The favorable report of these explorers relative to the fertility of the soil and the general character of the country on Koshkonong created considerable restlessness among the pioneers at Wind Lake, in Racine County, and many decided to remove to Dane County.
— 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

" "But what if the handwriting is a very uncommon one, presenting marked peculiarities by which it may be recognized among a hundred?" "Why, in that case the coincidence is rather curious," answered my lady; "but it is nothing more than a coincidence.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Success in war, like charity in religion, covers a multitude of sins.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Looking towards the setting sun, there lay, stretched out before my view, a vast expanse of level ground; unbroken, save by one thin line of trees, which scarcely amounted to a scratch upon the great blank; until it met the glowing sky, wherein it seemed to dip: mingling with its rich colours, and mellowing in its distant blue.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Allor Virgilio disse: <>; e io rispuosi come a me fu imposto.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

In the end it renders comic any mishap that befalls one through one's own fault, no matter what the fault or mishap may be,—nay, an allusion to this mishap, a single word that recalls it, is sufficient.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

Later on he publicly destroyed his British passport before the Statute of Liberty, declared in favour of the Irish Republican cause, and made a theatrical declaration of "war" on England....
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

If I shouldn't be alive When the robins come, Give the one in red cravat A memorial crumb.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

The modern Nismes, which in its ruins contains abundant marks of its ancient splendour.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Our tongue is rough, coz, and my condition is not smooth; so that, having neither the voice nor the heart of flattery about me, I cannot so conjure up the spirit of love in her that he will appear in his true likeness.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Our tongue is rough, coz, and my condition [5407] is not smooth; so that, having neither the voice nor the 275 heart of flattery about me, I cannot so conjure up the spirit [5408] of love in her, that he will appear in his true likeness.
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 4 of 9] by William Shakespeare

The dark product is treated with water, and gives a solution of osmium and ruthenium in the form of soluble salts, R 2 OsO 4 and R 2 RuO 4 , whilst the insoluble residue contains a mixture of oxides of iridium (and some osmium, rhodium, and ruthenium), and grains of metallic iridium still unacted on.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

It requires care and may cause disaster if it is upset, but it has been blamed unjustly in many accidents.
— from Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh

The industry could serve the public much better and become subject to a much more effective method of control if regional consolidations and more freedom in the formation of marketing associations, under the supervision of the Department of Commerce, were permitted.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

It recognises Christ as Master, and all His servants as brethren.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren

In a few days I regained confidence and made up my mind to write and tell my colonel frankly what I had done in ignorance of the rules of the service, and begging him to renew my application to the Horse Guards.
— from Recollections of a Peninsular Veteran by Joseph Jocelyn Anderson

I remember Coiffy," answered Montagu, laughing.
— from Lord Montagu's Page: An Historical Romance by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Opened the doors were at length, and in rushed curs and men,—eight dogs, the domestic chaplain, the village doctor, my six cousins, and my uncle.
— from A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools by Percy Lubbock

For the rehabilitation of the Philippine coffee industry robusta coffee appears more promising at present than any other kind.
— from The Philippine Agricultural Review. Vol. VIII, First Quarter, 1915 No. 1 by Various