Thus, while Jacob Slogvig, the brother, was one of a few to secure land in La Salle County and make the beginnings of settlement, Knud became the means of bringing hosts of immigrants from Norway to recruit the colony and start it upon its course of growth.
— 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

Again; suppose, that, though the necessities of human race continue the same as at present, yet the mind is so enlarged, and so replete with friendship and generosity, that every man has the utmost tenderness for every man, and feels no more concern for his own interest than for that of his fellows; it seems evident, that the use of justice would, in this case, be suspended by such an extensive benevolence, nor would the divisions and barriers of property and obligation have ever been thought of.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

But, as to Mr. Franklin’s bedroom (if that is to be put back to what it was before), I want to know who is responsible for keeping it in a perpetual state of litter, no matter how often it may be set right—his trousers here, his towels there, and his French novels everywhere.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

And there was Higginbotham’s Cash Store, that monument of his own industry and ability.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Further, when she sees her husband not very eager about money, and instead of battling and railing in the law courts or assembly, taking whatever happens to him quietly; and when she observes that his thoughts always centre in himself, while he treats her with very considerable indifference, she is annoyed, and says to her son that his father is only half a man and far too easy-going: adding all the other complaints about her own ill-treatment which women are so fond of rehearsing.
— from The Republic by Plato

Had our instruments permitted it, we might have seen the gathering trouble far back in the nineteenth century.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

"A weary and lonesome time yonder old couple have of it," remarked the old woman, smiling in the lady's face.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I hadn’t seen no house out in the country before that was so nice and had so much style.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Thereupon said Pompeius: “With great pleasure I present you with the soldier’s crown, because you have vindicated the honor of the Roman name; nevertheless,” said he, “may my eyes drip out” (imitating the unseemly act with which the Soldier had accompanied his oath), “if you did not carry off my property from among the baggage.”
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

With tears in her sweet eyes, my mother told me how fond the father was of Lucy's pet, and how strangely the cat had acted in staying on Lucy's grave all the time until Mr. Bray took him away by force and carried him off in the carriage with him.
— from When Grandmamma Was New: The Story of a Virginia Childhood by Marion Harland

Yet even now, in its artless babyhood, the shadow of a dark shame was hovering over its golden head, the name it bore was already smirched in the eyes of the world, and its father, who was responsible to God for its well-being, had already degraded it by his own shameful passion.
— from Whom God Hath Joined: A Question of Marriage by Fergus Hume

The Sevastopol showed signs of settling down, so that night steam was got up for the last time, and the gallant commander with a few picked men took her out into deep water, opened the sluice-cocks, and then, taking to his launch, pulled away a bit and watched the great battleship settle down stern first in the dim and misty moonlight.
— from The Romance of Modern Sieges Describing the personal adventures, resource and daring of besiegers and beseiged in all parts of the world by Edward Gilliat

The only town in England that can give you any notion of Rouen, is CHESTER; although the similitude holds only in some few particulars.
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

"A woman can have no house of her own in the Three Universes," declared an old Japanese proverb.
— from Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation by Lafcadio Hearn

The two groups of functions of matter, which we have opposed in this table, may, to some extent, be regarded as the outcome of the first “division of labor” in the development of matter, the “primary ergonomy of matter.”
— from The Riddle of the Universe at the close of the nineteenth century by Ernst Haeckel

in one night our poor little schoolhouse was burned to the ground, with our Mason and Hamlin organ in it.
— from Palmetto-Leaves by Harriet Beecher Stowe

After a minute or two, three of them got hold of it, and with the other four as spectators or mourners, they dragged it for about six feet and concealed it under a leaf, after which they returned home; all this was most fascinating.
— from The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

Urbaine had said of him once in speaking to Martin; "and to him the soil of France
— from The Scourge of God: A Romance of Religious Persecution by John Bloundelle-Burton

When Philip heard of it, he cried out, "My heart breaks; now I am ready to die."
— from The Beginner's American History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery