"This goal could be (1) kama , desire, activity of the life of the senses ( Sudra stage), (2) artha , gain, fulfilling but controlling the desires ( Vaisya stage), (3) dharma , self-discipline, the life of responsibility and right action ( Kshatriya stage), (4) moksha , liberation, the life of spirituality and religious teaching ( Brahmin stage).
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

My wife being waked rung her bell, and the mayds rose and went to washing, we to sleep again till 7 o’clock, and then up, and I abroad to look out Dr. Williams, but being gone out I went to Westminster, and there seeing my Lord Sandwich’s footman knew he was come to town, and so I went in and saw him, and received a kind salute from him, but hear that my father is very ill still.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Each shot happily went wide, and as a result Alexander Kerensky still lives to pilot Russia to her freedom.
— from Rasputin the Rascal Monk Disclosing the Secret Scandal of the Betrayal of Russia by the Mock-Monk Grichka and the Consequent Ruin of the Romanoffs. With official documents revealed and recorded for the first time. by William Le Queux

Agriculture remains a key sector of the economy.
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The foremost wolf made a rush at Katie, stopped, sniffed at her dress, and slunk aside.
— from Boris the Bear-Hunter by Frederick Whishaw

In Dumont's mind and conversation, wit and reason are kept separate; but in Macintosh they are mixed, and he uses both in argument, knowing the full value and force of each: never attempting to pass wit for logic, he forges each link of the chain of demonstration, and then sends the electric spark of wit through it.
— from The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Maria Edgeworth

They were now at rest and kept so by means of a lever that prevented all vibration whatever.
— from The Silent Bullet by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve