To Rock Prairie, Koshkonong or Norway Grove, as the case might be, required another week, and correspondingly more for those bound for more westerly settlements.
— 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

It was called the blood-beech—a kind of negro growing among the other trees, so dark brown were the leaves.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I know of no greater absurdity than that propounded by most systems of philosophy in declaring evil to be negative in its character.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

He recounted all the evils the West Gautlanders were suffering under; that they must go without all the things from Norway which were necessary in their households; and, on the other hand, were exposed to attack and hostility whenever the king of Norway gathered an army and made an inroad on them.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

] H2 anchor THE TEMPEST DRAMATIS PERSONAE ALONSO, King of Naples SEBASTIAN, his brother PROSPERO, the right Duke of Milan ANTONIO, his brother, the usurping Duke of Milan FERDINAND, son to the King of Naples GONZALO, an honest old counsellor Lords ADRIAN FRANCISCO CALIBAN, a savage and deformed slave TRINCULO, a jester STEPHANO, a drunken butler MASTER OF A SHIP BOATSWAIN MARINERS MIRANDA, daughter to Prospero ARIEL, an airy spirit Spirits IRIS CERES JUNO NYMPHS REAPERS Other Spirits attending on Prospero SCENE: A ship at sea; afterwards an uninhabited island THE TEMPEST ACT I. SCENE 1 On a ship at sea; a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard Enter a SHIPMASTER and a BOATSWAIN MASTER.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

94 sqq. , 97 sq. ; played by the Kai of New Guinea as charms for the good of the crops, vii.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

There are all kinds of Nats, good and bad, great and little, male and female, now living round about us.
— from The Soul of a People by H. (Harold) Fielding

The inconsistency manifest between Romney's wanton cruelty in his domestic character, and his reputation among his intimates and contemporaries for great kindliness of nature, generosity, and general worth, is remarkable enough.
— from Art in England: Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook

'I do not fear you, though I know of no guardian angels but my innocence and fortitude.'
— from Secresy; or, Ruin on the Rock by E. (Eliza) Fenwick

Great excitement prevailed at the latter place, where preparations had been made to give the invaders a warm reception.——Panama papers record the successful result of an expedition to the reputed gold placers on the coast of Choco, in the southern part of the kingdom of New Grenada , about 150 miles south of Panama.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIV, May 1852, Vol. IV by Various

Blue, pink and purest white, with tulips and all the various kinds of narcissi grouped about them they transformed the place into a fairy glen.
— from The Riddle of the Purple Emperor by Mary E. Hanshew

The reader is brought into contact with various kinds of natives, good and bad, with the British official of the better class, and with the grit and solidity and daring of the ordinary Britisher who finds himself in a tight corner and fights with his back against the wall.
— from A Book of the Cevennes by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

I know of no good argument in support of the former of these two opinions; nor has it probably been ever maintained.
— from Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart