This very ship brought a number who located at Pine Lake, among them Halvor Salveson from Gjerpen.
— 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

A secretary made report that forasmuch as the late King had provided in his will for conferring the ducal degree upon the Earl of Hertford and raising his brother, Sir Thomas Seymour, to the peerage, and likewise Hertford’s son to an earldom, together with similar aggrandisements to other great servants of the Crown, the Council had resolved to hold a sitting on the 16th of February for the delivering and confirming of these honours, and that meantime, the late King not having granted, in writing, estates suitable to the support of these dignities, the Council, knowing his private wishes in that regard, had thought proper to grant to Seymour ‘500 pound lands,’ and to Hertford’s son ‘800 pound lands, and 300 pound of the next bishop’s lands which should fall vacant,’—his present Majesty being willing.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

White Mason gazed at my friend as the little village practitioner looks at the Harley Street specialist who by a word can solve the difficulties that perplex him.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

I cannot close this foreword without acknowledging my indebtedness to the Pan-American Union for exact data and information; to the New York Public Library and the Hispanic Society of America for the facilities afforded in the copying of excerpts; to Las Novedades for permission to reprint certain text matter; to Dr. Homero Serís for his assistance in collecting Spanish Americanisms; and, last but certainly not least, to the Spanish Department of D. C. Heath & Co., the publishers, for valuable suggestions and assistance in planning the book and in the preparation of the manuscript.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

She had been here for nearly an hour, absorbed in this pleasant, leisurely art that had such a new meaning and delight.
— from His Second Wife by Ernest Poole

Jimmie Dale, busy with his problem, his mind sifting and turning this way and that the curious, and in some cases apparently conflicting details of the Tocsin’s letter, paid little attention to his surroundings, save to note approvingly from time to time that a request to Benson to hurry was equivalent to something perilously near to a contempt of speed laws.
— from The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

He took it up and began to turn over the pages lovingly, as though handling some priceless Book of Hours.
— from Old Calabria by Norman Douglas

He voluntarily called upon President Lincoln and tendered his support to the cause of the Union, and immediately gave out to the Associated Press a statement, calling upon the people of the North, regardless of party, to rally to its defence.
— from Fifty Years of Public Service Personal Recollections of Shelby M. Cullom, Senior United States Senator from Illinois by Shelby M. (Shelby Moore) Cullom

"Yes, now you people laugh at that," he said as he handed the eastern publisher's letter over to Esther.
— from The High Calling by Charles M. Sheldon

It is strange, to say the least, that Moses should not have been allowed to enter the promised land, and that he should be so seldom referred to by later writers until long after the reign of David, 132 and above all that the name given to his successor was Joshua— i.e. , Saviour .
— from Serpent-Worship, and Other Essays, with a Chapter on Totemism by C. Staniland (Charles Staniland) Wake

But the fellow, although somewhat astonished to find that there had been a comrade behind while he thought that he himself was the rearmost man, paid little attention to his supposed comrade, being too much out of breath to do much thinking.
— from Under the Chilian Flag: A Tale of War between Chili and Peru by Harry Collingwood

“What’s Bulow’s force, Marshal?” “Thirty thousand, Sire.” “Let Lobau take ten thousand, with the Cuirassiers of the Young Guard, and hold the Prussians in check.” “Maintenant, pour les autres,” this he said with a smile, as he turned his eyes once more towards the field of battle.
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever

Panting like a tuckered hound she was when the comrades gathered to tell her how wonderful she had been.
— from Ma Pettengill by Harry Leon Wilson