From Næs in Hallingdal we find Knud R. Væterud, a widower, and his two daughters, Ingeborg and Rönnau, besides Lars O. Lie, and from Modum, Thov Modum and wife Karen; finally Krödsherred is represented by Even Fingerson Foslien.
— 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

The name of its king is Raia Babintan.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

However that may be, A spirit dwells in such as we; It moves our limbs; we feel its mandates now; We see and know it rules, but know not how: Nor shall we know, indeed, Till in the breast of God we read.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

The goddess Kalimukkamma is represented by a paper or wooden mask painted black, with protruding tongue.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

It is, however, very troublesome to keep in repair, because the pipes, which are intended to hold the water that comes dripping down the walls all round, cannot take it quickly enough as it runs down from the channels, but get too full and run over, thus spoiling the woodwork and the walls of houses of this style.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

The smack started off again, riding on the waves, tossed, shaken, dripping, buffeted by masses of water, but game in spite of everything; accustomed to this boisterous weather, which sometimes kept it roving between the two neighboring countries without its being able to make port in either.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

N. B. Any Person may agree by the Great, and be kept in Repair by the Year.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

V. In this point the imitation has especially preserved the likeness of the work, because, as Plato, in the conclusion of his volume, represents a certain person who had returned to life, which he appeared to have quitted, as indicating what is the condition of souls when stripped of the 456 body, with the addition of a certain not unnecessary description of the spheres and stars, an appearance of circumstances indicating things of the same kind is related by the Scipio of Cicero, as having been brought before him in sleep.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

But Jason spoke cheering words and restrained her grief. (ll. 109-122) Now at the hour when men have cast sleep from their eyes~huntsmen, who, trusting to their bounds, never slumber away the end of night, but avoid the light of dawn lest, smiting with its white beams, it efface the track and scent of the quarry—then did Aeson's son and the maiden step forth from the ship over a grassy spot, the "Ram's couch" as men call it, where it first bent its wearied knees in rest, bearing on its back the Minyan son of Athamas.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

We find the King initiating reform by reducing the expenses of his household.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Returning on our course, we came back to Karnah, then went south to the neighborhood of the Itiblu Glacier, then northwest again by a devious course around the islands and the points to Kookan, in Robertson Bay, then to Nerke, on C. Saumarez, then on to Etah, where we joined the Roosevelt , having obtained all the Eskimos and dogs we needed,—two hundred and forty-six of the latter, to be exact.
— from The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary

" This would seem to assert that only being can be known, or that whatever is known is real being, which is going too far and falling into ontologism.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
— from Some Account of Llangollen and Its Vicinity Including a Circuit of About Seven Miles by W. T. (Wilfrid Tord) Simpson

“Who ‘ll know it?” returned Bompard, cynically.
— from Tartarin On The Alps by Alphonse Daudet

“Sure I know it,” replied Bob, breathing rather quickly, for he was quite stout, as his nickname of “Chunky” implied; and he had hurried from his house to see his two chums, Jerry Hopkins and Ned Slade.
— from The Motor Boys in the Clouds; or, A Trip for Fame and Fortune by Clarence Young

They were not much known in Rājputāna, but were very prominent in the Deccan.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

The other Jewish rhyme, kept in remembrance by modern Jews, is printed at the end of their Passover Service in English and in Hebrew.
— from A History of Nursery Rhymes by Percy B. Green

"I know," I replied, "but this six-cylindered existence for a week wears you out."
— from The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

At the mouth of the River is a Countrey called Cuttata women, upwards is Marraugh tacum Tapohanock, Apparnatuck, and Nantaugs tacum, at Topmanahocks, the head issuing from many Mountains, the next night I lodged at a hunting town of Powhatam's, and the next day arrived at Waranacomoco upon the river of Parnauncke, where the great king is resident: by the way we passed by the top of another little river, which is betwixt the two called Payankatank.
— from Captain John Smith by Charles Dudley Warner

Klotz, Strathy and Curry at Amesbury Sailing down the St. Lawrence, near Bic Church Parade Eastern Ontario Regiment, near Stonehenge Manœuvres on Salisbury Plain Field Kitchen in Reserve Billets Amateur Theatricals Back of the Line The Distillery at Givenchy Our Support Trenches at Givenchy After Givenchy Entrance to Plugstreet Wood Our Trenches, Plugstreet Wood Our Trenches at Plugstreet The Start of the Smoke Clouds The Cactus Treen After a Few Shells and a Week's Rain FROM THE ST.
— from From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade by Frederic C. Curry