It keeps long if care be taken to air it and stir it about; and although not so good to the taste or look as new rice, it is said to be more wholesome."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

[258] Finally I shall add the names of Björn A. Stondall and Björn Stevens Hustvedt, two of Cottage Grove’s well known early pioneers, who emigrated in 1843 and stopped through the winter in Muskego; thence they came to Koshkonong, locating in Cottage Grove in the spring of 1844.
— 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

In the summer of 1846 then, Valle and Kittelsland located in Clayton County, [409] buying a farm together, about three miles southeast of the present village of St. Olaf.
— 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

Memory is the receptacle and case of science: and therefore mine being so treacherous, if I know little, I cannot much complain.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Electroliers in candlesticks were never good style, and kerosene lamps in candlesticks—horrible!
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Makangálan kug bayinti ka langgam, I can name twenty kinds of birds.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The juice is also good for all the said griefs, and likewise to kill lice in children’s heads.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

While the military establishments were given jurisdiction over propaganda activities connected with actual combat, other propaganda activities were kept largely in civilian hands, though simultaneously the direction of civilian policy at its very highest level became para-military through the influence of the National Security Council.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

After admonishing them to give heed to the law of Moses, as he foresaw that for a long time to come they would not understand it spiritually and rightly, he went on to say, "And, behold, I will send to you Elias the Tishbite before the great and signal day of the Lord come: and he shall turn the heart of the father to the son, and the heart of a man to his next of kin, lest I come and utterly smite the earth."
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Son of Dr. Robert Batty, of Hastings (who was born at Kirby Lonsdale in co. Westmoreland).
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

When I went over to Lourdes, last year, I made a point of looking up the families of the people that had the visions, and they all kept larks in cages——" I saw he was following some train of thought and kept silence.
— from The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon by Josephine Daskam Bacon

“Well, you know, Lorraine, I could scarcely do that.
— from Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

“What was the kitchen like?” inquired Connie curiously.
— from The Brownie Scouts at Snow Valley by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

The three Wise men, Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard, were kings, living in countries widely separated; yet each one saw a wonderful brilliant star,
— from Bolax, Imp or Angel—Which? by Josephine Culpeper

There can be no doubt that when Kopisch landed in Capri during the summer of 1826 the blue grotto was practically unknown.
— from Naples, Past and Present by Arthur H. (Arthur Hamilton) Norway

In obedience I rose, opened with the key upon my chain the big safe, and took out the small morocco-bound volume containing the secret cipher by means of which His Excellency could communicate with Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs—a book supplied only to ambassadors themselves; and, because it is kept locked, its contents are never seen even by the staff of an embassy.
— from Her Majesty's Minister by William Le Queux

I saw in the van of the Christian array, a knight locked in complete black steel, and enveloped in all the magnificent panoply of war.
— from The Duke's Prize; a Story of Art and Heart in Florence by Maturin Murray Ballou

The bison has never been kept long in captivity, and there is only one instance of its having been so, and that is in the case of a bull bison now in possession of His Highness the Maharajah of Mysore.
— from Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore With chapters on coffee planting in Coorg, the Mysore representative assembly, the Indian congress, caste and the Indian silver question, being the 38 years' experiences of a Mysore planter by Robert H. (Robert Henry) Elliot

Keep lemons in cold water.
— from Civic League Cook Book by North Dakota) Civic League (Williston

But I am without friends, unused to business, and, by long retirement, unacquainted alike with the laws of the land and the habits of the living generation; and when, most unexpectedly, I find myself immersed in the matters of which I know least, I catch, like a drowning man, at the first support that offers.
— from The Antiquary — Complete by Walter Scott