The following year they, however, moved to the Rock Prairie Settlement (see below), and in 1852 they settled in Mitchell County, Iowa.
— 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

For this cause my soul was sickly and full of sores, it miserably cast itself forth, desiring to be scraped by the touch of objects of sense.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

She is much changed, indeed, since last July, when I saw her enact with no little spirit the part of a very killing fine gentleman.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Many of them no doubt did it for the strengthening the resolution of the people, and especially for quickening them to repentance, but it certainly answered not their end, at least not in proportion to the injury it did another way; and indeed, as God Himself through the whole Scriptures rather draws to Him by invitations and calls to turn to Him and live, than drives us by terror and amazement, so I must confess I thought the ministers should have done also, imitating our blessed Lord and Master in this, that His whole Gospel is full of declarations from heaven of God's mercy, and His readiness to receive penitents and forgive them, complaining, 'Ye will not come unto Me that ye may have life', and that therefore His Gospel is called the Gospel of Peace and the Gospel of Grace.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

The demand of a human sacrifice is more clear in the Sockburn story, where Conyers offered up his only son to the Holy Ghost in the parish church before engaging the Dragon, that being a condition of success prescribed by the ‘Oracle’ or ‘Sybil.’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

I must do as other men do, and think what will please the world and bring in money; look for a little opening in the London crowd, and push myself; set up in a watering-place, or go to some southern town where there are plenty of idle English, and get myself puffed,—that is the sort of shell I must creep into and try to keep my soul alive in.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

And as the mind, by putting together the repeated ideas of unity, makes the collective mode, or complex idea, of any number, as a score, or a gross, &c.,—so, by putting together several particular substances, it makes collective ideas of substances, as a troop, an army, a swarm, a city, a fleet; each of which every one finds that he represents to his own mind by one idea, in one view; and so under that notion considers those several things as perfectly one, as one ship, or one atom.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

He says: "I meet casually in the street a person whose appearance I am acquainted with, and say to myself at once that I have seen him before.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Sulla established 120,000 soldiers in military colonies in different parts of Italy, but their roaming adventurous life had unfitted them for agricultural pursuits.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

It is perhaps characteristic that this human feeling should show itself most clearly in reference to an act for which she was not directly responsible, and in regard to which therefore she does not feel the instinct of self-assertion.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

so I must call it—poor boy—but cannot exactly get him to accept a legitimate right over me—I fear he is attached elsewhere—but you know he is young, sir, and.
— from The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

It was consequently a difficult body to deal with, and had to be managed by a system of open bribery which first showed itself most conspicuously in the shape of retaining fees paid to Scottish members.
— from The Mother of Parliaments by Harry Graham

The most important attempt to turn Yorick’s teachings to practical service in modifying conduct in human relationships was the introduction and use of the so-called “Lorenzodosen.”
— from Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer

"He's a slob—his face gives him away—and besides, Mr. Carew the other night—" "I know," she interrupted; "Mr. Carew is sure we're all going to be ruined by your mother and the Universal Transportation Company."
— from Victor Ollnee's Discipline by Hamlin Garland

“One day,” continued she, “I may confide in you: it will perhaps be necessary.”
— from The Lerouge Case by Emile Gaboriau

In October 173,000 were still in Metz, consequently it is certain that the enemy had at disposition in the battle [63] of the 18th of August more than 180,000 men.
— from The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Moltke, Helmuth, Graf von

After staying nearly a week, with not much success in my collections, I proceeded up the west branch of the river, called the Capim.
— from Travels on the Amazon by Alfred Russel Wallace