In Drammen he had printed his brother’s journal, En Dagbog , and Rynning’s book was printed in Christiania.
— 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

JAW = Eigentümlichkeiten des Anglischen Wortschatzes, by R. Jordan (AF vol. 17), Heidelberg, 1906 JGPh = Journal of (English and) Germanic Philology, Urbana, Ill.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

The old man died during a second stroke, which took place just eight days after the first.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Is Mr. Brisbane, from the vantage point afforded by his position in national journalism, even dimly aware that there are elements in our industrial unrest which neither "capital" nor "labor" accurately define?
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

"Why, Jessamy," exclaimed Diana, as he placed the bag in the cart, "what's come t' your face?"
— from Peregrine's Progress by Jeffery Farnol

Coffee came into general use in England, according to John Evelyn ( Diary ), about 1667.
— from Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England: A History by Richard Valpy French

May Freedom be her very breath, Be Justice ever dear; And never an ennobled death May son of Ireland fear!
— from Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Thomas Osborne Davis

“I’ll run on ahead and see what’s doin’,” Jimmie exclaimed, darting away.
— from Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone; Or, The Plot Against Uncle Sam by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

As I have every morning been seated in the Chaise soon after sun-rise, I propose indulging to-morrow till eleven o'Clock, and going that day no farther than Ghent: on Wednesday the 29th instant I shall reach Ostend in good time, just eight days, according to my former reckoning, from Frankfort.
— from Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2) by Edward Gibbon

Preparations were hurriedly made, and on the 29th of June, eleven days after the battle of Waterloo, he left Malmaison, accompanied by Savary, Bertrand and Las Casas, and others of his attached servants, and attended by a guard of mounted men.
— from Military Career of Napoleon the Great An Account of the Remarkable Campaigns of the "Man of Destiny"; Authentic Anecdotes of the Battlefield as Told by the Famous Marshals and Generals of the First Empire by Montgomery B. Gibbs

I was growing too fast, which took what strength I had, and my journey every day, added to school work and home work, maybe was too much for my years.
— from Paul Kelver by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

The journeys each day averaged from twelve to fifteen miles, twelve, however, being the more ordinary distance.
— from Jack Archer: A Tale of the Crimea by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

I dismounted, but when I fell into what I supposed was going to be the line I found Lieutenant J. E. Dillard and J. B. Murphy, “us three, and no more.”
— from The Lone Star Defenders: A Chronicle of the Third Texas Cavalry, Ross' Brigade by S. B. (Samuel Benton) Barron

Joy, exquisite, dainty and as jubilant as her name suggested, had been surrounded from babyhood with every luxury, while Muriel had known but the bare necessities.
— from Rilla of the Lighthouse by Grace May North