Bliss poured forth like a fountain through endless, newly opened soul-pores.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Il tempo è una lima sorda —Time is a file that emits no noise.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

This idea plunged me into a reverie, so despairing and frightful, that even now, when the scene is on the point of closing before me for ever, I shudder to reflect on it.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

His presence in human flesh sweeps away forever the evil notion that there is about the human body something innately offensive to the Deity.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

Thus not only is it true, as many have held, that the forms under which religious powers have been represented to the mind do not express them exactly, and that the symbols with the aid of which they have been thought of partially hide their real nature, but more than that, behind these images and figures there exists nothing but the nightmares of primitive minds.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

As for Albert and Franz, they essayed not to escape from their ciceronian tyrants; and, indeed, it would have been so much the more difficult to break their bondage, as the guides alone are permitted to visit these monuments with torches in their hands.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

We might push the analogy a little further, for the ideas and customs which it maintains and furnishes to each new generation as guides for their behavior in life are analogous to the determinate methods of reaction, the inherited impulses, reflexes, and instincts with which heredity furnishes the individual.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Apart from the exceptions noted, whichever tense the writer chooses, he should use throughout.
— from The Elements of Style by William Strunk

This commerce he likewise extended to medals, bronzes, busts, intaglios, and old china, and kept divers artificers continually employed in making antiques for the English nobility.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The graveyard, removed, as is usually the case in this country, some little way out of town, attracted our attention, and was admired for the extreme neatness with which it was planted and otherwise kept.
— from Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig

Of course, it is the difference between two races, for the Irish are mainly Celtic, and the Celtic way of thinking and speaking and feeling is as different as possible from the Saxon or the Teuton, and the Celt has influenced the Anglo-Irish till they are as far away from the English nearly as the Celts themselves.
— from Peeps at Many Lands: Ireland by Katharine Tynan

They were speculating, first of all, as to whether it might not be good policy to arrest Cowperwood, and if necessary try him, since his mere arrest would seem to the general public, at least, positive proof of his greater guilt, to say nothing of the virtuous indignation of the administration, and in consequence might tend to divert attention from the evil nature of the party until after election.
— from The Financier: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

His heart almost burst in its admiration for that extraordinary Nella, who by mere personal force had raised two men out of the deepest slough of despair to the blissful heights of hope and happiness.
— from The Grand Babylon Hôtel by Arnold Bennett

"Oh! general, I shall go where you like, be sure of that," said the fisherman, with a fear too expressive not to be exaggerated.
— from The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas

As he paused for breath, there was a murmur of approval for the eloquence, none for the thought it held.
— from Voices in the Night by Flora Annie Webster Steel

None of the ordinary quadrupeds with which we are familiar then existed, nor any related to nor resembling them.
— from Dinosaurs, with Special Reference to the American Museum Collections by William Diller Matthew

He had just, by way of a finishing touch, expended nearly half a penny bottle of red ink in a somewhat exaggerated reproduction of the fiery hue of Noaks's nose, when the bell rang for afternoon school, and the bombardment had to be postponed until the following day.
— from The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs by Harold Avery