In the same year Ole Kittelson and Nils T. Kvamodden, both unmarried and both also from Holden, came to the settlement.
— 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 to your threats, reserve them for people of your own kind; and never forget, that between my breast and your dagger there is an insurmountable barrier.”
— from Wood Rangers: The Trappers of Sonora by Mayne Reid
Our poor house of the Favara is indeed unworthy of such an honour from you, so much desired by even the Queen herself; but we are an ancient race of the same Norman blood as your own kings and nobles.
— from The Admiral: A Romance of Nelson in the Year of the Nile by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen
If you only knew all, now!
— from A Secret of the Lebombo by Bertram Mitford
“They are some men and women in your own kingdom, and not far off from this,” answered the doctor in a deep bass voice which could be heard outside the hut, where a number of persons were collected.
— from The Two Supercargoes; Or, Adventures in Savage Africa by William Henry Giles Kingston
Paten often swore he 'd have three thousand for them, and there they are now, safe in your own keeping, and not costing you one shilling.
— from One Of Them by Charles James Lever
“This is the man against whom we cautioned you,” they said; “his father Terah must have deceived you, O king, and not have given you up the right child.”
— from Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets And Other Old Testament Characters from Various Sources by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
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