The Settlement of Norway and Raymond Townships, Racine County.
— 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

I was, no matter whether deservedly so or not, a representative of that side of the controversy.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

c. 22) from the Arabs; and in spite of national and religious pride, I am afraid the latter is in the right.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Out of any score of names and reputations that should reach beyond the century, the thirty-years-old who were starting in the year 1867 could show none that was so far in advance as to warrant odds in its favor.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

On it are piles of plates, stacks of napkins and rows of spoons and forks at intervals, making four or possibly six piles altogether.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

By this means I shall take care, that my metropolis totter'd not thro' its own weight;—that the head be no longer too big for the body;—that the extremes, now wasted and pinn'd in, be restored to their due share of nourishment, and regain with it their natural strength and beauty:—I would effectually provide, That the meadows and corn fields of my dominions, should laugh and sing;—that good chear and hospitality flourish once more;—and that such weight and influence be put thereby into the hands of the Squirality of my kingdom, as should counterpoise what I perceive my Nobility are now taking from them.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

With this mobility, when it occurs within a limited group, there occurs that synthesis of nearness and remoteness which constitutes the formal position of the stranger; for the merely mobile comes incidentally into contact with every [Pg 324] single element but is not bound up organically, through the established ties of kinship, locality, or profession, with any single one.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

"Over suspicious or not," answered Randal, "the amount of the sum is too improbable, and the security too bad, for me to listen to this proposition, even if I could descend to—" "Stop, mon cher .
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 438, April 1852 by Various

The word Nemĕsis is of Greek origin, nor was there any Latin word that expressed it, therefore the Latin poets usually styled this goddess Rhamnusia, from a famous statue of Nemĕsis at Rhamnus in Attica.
— from Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) by Charles K. (Charles Knapp) Dillaway

The treaty was signed in May 1670, but as Charles was more anxious about the subsidies than about the change of religion, and as Louis XIV. preferred that the religious question should not be raised till the war against Holland had been completed, very little, if anything, was done, except to publish a Declaration of Indulgence (1672) in which Charles by virtue of his "supreme power in ecclesiastical matters" suspended "all manner of penal laws against whatsoever sort of Nonconformists and Recusants."
— from History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 2 by James MacCaffrey

It was in one of those half-frantic scenes of noise and revel, call it not gayety, which establish a heathen saturnalia in the midst of a Christian festival.
— from Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

To my fancy that savors strongly of nihilism, as regards creeds."
— from Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

He often described himself as being destitute of personal courage when at school, as shrinking from the amusements of schoolfellows, and fearful of their quarrels; not wholly without generous impulses, but, in the main, selfish of nature and reclusive in habit of life.
— from Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Caine, Hall, Sir

Row out a little way, and then sail in any direction in which you can make the boat go, straight back to shore if you can, with the sail out nearly at right angles with the boat.
— from Boat-Building and Boating by Daniel Carter Beard

Later, as the sun rose higher, and his shipmates awoke, the excited screams of Nikobo and Roger and the eager voices of Samuel and Ato told him that they too had seen the bright land beyond the cliffs.
— from Captain Salt in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson

6 ) - Spore ornament not a reticulum.
— from Keys to Fungi on Dung by M. J. (Michael J.) Richardson