[367] They left five sons: Erik, Ellik, Peter, who live on Spring Prairie, Marcus (Deerfield), and John, who lives in Cottage Grove, and one daughter, Mrs. Peter Hagen, Spring Prairie.
— 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

This Vendome tavern-keeper pretended also to have lodged some princesses, M. Decazes, General Bertrand, the King of Spain, and the Duc and Duchesse of d'Abrantes.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Non intelligunt homines quam magnum vectigal sit parsimonia —Men do not understand what a great revenue economy is. Cic.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

while government expenses for broken chariots, worn-out horses, breast-plates and helmets, bows and arrows, spears and shields, protective mantles, draught-oxen and heavy wagons, will amount to four-tenths of its total revenue. 15.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

That, finding nothing would do, they at last resolved to complain to his father and mother; but that he made his sister acquainted with the matter, who then happened to be at home; and, by her management and spirit, their intentions of that sort were frustrated; and, seeing no hopes, they agreed to Lady Davers's proposals, and sent poor miss down to Marlborough, where, at her expense, which he answered to her again, she was provided for, and privately lay-in: That Lady Davers took upon herself the care of the little one, till it came to be fit to be put to the boarding-school, where it now is: And that he had settled upon the dear little miss such a sum of money, as the interest of it would handsomely provide for her: and the principal would be a tolerable fortune, fit for a gentlewoman, when she came to be marriageable.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

“But consider, brother,” said the curate once more, “there never was any Felixmarte of Hircania in the world, nor any Cirongilio of Thrace, or any of the other knights of the same sort, that the books of chivalry talk of; the whole thing is the fabrication and invention of idle wits, devised by them for the purpose you describe of beguiling the time, as your reapers do when they read; for I swear to you in all seriousness there never were any such knights in the world, and no such exploits or nonsense ever happened anywhere.” “Try that bone on another dog,” said the landlord; “as if I did not know how many make five, and where my shoe pinches me; don’t think to feed me with pap, for by God I am no fool.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And indeed everybody in the room looked with a smile of pleasure at the jovial old gentleman, who standing beside his tall and stout partner, Márya Dmítrievna, curved his arms, beat time, straightened his shoulders, turned out his toes, tapped gently with his foot, and, by a smile that broadened his round face more and more, prepared the onlookers for what was to follow.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Buddhas quidem mille fere annis ante Christum natun vixit: sed post multa demumsecula, odiointernecivo inter Brachmanos et
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

You told me he was the same para mí destinado one, destined only for me por mi padre..., y me has jurado by my father, and swore to me en su nombre que me amaba.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

The silent abbe left his niece to throw the dice of conversation; and she truly felt that she pleased Monsieur de Troisville, who smiled at her gracefully, and committed himself during this dinner far more than her most eager suitors had ever done in ten days.
— from An Old Maid by Honoré de Balzac

The maid who opened the door that afternoon to the weary, happy, home-coming party of Christmas shoppers said, "Please, Miss Drayton, there's a lady and two little boys in the back parlor to see Miss Anne.
— from Honey-Sweet by Edna Henry Lee Turpin

I see now," he said laughing, "why my father is always praising black hair; and—nay, nay—gentlemen may admire ladies in Paris, surely?" "Pooh, my dear child, your father is an old friend of my poor husband, and a near relation too!
— from Lucretia — Volume 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

It was then that she pulled me down by the feet to earth.
— from Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth Von Arnim

She passed many docks, where not so many steamers lay at anchor as she had once noticed.
— from The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races by Oscar Micheaux

I have been amused by the way in which some people meet disappointment.
— from The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

'I forget what it was you wished to speak about with me so particularly, my dear Aristius,' said the poet, in despair.
— from Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

All things around me show that days, and weeks, And months have fled, although to me not mark'd By Sabbaths, and but faintly marked by dim And sombre rays of light, alternate 'mid The gloom of overhanging night, which still Pervades my drear and solitary cell.
— from The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Embracing His Life, Ministry, and Travels by Parley P. (Parley Parker) Pratt