"I hardly think, Swamiji, that any automobile has ever penetrated into the interior as far as Biur.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

This was much better than flying the country, by Dieppe, like D'Haussez; or by Membrolle, like Guernon-Ranville; or being captured, disguised as a footboy, and blacking the boots of Madame de Saint Fargeau, like poor Polignac!"
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Tomorrow I shall put away my 'fuss and feathers' and be desperately good again," she answered with an affected little laugh.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

"Again, on a second occasion, the same Medosades came when I had crossed over from Parium to rejoin the army; and he promised me that if I would bring you the army, you would in various respects treat me as a friend and brother.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

Many boys are troubled with perspiring feet and are frequently annoyed by the odor resulting.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

And here a fresh alarm brought me to a standstill with a thumping heart.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

In unison did the rowers ply their sculls, yet it was though of itself that the skiff shot forward, bird-like, over the glassy surface of the water; while at intervals the broad-shouldered young oarsman who was seated third from the bow would raise, as from a nightingale’s throat, the opening staves of a boat song, and then be joined by five or six more, until the melody had come to pour forth in a volume as free and boundless as Russia herself.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

"No, no, Miss Phoebe!" said Judge Pyncheon in a voice as deep as a thunder-growl, and with a frown as black as the cloud whence it issues.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I objected to appearing in this for two reasons: for one, because berry-picking was not a recognized out-door sport, and, for another, because I didn’t like raspberries.
— from Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

The Spark lit, quivered, sunk, and flashed again; but the wood lay unlighted beneath it.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Samoans have been for some time on the island, and though, I dare say, their teaching has been very imperfect and only perhaps ten or fifteen people are baptized, they have chapels, and are far advanced beyond any of the islands except Nengone and Toke, always excepting Anaiteum.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

It is only a formal analogy, but it does not lack a deeper basis.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

A forge, a bellows, an anvil, crucibles, molds, tongs, scissors, pliers, files, awls, cold-chisels, matrix and die for molding buttons, wooden implement used in grinding buttons, wooden stake, basin, charcoal, tools and materials for soldering (blow-pipe, braid of cotton rags soaked in grease, wire, and borax), materials for polishing (sand-paper, emery-paper, powdered sandstone, sand, ashes, and solid stone), and materials for whitening (a native mineral substance—almogen—salt and water).
— from Navajo Silversmiths Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 167-178 by Washington Matthews

Delay was caused, and finally a battering-ram some forty feet in length, worked by thirty men, completed the demolition.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch by Arthur Dimock

Strange to say, neither understood a word of each other’s language, and it would appear, from this example, that words are not necessary where such expressive things as eyes and flowers are brought into play.
— from The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon by Habeeb Risk Allah

And I gave that old man gold, and sent him away delighted, for all I wanted was to be rid of him as quickly as I could, lest I should fall into a fever and begin to rave, and betray my secret against my will.
— from The Substance of a Dream by F. W. (Francis William) Bain

In view of the fact that the operations have all been thoroughly tested, this process now becomes not a formal analysis but merely a check.
— from Sound Military Decision by Naval War College (U.S.)