Nils Gilderhus and, I believe, Nils Bolstad, soon after walked to Milwaukee and filed their claims at the government land office, Nils Gilderhus being the first in the party to purchase land.
— 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 Usenet list of news groups and mailing lists is available on hosts that run Usenet News or NetNews servers and/or clients in the newsgroups news.announce.newusers and news.lists.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

The law could not restore life to my dead carcass: the loss was irreparable; which to prevent, the law of nature gave me a right to destroy him, who had put himself into a state of war with me, and threatened my destruction.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

But the most inquisitive into the secrets of nature could never yet arrive at the knowledge of the wonderful fabric wherewith the halcyon builds her nest for her little ones, nor guess at the materials.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Kulhwch and Olwen , the chief literary treasure-house of ancient magical and mystical Otherworld and fairy traditions of the Brythons, which we have already considered in relation to Arthur, ‘appears to be built upon Arthurian and other legends of native growth.’
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

The Third Law Of Nature, Justice Justice And Injustice What Justice Not Contrary To Reason Covenants Not Discharged By The Vice Of The Person To Whom Made Justice Of Men, And Justice Of Actions What Justice Of Manners, And Justice Of Actions Nothing Done To A Man, By His Own Consent Can Be Injury Justice Commutative, And Distributive The Fourth Law Of Nature, Gratitude The Fifth, Mutuall accommodation, or Compleasance The Sixth, Facility To Pardon The Seventh, That In Revenges, Men Respect Onely The Future Good The Eighth, Against Contumely The Ninth, Against Pride
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

I believe the pattern is a small lozenge in purple, between lines of narrow gold, and it is to have the crest.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

And was I in danger of forgetting this man?—his cheerful suppers—the noble tone of hospitality, when first you set your foot in the cottage —the anxious ministerings about you, where little or nothing (God knows) was to be ministered.—Althea's horn in a poor platter—the power of self-enchantment, by which, in his magnificent wishes to entertain you, he multiplied his means to bounties.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Let one legion of National Guards go out in arms, and the Elysée was lost.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Whereas the said Lord Lynborough and his predecessors in title have been ever entitled as of right to pass and repass along the path called Beach Path leading across the lands of Nab Grange from the road bounding the same on the west to the seashore on the east thereof, and to use the said path by themselves, their agents and servants, at their pleasure, without let or interference from any person or persons whatsoever——’ ” Stillford paused and looked at the Marchesa.
— from Tales of two people by Anthony Hope

" On his way northward, to his old home in Bor-dentown, Paine passed many a remembered spot, but found little or no greeting on his journey.
— from The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 2. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway

Beggar?—the only freeman of your commonwealth; Free above Scot-free, that observe no laws, Obey no governor, use no religion But what they draw from their own ancient custom, Or constitute themselves, yet they are no rebels.
— from The Antiquary — Complete by Walter Scott

Each regiment was made up of about a thousand bowmen, and to each was temporarily attached a company of Mezop musketeers and a battery of artillery—the latter, our naval guns, mounted upon the broad backs of the mighty lidi.
— from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The camels used in the caravans bringing supplies from India found little or no grazing between marches, and died in their dozens on the way, the consequence being that but little of the supplies despatched from India ever reached us.
— from Raiders of the Sarhad Being an Account of the Campaign of Arms and Bluff Against the Brigands of the Persian-Baluchi Border during the Great War by R. E. H. (Reginald Edward Harry) Dyer

At the same time it appears that part at least of Northern Gujarát was ruled by the Mahásámanta Dharasena of Valabhi, who in Val.
— from History of Gujarát Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume I, Part I. by James M. Campbell