I shall here also mention Ansten Nattestad, who wrote a similar book, which he took with him on his return to Norway in 1838, and had printed there; this became a factor operating toward emigration, especially in Numedal.
— 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

My sun stood hot above me at noonday: A greeting to you that are coming, Ye sudden winds, Ye cool spirits of afternoon!
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But all seemed humble and meek and not a word was said of danger, either to life or money.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

The Huzuls of the Carpathians imagine that if mice get a person’s shorn hair and make a nest of it, the person will suffer from headache or even become idiotic.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

no, to be sure—if you wanted authority over me, you should have adopted me and not married me[:] I am sure you were old enough.
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

In years gone by, you joined ancestors with the Wang family of Chin Ling, and twenty years back, they treated you with consideration; but of late, you've been so high and mighty, and not condescended to go and bow to them, that an estrangement has arisen.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

This is confirmed by the Spanish proverb: honra y provecho no caben en un saco (Honour and money are not to be found in the same purse).
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

According to the German idea she should have accepted money and not stood in the way of German progress.
— from The Audacious War by Clarence W. (Clarence Walker) Barron

This splendid young woman was nine years younger than Robert, but she had already made a name and fortune for herself before they were married.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Elbert Hubbard

Bahá’í Magazine The Star of the West, the latest issues of which I have read with genuine satisfaction, has admittedly made a notable advance towards the ideal which the Master has set before it.
— from Bahá'í Administration by Effendi Shoghi

Connecticut's law provides that all inmates of state prisons and of the state hospitals at Middletown and Norwich may be sterilized if such action is recommended by a board of three surgeons, on eugenic or therapeutic grounds.
— from Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. (Roswell Hill) Johnson

Nobody never saw him any more, and nobody wanted to.
— from Red Saunders: His Adventures West & East by Henry Wallace Phillips

She had also made a needlecase for Alice, not of so much pretension as the other one; this was green morocco, lined with crimson satin; no leaves, but ribbon stitched in to hold papers of needles, and a place for a bodkin.
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner