[267] Rev. K. A. Kasberg, of Spring Grove, Minn., writes me that Halvor Kravik in speaking of some of these people says Halvor Aasen went to Rock Run as did also Paal “Spellemand.”
— 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

Then master of all sacred lore, Spake Ráma to the saint once more: “I, even I, illustrious sage, Will make those worlds mine heritage: But now, I pray, some home assign Within this holy grove of thine.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

She was certain that Sir Philip did not love her: she knew that she did not love Sir Philip; and yet—it did seem that she might have a happy, easy, honored life if she consented to marry him—a life that would make her envied by many who had previously scorned her, and which would be, she hoped, productive of good to those whom she deeply loved.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

The king ordered that she should be admitted, and in a moment she stood before him, pale, shrivelled, hagard, and wild, and altogether such a figure as one scarcely can see, or could see, without the impression that she was scarce earthly.
— from The Brownie of Bodsbeck, and Other Tales (Vol. 2 of 2) by James Hogg

The principal sapwallah had a wand in his hand, which he flourished while he repeated a volume of gibberish which none of the party but Sir Modava could understand.
— from Across India; Or, Live Boys in the Far East by Oliver Optic

Almost as close was the identification of the several religious systems of the East with the enjoyments of civilised life which they prized so highly, and which the empire of Rome secured to them.
— from The Formation of Christendom, Volume II by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

'Are you responsible for this gentleman's language?' said I. 'Just as you please,' said he; and with that I struck him full under the jaw, and knocked him back among the shaving-cups and bottles.
— from Kitty's Conquest by Charles King

But it is now largely adopted by the most theistical natural philosophers as a tenable and perhaps sufficient hypothesis, and where not accepted is no longer objected to, so far as we know, on philosophical or religious grounds.
— from Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Asa Gray

The man at whose house she boarded insisted that she should leave, because she prayed, sung hymns, and would keep talking about religion all the time.
— from Five Years in the Alleghanies by Jonathan Cross