Several of these men later moved away, as Paul Thompson, Michael Erickson, Rasmus Scheldal, and Ole Tvistal, who went to Story County, Iowa, while some members of the Rygh and Wing families went to Goodhue County, Minnesota, 1856.
— 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

Marrow bones and cleavers; principal instruments in the band of rough music: these are generally performed on by butchers, on marriages, elections, riding skimmington, and other public or joyous occasions.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

In such science only the ultimate material elements remain surds; all their further movement and complication can be represented in that kind of thought which is most intimately satisfactory and perspicuous.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

'A few years hence, my Emily,' replied St. Aubert, 'and you may smile at the recollection of that question—if you do not weep to it.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

'Ah, my Emily!' replied St. Aubert, 'for thy sake!
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

How very different, too, might have been the development of many things, if by the chances of an unlucky destiny the decline of Norwegian navigation had not come just at a time when maritime enterprise received such a powerful impetus among more southern nations, especially the Portuguese, then the Spaniards, later the French, the English and the Dutch.
— from In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (Volume 2 of 2) by Fridtjof Nansen

The devices by which some of these ideas were sought to be realised in past ages appear to us in some instances very primitive, not to say childish, when compared with modern work: but it must be remembered that nearly all the appliances required for producing such weapons had themselves to wait for their invention until the nineteenth century; such, for instance, as the steam-hammer, powerful and accurate tools, refined measuring implements, material entirely reliable such as the new steel, and also scientific investigations of all the conditions involved.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

How does a man ever retrieve such a false step?
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

But the dour old Cameronian's spirit refused to let him do aught that might even remotely suggest a doubt as to his being absolutely in the right.
— from Stories of the Border Marches by Jean Lang

A clergyman's wife in England has lately set on foot a reform movement in respect to dress; and, like many English reformers, she aims chiefly to elevate the morals and manners of the lower classes, without much reference to her own social equals.
— from Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

I believe both Love you; but one can pun, and talk nonsense w th M rs Blount most Elegantly remember Saturday and never forget me, that is, do not be ungratefull.
— from Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of