In chapter XXI above I have further related some incidents from the life of some early Norwegian settlers in Chicago.
— 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

My uncle subsequently exercised no small influence on my development; we shall meet him again at a critical turning-point in the story of my youth.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

The form of christening was perhaps even more ludicrous than the satirist had conceived; but strangely enough, nobody saw it and nobody laughed.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

<siete, e non so io perche', nel mondo gramo>>, diss'elli a noi, <— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

quamquam , etsī , tametsī , though , and nisi , but , are sometimes used to coordinate a new period, correcting the preceding: as, carēre sentientis est, nec sēnsus in mortuō, nē carēre quidem igitur in mortuō est.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

" At this Jove was much troubled and answered, "I shall have trouble if you set me quarrelling with Juno, for she will provoke me with her taunting speeches; even now she is always railing at me before the other gods and accusing me of giving aid to the Trojans.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Whatever may be our condition, we shall either need some imaginary ghost or some actual medicine-man to terrorize over us.
— from The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore

{113} Another point bearing on this, of very great importance: In children, the most frequent subjects of such disease, excision of the lower limb may, by removing the epiphyses, cause to a very considerable degree disparity in their length, thus rendering them nearly useless, while in the upper such disparity is neither so extensive nor so injurious to the usefulness of the limb, which is not required for purposes of progression.
— from A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell

This we should expect naturally, since in the race as in the child the pleasure in bright baubles must long precede the pleasure in beautiful faces or figures.
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

There were no independent, separate entities, no sacred, inviolable selves.
— from Mary Olivier: a Life by May Sinclair

Art.: “The Revival of Pure Shinto,” by Sir E. N. Satow, in Trans.
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

But young people have neither such experience nor such information, and they are not always wise enough to understand the imperative dictates of self-restraint.
— from Moral Principles and Medical Practice: The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence by Charles Coppens

Bellarmine, De Verbo Dei scripto et non scripto , IV, ix, 10.
— from Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge