Walter White