These went fourteen miles farther west and established a settlement in the Township of Newark, which had not been settled by white men before, while a few of the members of this latter party went south from there eighteen miles, crossing the Illinois line, and located in the Township of Rock Run, in Stephenson County, Illinois.
— 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

In 1849 he married Anna Hatlestad (born in Skjold Parish, Ryfylke, in 1830), whose parents Jens O. Hatlestad and wife Anne had immigrated in 1846, and settled in the Town of Norway.
— 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

But what now shall stem that tide of Prussians setting in through the open North-East?'
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Miss Ophelia was old, and skilled in the tactics of nursing.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

It follows hence that the sublime is not to be sought in the things of nature, but only in our Ideas; but in which of them it lies must be reserved for the Deduction.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

he took his seat in the town of Nidaros, and collected the needful winter provision (A.D. 1016).
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Shall I tell them or not?
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

She is quite as much a mother to her mother, as she is to the other nine.’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

According to Mr. Borlase, ‘it was by passing under the waters of a well that the Sidh , that is, the abode of the spirits called Sidhe , in the tumulus or natural hill, as the case might be, was reached.’
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

She is typical the oldtime Negro with head rag tightly covering her hair, carrying a slick old walking-stick whose bark is worn in places because of constant use, and little old straightcut full apron.
— from Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

If I were to send out my bills in metre to my customers, there would be a rise of temperature soon in the town of Nairn.
— from Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes

And whereas the public lands in the Territory of New Mexico, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation; Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid acts of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that the boundary lines of the Forest Reservation in the Territory of New Mexico, known as "The Pecos River Forest Reserve," created by proclamation of January eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, are hereby so changed and enlarged as to include all those certain tracts, pieces, or parcels of land lying and being situate in the Territory of New Mexico, and within the boundaries particularly described as follows, to wit: Beginning at the southwest corner of Township seventeen (17) North, Range thirteen (13) East, New Mexico Principal Meridian, New Mexico; thence easterly along the Fourth (4th) Standard Parallel North, to its intersection with the west boundary line of the Las Vegas Grant; thence northerly along the west boundary lines of the Las Vegas and Mora Grants to the point of intersection with the southeast boundary line of the Rancho del Rio Grande Grant; thence along the boundary line of said grant in a southwesterly direction to the most southerly point thereof; thence southerly to the line of the Santa Barbary Grant; thence southeasterly and southerly to the southeast corner thereof; thence westerly along the south boundary line of said grant to the southwest corner thereof, and continuing westerly to the east boundary line of the Las Trampas Grant; thence in a general southwesterly direction following the boundary lines of the Las Trampas, Las Truchas, and San Fernando Santiago Grants to the point of intersection with the unsurveyed range line between Ranges ten (10) and eleven (11) East; thence southerly along the range line to the point for the southwest corner of Section eighteen (18), Fractional Township sixteen (16) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence easterly along the unsurveyed section line to the point for the southeast corner of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence northerly along the range line to the northeast corner of Township seventeen (17) North, Range eleven (11) East; thence easterly along the township line to the southeast corner of Township eighteen (18) North, Range twelve (12) East; thence southerly along the range line to the southwest corner of Township seventeen (17) North, Range thirteen (13) East, the place of beginning.
— from A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents by William McKinley

But, instead of its being to me evidence of feeling, it evinces, in every degree of it, want of feeling; and whenever a man rises in his religious feelings sufficiently high, he will break away from the shackles of his perverse habit, and speak in the tone of nature.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

And Clotilda and Victor stood innocent before God, and God said, Weep and love as in the second world with me!–And they looked on each other speechless in the transfiguration of night, in the transfiguration of love, in the transfiguration of emotion, and tears of bliss closed their eyes, and behind the illuminated tears transfigured worlds rose around them out of the dark earth, and the evening-fountain spread itself gleaming like a milky-way above them, and the starry heaven closed sparkling over them, and the receding and dying sounds washed their uplifted souls away from the shore of earth....
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. II. by Jean Paul

'Heave-to, or I'll sink you,' I said in the true old nautical style.
— from Geoffrey Hampstead: A Novel by Stinson Jarvis

He was often called “the Na-tick Cobbler,” because he was once a shoemaker in the town of Natick.’
— from Our Home and Personal Duty by Jane Eayre Fryer

What I have said in the text ought not to be understood as implying any doubt that men are largely responsible for their beliefs.
— from Theism; being the Baird Lecture of 1876 by Robert Flint

It is of East Indian origin, and once figured with another similar stone in the throne of Nadir Shah.
— from The Subterranean World by G. (Georg) Hartwig