It soon became widely distributed and continued for over a decade to exert a powerful influence upon Norwegian emigration from Voss, east to Hedemarken, and north to Gudbrandsdalen, in these latter provinces, at the close of the decade, especially.
— 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

as I had used no exercise for several weeks, I determined to walk on shore as far as our encampment of this evening; accordingly I continued my walk on the N. side of the River about six miles, to the upper Village of the Mandans, and called on the Black Cat or Pose cop'se ha, the great chief of the Mandans; he was not at home; I rested myself a minutes, and finding that the party had not arrived I returned about 2 miles and joined them at their encampment on the N. side of the river opposite the lower Mandan village.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Note 77 ( return ) [ Papa Hilarius... apud beatum Petrum Apostolum, palam ne id fieret, clara voce constrinxit, in tantum ut non ea facienda cum interpositione juramenti idem promitteret Imperator.
— 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

It is much used now, especially for the seasoning of wood.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

cūð known, plain, manifest, certain , Da, Ps, Rd ; Æ, AO, CP: well known, usual : noted, excellent, famous , Ex : intimate, familiar, friendly, related .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Hetty made haste to run away upstairs, not easily finding an answer to her aunt's question, and Mrs. Poyser went out to see after Marty and Tommy and bring them in to supper.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

No criminal shall go unpunished, not even for a single offence, nor if he have fled the country; but let the penalty be according to his deserts—death, or bonds, or blows, or degrading places of sitting or standing, or removal to some temple on the borders of the land; or let him pay fines, as we said before.
— from Laws by Plato

Arbeit erworben unearned income nicht durchführbar not feasible nicht eingelöster Wechsel dishonoured note nicht eingeschränktes Dokument unqualified document nicht eingetragen unrecorded nicht einlösbar irredeemable nicht eintrifft shall have failed to arrive nicht einwandfreie Ware; fehlerhafte Ware faulty goods nicht entnommener Gewinn undrawn profit nicht erhältlich unavailable nicht erledigt unsettled nicht erscheinen; fernbleiben to fail to appear nicht erwünschter Helfer unwanted helper nicht erzwingbar unenforceable nicht etabliert non-established nicht fachmännisch unprofessional nicht feststellbar unascertainable nicht flüssig illiquid nicht formgerecht bad in form nicht gedecktes Kapital impaired capital nicht geltend gemacht unclaimed nicht gewinnbringend unprofitable nicht giriert unendorsed nicht greifbare
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Use no entreaty, for it is in vain.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

So yesterday, when the German guns were getting back behind the Passchendaele, hauled back out of the mud to take up new emplacements from which they can pour explosives on the ground we have captured, our gunners could not rest, but made this work hideous for the enemy and followed his guns along their tracks.
— from From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Philip Gibbs

The village street behind her was silent now, even the footsteps of belated folk hurrying to their homes sent up no echo from the soft, sandy ground.
— from A Bride of the Plains by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

"Let us now examine for a moment the amazing fact that none of the stigmata of death was found in those who perished here.
— from The Grey Room by Eden Phillpotts

There is no apparatus for elaborating a concentrated and purified nutriment, and distributing it among the component units; but these component units directly imbibe the unprepared nutriment, either from the digestive cavity or from each other.
— from Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions by Herbert Spencer

Their ideas are served up to them, like their bill of fare, for the day; and the whole creation, history, war, politics, morals, poetry, metaphysics, is to them like a file of antedated newspapers, of no use, not even for reference, except the one which lies on the table!
— from Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt

No! Court policy Has raised up new enjoyments for mankind.
— from Don Carlos: A Play by Friedrich Schiller