In the Town of Primrose, Robert Spears and family were the first comers (1844); a few other Americans had also arrived there before Christian Hendrickson located in the town in 1846.
— 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

—Dost thou, O pedant, require something written too?
— 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.

I shouldn't like to think of poor Regina's spending the rest of her life in some shabby foreign watering-place for bankrupts.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Only the older people remembered so obscure an incident in the business life of New York as Beaufort's failure, or the fact that after his wife's death he had been quietly married to the notorious Fanny Ring, and had left the country with his new wife, and a little girl who inherited her beauty.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

On the contrary, by this methodology is understood the mode in which we can give the laws of pure practical reason access to the human mind and influence on its maxims, that is, by which we can make the objectively practical reason subjectively practical also.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

[A; b(1)] tie or put reenforcing string.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

(3) Because from one of the islands through which the northern line of the Treaty of Paris runs, situated only a pleasant morning’s journey in a launch due north of Aparri, the northernmost town of Luzon, you can see, on a clear day, with a good field-glass, the southern end of Formosa, some 60 or 70 miles away.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

On the same principle, it is only a question of tradition or policy whether a cessation of the power to reproduce the original physical relations shall affect the continuance of the rights.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Instead, therefore, of wondering why a philosopher for once in a way writes on this subject, which has been constantly the theme of poets, rather should one be surprised that love, which always plays such an important rôle in a man's life, has scarcely ever been considered at all by philosophers, and that it still stands as material for them to make use of.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

Long arrived in Denver with his beautiful wife and a $10,000 bank roll one bright spring day at the opening of the Overland Park racing season.
— from Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various

The General sat some time as if in silent meditation, and the officers present remained silent, unwilling to disturb his reflections.
— from John Stevens' Courtship: A Story of the Echo Canyon War by Susa Young Gates

According to the old parish register, still preserved, "The very high and puissant gentleman, Monseigneur Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert Dumotier de Lafayette, the lawful son of the very high and very puissant Monseigneur Michel-Louis-Christophe-Roch-Gilbert Dumotier, Marquis de Lafayette, Baron de Wissac, Seigneur de Saint-Romain and other places, and of the very high and very puissant lady, Madame Marie Louise Julie de la Rivière," was baptized in the little parish church of Chavaniac twenty-four hours after his birth.
— from The Boys' Life of Lafayette by Helen Nicolay

What hope then was there of Plautia remaining secret?
— from Neæra: A Tale of Ancient Rome by Graham, John W. (John William), active 1886-1887

Freeze, using three parts finely crushed ice to one part rock salt.
— from Kellogg's Great Crops of Strawberries, and How to Grow Them the Kellogg Way by R. M. Kellogg Co.

And in the lean years, which are the seventh years—the years of the rabbit plague—starvation stalks in the teepees, and gaunt, sunken-eyed forms, dry-lipped, and with the skin drawn tightly over protruding ribs, stiffen between shoddy blankets.
— from The Gun-Brand by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

In both cases suffering has a moral course, but with this difference, that on the one part Regulus shows us its moral character, and that, on the other, he only shows us that he was made to have such a character.
— from Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller