[374] From Sogn came Ole A. Grinde and Ole Menes, the latter remaining, however, two years in Norway Grove before coming to Blue Mounds.
— 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
‘Thank you, I never go to parties.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
On this Philus said: I have no doubt, my Scipio, that no one is superior to you in natural genius, 378 and that you are very far superior to every one in the practical experience of national government and of important business.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero
The year is not given, and is not certainly known.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint
'You never go behind I think sir, or—?' 'No thank you, I never go behind.'
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster
But actually, till yesterday, I never got a chance.
— from Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
For the year is never gone by; in a moment we can recall the sunshine we enjoyed in May, the roses we gathered in June, the first wheatear we plucked as the green corn filled.
— from Nature Near London by Richard Jefferies
"Ten years is no great matter after all, and from the point of view of brains, I'm an infant beside you.
— from The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts
I am willing to make all the amends I am able for the accidental damage to your property, but I can't and won't cringe to your injustice, nor grovel at your feet."
— from Bart Stirling's Road to Success; Or, The Young Express Agent by Allen Chapman
“I hope the youngster is not going to develop anything serious!”
— from The Lady of the Basement Flat by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
Stimulation, recreation, information to come to you in National geographic magazine, Beyond Australia's cities; Sporting dogs and game birds … (MS-8-36) © 1Aug36; AA212542.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1964 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Even the suggested emendation of the text reducing the estimate by a thousand years is not generally acceptable.
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane
The Yak is not generally fierce, but, if intruded upon by strangers, it sometimes manifests very formidable symptoms of impatience, stamping its feet, whisking its tail aloft, and tossing its head.
— from Delineations of the Ox Tribe: The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. by George Vasey
The season of the year is not given.
— from Magic and Religion by Andrew Lang
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