A daughter, Gro, married Peder Larsen Svartskuren (or Svartskor) in Norway, in June, 1842.
— 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

Beyond the goal of nature I have gone: My Pallas late set out, but reach’d too soon.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

A good many people learn some, then stop.
— from James Gilmour of Mongolia: His diaries, letters, and reports by James Gilmour

Their Gallies may perhaps lacke such yong men as we, And thus it may fall in our laps, all Galeyslaues to be, During our life, and this, we shall be sure to haue, Although we row, such meate as is the allowance of a slaue.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt

A few stray plants there were, which, possibly for some slight defect in the shape or colour of the blooms, had not been included in the show collection; and to the uninitiated these gave most pleasure, left standing in the open, their colour blending harmoniously with that of the wistaria blossoms.
— from The flowers and gardens of Japan by Florence Du Cane

By the end of the eighteenth century people were beginning to be concerned at the ignorance of the great masses of the people in this country, and we find that in a good many places little schools were being kept, taught by the parish 165 clerk or by some old lady; and here and there we find attempts being made to form parish schools.
— from Social Life in England Through the Centuries by H. R. Wilton Hall

“Goodbye, Mr. Piff!” laughed Sunny.
— from The Brownie Scouts at Windmill Farm by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

So it is not surprising that she was not always the Grand Mogul, poor little soul!
— from The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake by Graham Travers