Those who hired out to others received very small wages, and as there was little money among the pioneer farmers this was paid in large part in food or other articles.
— 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

Our apparent tranquility of mind, as to our religious views, is a matter of surprise to him.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

It rose so straight that we had to put our heads over to see the base, and the country below seemed to be a far-off marshy tangle of rank vegetation.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

At first he seems to continue xii the discussion with reluctance, but soon with apparent good-will, and he even testifies his interest at a later stage by one or two occasional remarks (v. 450 A , B ).
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

we proceeded on to the old Ricara village the S E wind was so hard and the waves So high that we were obliged to Come too, & Camp on the S W Side near the old Village.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The only things of real value are honest personal contacts, contacts with higher officials, albeit higher officials of the lower grades, you understand.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

He talked of Rome very pleasantly; he was evidently quite well read, and he quoted Horace about Soracte.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

“Enough!” said Heyward, apprehensive the unconscious sisters might comprehend the nature of the detention, and conquering his disgust by a train of reflections very much like that of the hunter; “'tis done; and though better it were left undone, cannot be amended.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

“The last time our relative visited this fair he said he was living at Casterbridge.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Mayor Trout, of Roanoke, Virginia, called out the militia in 1893, to protect a Negro prisoner, and in so doing nine men were killed and a number wounded.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

This curious coincidence made a great impression on the [Pg 99] Indians, which is not yet effaced; and they still point out a small lake or pond that is said to cover the once rich vein or "Veta de la Candelaria."
— from Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India. by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

Between 1631, the year of Finch's death, and 1635, when Gardiner was elected Recorder, there had been three other Recorders, viz., Edward Littleton, Robert Mason and Henry Calthorp, not one of whom sat in parliament for the city.
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 2 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

Each ‘cared for his own things, and none for those of others;’ and gradually, during the early Middle Age, the fen—save those old Roman villages—returned to its primæval jungle, under the neglect of a race which caricatured local self-government into public anarchy, and looked on every stranger as an alien enemy, who might be lawfully slain, if he came through the forest without calling aloud or blowing a horn.
— from Prose Idylls, New and Old by Charles Kingsley

Truly a 'Splendor of God' did dwell in those old rude veracious ages.
— from Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle

The whole island, one hundred and forty-six miles long and sixty-three wide, was converted into a theatre of rapine, violation, and bloodshed.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09: European Statesmen by John Lord

Because of this only relative value of the spoken word, there are many producers [theoretical and practical] who believe that the spoken word should be eliminated entirely from this special art of the theatre.
— from Caliban by the Yellow Sands: A Community Masque of the Art of the Theatre by Percy MacKaye

—God will lead them on (Revised Version) and bring them forth to do this deed, them and all their multitude, equipped with every conceivable weapon of destruction.
— from Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished Mystery by C. T. (Charles Taze) Russell

That is indeed the only real vitalization of character, and of all the supersensual, even heroic and artistic portions of man or nationality.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Set out early, Saw great numbers of Grouse feeding on the young willows, on the Sand bars one mans I sent in persute of a gangue of Elk killed three near the old Ricara Village and joined at the fort, Sent him back to Secure the meat one man with him—The ice on the parts of the River which was verry rough, as I went down, was Smothe on my return, this is owing to the rise and fall of the water, which takes place every day or two, and Caused by partial thaws, and obstructions in the passage of the water thro the Ice, which frequently attaches itself to the bottom.—the water when riseing forses its way thro the cracks & air holes above the old ice, & in one night becoms a Smothe Surface of ice 4 to 6 Inchs thick,—the river falls & the ice Sink in places with the water and attaches itself to the bottom, and when it again rises to its former hite, frequently leavs a valley of Several feet to Supply with water to bring it on a leavel Surfice.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

7, in contrast with that of Rom. viii.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Ephesians by George G. (George Gillanders) Findlay