It has also been said that Lars Skavlem’s house was the first to be erected, and J. W. C. Dietrichson erroneously even names him as the first Norwegian in Rock Prairie.
— 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

We may observe, that no person is ever praised by another for any quality, which would not, if real, produce, of itself, a pride in the person possest of it.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

"There is none," I replied pleasantly.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Mr. William Wade and Mr. E. E. Allen, Principal of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, get for me many of the books I need in raised print.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Nicholas immediately recognized Princess Mary not so much by the profile he saw under her bonnet as by the feeling of solicitude, timidity, and pity that immediately overcame him.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Gan bwyll, gently Pwyllad, n. impulse; reason Pwyllig, a. rational: discreet Pwyllineb, n. rationality Pwyllo, v. to impel; to reason; to consider Pwyllog, a. having impulse, rational, considerate Pwyllus, a. impulsive; rational Pwyniad, n. a spike, a skewer Pwynt, n. a point; plight Pwyntel, n. a pencil; a brush Pwyntiad, n. a pointing; a putting in good plight Pwyntio, v. to point; to perfect, to fatten Pwyntl, n. a pointed end Pwys, n. state of rest; a weight; a pound weight Pwysel, n. a bushel Pwysfawr, a. weighty, n. momentous Pwysi, n. weight, heaviness Pwysiad, a pressing; a weighing Pwysig, a. pressing; weighty Pwyso, v. to press, to weigh Pwyth, n. a point; stitch; gift: at a bidding.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

When we reached Columbia, South Carolina, in February, 1865, just as we were leaving the town, in passing near the asylum, I heard my name called, and saw a very dirty fellow followed by a file of men running toward me, and as they got near I recognized Pike.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Whether, as the lady had at first persuaded her physicians to believe her ill, they had now, in return, persuaded her to believe herself so, I will not determine; but she continued a whole month with all the decorations of sickness.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

She called it Goldie and the name seemed appropriate enough to the little frolicsome creature which, during its kittenhood, gave no indication of the sinister nature it really possessed.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

GDP-composition by sector: agriculture: 30% industry: 36% services: 34% Inflation rate-consumer price index: NA% Labor force: by occupation: agriculture 70% Unemployment rate: NA% Budget: revenues: $NA expenditures: $NA Industries: rubber processing, food processing, construction materials, furniture, palm oil processing, iron ore, diamonds Industrial production growth rate: NA% Electricity-capacity: 332,000 kW (1995) Electricity-production: 472 million kWh (1995) Electricity-consumption per capita: 154 kWh (1995) Agriculture-products: rubber, coffee, cocoa, rice, cassava (tapioca), palm oil, sugarcane, bananas; sheep, goats; timber Exports: total value: $667 million (f.o.b., 1995 est.) commodities: diamonds, iron ore, rubber, timber, coffee partners: US, EU, Netherlands, Singapore Imports: total value: $5.8 billion (f.o.b., 1995 est.) commodities: mineral fuels, chemicals, machinery, transportation equipment, manufactured goods; rice and other foodstuffs partners:
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Que fuerat uobis ars prima nota latini Est eadem nobis ipsa reperta patres.
— from An Essay on Colophons, with Specimens and Translations by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard

ad Sixt. , 194, c. 3, n. 9: “ Sed nec ipsa remissio peccatorum sine aliquo merito est, si fides hanc impetret.
— from Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle

The cities on its coast were founded by Phoenician and Grecian colonies, but the native inhabitants retained possession of the interior; one tribe, named the Sic'uli, are said to have migrated from Italy, and to have given their name to the island.
— from Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. By Wm. C. Taylor. by Oliver Goldsmith

A roar of admiration and horror mingled together was heard; then suddenly, like a lightning flash, another form had run up the ladder, and though it was not in right position Jim stretched out both arms and supported her, in what was an untenable position—because—Toney's sleeve had caught fire.
— from Harum Scarum's Fortune by Esmè Stuart

There, on Mount Ida, with a castellated rock in the distance, the charger of Paris browses beneath some stunted larches; the Trojan knight's helmet, with its monstrous beak and plume, lies on the ground; and near it reclines Paris himself, lazy, in complete armour, with frizzled fashionable beard.
— from Euphorion - Vol. I Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance by Vernon Lee

In my youth I led a solitary life, though I never, I remember, posed as a Byronic hero; but first, circumstances, and secondly, a faculty of imaginative dreaming and a love for dreaming, rather cool blood, pride, indolence—a number of different causes, in fact, cut me off from the society of men.
— from The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Presently the royal Duke returned, reopened the door, and said, "Mr. Northcote, it rains; pray lend me an umbrella."
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 530, January 21, 1832 by Various