Reverend K. A. Kasberg of Spring Grove, Minnesota, has given me certain important data on part of the immigration to East Koshkonong in 1842, and similarly N. A. Lie of Deerfield, Wisconsin, for immigration from Voss in 1838–1844, and Mr. Elim Ellingson and wife of Capron, Illinois, on the founders of the Long Prairie Settlement.
— 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

These facts are told me by Reverend K. A. Kasberg of Spring Grove, Minnesota, as related by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Halvor Kravik, who was in the party (she was Kristi Kristoffersen).
— 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

[267] Rev. K. A. Kasberg, of Spring Grove, Minn., writes me that Halvor Kravik in speaking of some of these people says Halvor Aasen went to Rock Run as did also Paal “Spellemand.”
— 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

Rational knowledge and knowledge of spiritual things is supposed, on the contrary, to spring from activity initiated within the mind, an activity carried on better if it is kept remote from all sullying touch of the senses and external objects.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Jim knowed all kinds of signs.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

—The Greeks, in the course of a life that was always surrounded by great dangers and cataclysms, endeavoured to find in meditation and knowledge a kind of security of feeling, a last refugium .
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

eschew, keep from, let alone, have nothing to do with; keep aloof keep off, stand aloof, stand off, hold aloof, hold off; take no part in, have no hand in. avoid, shun; steer clear of, keep clear of; fight shy of; keep one's distance, keep at a respectful distance; keep out of the way, get out of the way; evade, elude, turn away from; set one's face against &c. (oppose) 708; deny oneself.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Those ancient limits extend eight leagues towards the north, from thence they run in a direct line through the district of Kexholm, to the place where the harbour of Porogerai, which begins near the town of Kudumagube, joins to the ancient limits, between Russia and Sweden, so that his majesty the king and kingdom of Sweden, shall henceforth possess all that part lying west and north beyond the above specified limits, and his czarish majesty and the empire of Russia all that part which is situated east and south of the said limits.
— from The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia by Voltaire

but just like you would kiss a kid or something after they fell down and hurt themself.
— from The Real Dope by Ring Lardner

The Moors are not allowed by their law more than four wives, but they may have as many concubines as they can maintain; accordingly, the wealthy Moors, besides their wives, keep a kind of seraglio of women of all colours.
— from Travels through the Empire of Morocco by John Buffa

As in Mr. Gough's cards, so in these, there is no Queen; though, like them, there appears to have been three "coat" cards in each suit, namely, a King, a Knight, or Superior Officer, and a Knave, or Servant; in other words, King, Jack, and Jack's Man.
— from Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards by William Andrew Chatto

I know all kinds of strange words and names, and, as I told you before, I sometimes hit people when they put me out.
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by George Borrow

umbrell, umbrella, unco, unknown; odd; strange; uncouth, also very great un'er, under, un'erstan', understand, up the stair, upstairs, upliftit, uplifted, upo', upon; on to; at, up-road, road (to heaven), up's, up his, vailue, value, vainity, vanity, verra, very; true; real, v'ice, voice, vreet, write, vroucht, wrought; worked, wa', wall, also way wad, would, wadna, would not, wae, woe; sad; sorrowful, waggin', wagging; nodding, waitin', waiting, waitit, waited, walcome, welcome, walkin', walking, w'alth, wealth; abundance, wan, reached; gained; got, wantin', wanting; lacking; without; in want of, wantit, wanted, war, were, wark, work; labour, warks, works, warl', world; worldly goods, also a large number warl' 's gear, worldly substance, warld, world, warna, were not, warran', warrant; guarantee, warrin', warring, warst, worst, warstle, wrestle, warstlin', wrestling, wa's, walls, also ways washen, washed, washin', washing, wasna, was not, was't, was it, wasterfu', wasteful; extravagant, water-brose, oatmeal stirred into boiling, water until thick wather, weather, watter, water, watters, waters, waur, worse, also spend money wee, small; little; bit, also short time; while weel, well; fine, weel-behaved, well-behaved, weel's, well as, weet, wet; dew; rain, weetin', wetting; getting wet, weicht, weight, weir, wear, also hedge; fence; enclosure weird, doom; disaster, weirs, wears, weyve, weave; knit, weyver, weaver; knitter, also knitter of stockings; spider wha, who, whae'er, whoever, wha'll, who will, whan, when, wharfor, what for; why; for what reason, wha's, who is, also whose What ca' they ye?, What is your name?, What for no?, Why not?, What for?, Why?, whaten, (on; by) what; what kind of, what-for, why; reason, also punishment; retribution whaul, whale, whaur, where, whause, whose, wheel, eddy; pool; deep still part of the river, wheen, little; few; number; quantity, whiles, sometimes; at times; now and then, whilk, which, Whisht!, Quiet!
— from Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald

We kept a kind of social hall or exchange, with wine and cigars on the side-table, all of which dropping in and out rather reminded me of Princeton.
— from Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland