The Norwegian readily enters into the spirit of American laws and institutions, for their laws are not essentially different from his own.
— 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 a volume, Iz Derevni: 12 Pisem ("From the Country: 12 Letters"), A. N. Engelgardt describes the way in which the Slavic peasants reach their decisions in the village council.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

It stood on Union Street, in the heart of the town's business center, for 135 years, from 1697 to 1832, and figured in practically all the important local and national events during its long career.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Como q e lle quatro yſolle erão maluco ꝓ ilque rengratiaſſemo ydio et ꝓ allegreza deſcaricaſſemo tuta La artigliaria non era de marauiliarſi ſe eramo tanto alegri perche haueuão paſſati vintiſette meſi mancho dui giorni in cercare malucho ꝓ tute qʒſte yſolle
— 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

I jes tol' yer muther, I ses, 'Mary,' ses I, 'Alfurd ain't fit fer nuthin' only minstrel showin', he's gittin' more un more like a nigger every day.'"
— from Watch Yourself Go By by Al. G. (Alfred Griffith) Field

These miners are a tough lot, and not easily done for, as you'll find out before you have seen as much of them as I have.
— from The Copper Princess: A Story of Lake Superior Mines by Kirk Munroe

They found there an hereditary division of castes, such as still subsists; although they reckoned not four, but seven castes, a circumstance, however, [127] which, as we shall see later, argues no essential difference in the division of Indian classes at that period.
— from The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Friedrich von Schlegel

Her heart stood still while she listened; and now every doubt was silenced: It was Orion, and none other, whom she heard speaking in the room above.
— from The Bride of the Nile — Volume 11 by Georg Ebers