It has elsewhere in this volume been shown that Wisconsin early became the objective point of im migrants from Norway.
— 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

It was obtained from the patterers and tramps who supplied a great many words for this work, and who were employed by the original publisher in collecting Old Ballads, Christmas Carols, Dying Speeches, and Last Lamentations, as materials for a History of Popular Literature .
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

To outsiders, immigrants, adventurers, it was easy, but the old Puritan nature rebelled against change.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

But in the glorious year 1660 everyone began to throw up his cap and welcome right royally the king from over the water; and the long-faced Puritan disappeared, and the writing in the register-books changed into that of a scholarly hand; and many of our churches were enriched by thankofferings of plate and other gifts, because the good people of England rejoiced exceedingly that their loved Church and her services were restored to them; and “the king at last enjoyed his own again.”
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

These are separate publications from the house of Beadle and Adams, of which Erastus Beadle, the Otsego printer, was the originator and guiding spirit.
— from The Beadle Collection of Dime Novels Given to the New York Public Library By Dr. Frank P. O'Brien by New York Public Library

37 All ordinary transparent and colourless substances owe their transparency to the discord which exists between the oscillating periods of their molecules and those of the waves of the whole visible spectrum.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

Above all, they learn to “Carry on!” doing a woman's work in a woman's way, doing small things that women have always done as well as the new things that have opened to women, either by their own pluck or because men have at least given women a chance, and doing them patiently, self-forgettingly, with the old-fashioned touch of a woman's hand.
— from The Girl Scouts: A Training School for Womanhood by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Women employed by their own parents for wage-earning prostitution.
— from Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Lytton, Constance, Lady

Still there is one remark which essentially belongs to our present subject, and is also closely connected with what has gone before.
— from The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures by Friedrich von Schlegel

The point which Ferrier made the real crux of the whole question of philosophy was the distinction which exists between the ordinary psychological doctrine of perception and the metaphysical.
— from James Frederick Ferrier by Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane

The public treasury will ever be the objective point of such wholesalers until the inducement is removed.
— from Confiscation; An Outline by William Greenwood

Each hole has also an extension tube fitted into it, the whole effect being that of [Pg 5] seven blowpipes.
— from A Handbook of Laboratory Glass-Blowing by Bernard D. Bolas

Those who should have been its support were engrossed by trade or propagandism.
— from France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman