Some who had friends there did go to La Salle County, a few remained in Chicago, especially single men, but the majority went with Ansten to Clinton.
— 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
ANT: Conformity, regularity, illustration, conformance, exemplification, specimen.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
Niebuhr considers this reading to be corrupt, and is satisfied that the correct reading is coacto extemplo senatu .
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy
“What is the matter, madam?” “The riddle is clear enough, sir; these sheets are spoiled.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Samuel E. Sewall, Oakes Ames, Massachusetts; William Sprague, T. W. Higginson, Rhode Island; Calvin E. Stowe, Connecticut .
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper
XV IN JOHN BAXTER'S ROOM If Josiah expected any relaxation in Captain Eri's stern discipline he was disappointed, for he was held to the strict letter of the “shipping articles.”
— from Cap'n Eri by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
The most conspicuous portion of the ruins remaining is called El Sacrificatorio.
— from The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
The Mamelook dynasty was, as is well known, of Circassian origin, and a large proportion of the Egyptian Army was recruited in Circassia even so late as in the XVth century.
— from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by da Vinci Leonardo
And it is reborn into certain environments solely because it has within itself unsatisfied desires for those environments, etc.
— from A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga: The Yoga of Wisdom by William Walker Atkinson
In respect to the other cities of Romagna, I can easily suppose that I am rather in want of materials, than that these have had no artists to boast.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 5 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Lanzi
“You’ll do, I think, Russell; I can easily see that you like one another.”
— from The Disputed V.C.: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny by Frederick P. Gibbon
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