When the Mormons who did not believe in polygamy established themselves at Lamoni some years later, many Norwegians of that belief went with them.
— 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

At length she returned with a lamp; and Archer, having meanwhile put together a phrase out of Dante and Petrarch, evoked the answer: "La signora e fuori; ma verra subito"; which he took to mean: "She's out—but you'll soon see.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

But you timorous virgins form a dreadful chimæra of a husband, as of a creature contrary to that soft, humble, pliant, easy thing, a lover; so guess at plagues in matrimony, in opposition to the pleasures of courtship.
— from The Comedies of William Congreve: Volume 1 [of 2] by William Congreve

Within the last few years the medical profession and the public of this country have been asked to believe that a combination of cottage cheese—​or its equivalent—​with a small amount of glycero­phos­phates is capable, when sold under a proprietary name and with the right kind of advertising, of producing physiologic effects that are little short of marvelous.
— from The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)

Secondly, on account of a religious order falling away from the perfection it ought to have: for instance, if in a more severe religious order, the religious begin to live less strictly, it is commendable for one to pass even to a less severe religious order if the observance is better.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

"Not her," said May Girmory, "she has a riding skirt, the way folk has them made in London, and gangs by at a hand-gallop, a different powny every time, and Lord, she doesna spare them!"
— from Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

To them it was positive evidence that any longer stay in the neighbourhood would be simply a waste of time.
— from The Giraffe Hunters by Mayne Reid

In a few minutes there was a cry heard, and as the party hastened towards the spot whence it came, they found Davie Summers pointing eagerly to a little snow-hut in the midst of a group of bergs.
— from The World of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

—Sir John Franklin says, in his ‘Polar Expeditions,’ that a low state of temperature is favourable for the production of brilliant coruscations.
— from Auroræ: Their Characters and Spectra by J. Rand Capron