How could a nothing like me produce riches for you?' "'Guruji,' I cried, 'I implore pardon a million times!
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

In mockery to the enormous gate which rose O'er them in almost pyramidic pride: The gate so splendid was in all its features, You never thought about those little creatures, Until you nearly trod on them, and then You started back in horror to survey The wondrous hideousness of those small men, Whose colour was not black, nor white, nor grey, But an extraneous mixture, which no pen Can trace, although perhaps the pencil may; They were mis-shapen pigmies, deaf and dumb— Monsters, who cost a no less monstrous sum.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

And of women likewise; there was not, however, any definite character in them, because the soul, when choosing a new life, must of necessity become different.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

We faintly catch still more fugitive glimpses of mechanical effects, glimpses suggested by man's complex actions, no longer merely by his gestures.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

In our opinion, cenobites are not lazy men, and recluses are not idlers.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

ATHENIAN: You have understood my meaning right well, Cleinias, and now let me ask you another question.
— from Laws by Plato

‘There’s the Memorial-’ ‘To be sure there is,’ said I. ‘But all we can do just now, Mr. Dick, is to keep a cheerful countenance, and not let my aunt see that we are thinking about it.’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Cf. also note la mano , p. 4, 5. 9-3: cayó redondo : fell suddenly (collapsed).
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

The senior soon dropped [Pg 83] into a comfortable afternoon nap, leaving me in full command.
— from The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker Ventures and adventures; sixty-three years of pioneer life in the old Oregon country; an account of the author's trip across the plains with an ox team; return trip, 1906-7; his cruise on Puget Sound, 1853; trip through the Natchess pass, 1854; over the Chilcoot pass; flat-boating on the Yukon, 1898. The Oregon trail. by Ezra Meeker

I wished to elevate their souls, to cultivate their minds, and in short, to make them my free companions and no longer my helots.
— from French and Oriental Love in a Harem by Mario Uchard

Of one thing he was very sure; come what would, he never could ask nice little Mattie Baker to become the wife of a murderer.
— from The Worst Boy in Town by John Habberton

I would generally reluctantly consent just to break the back of the token ; but James would beguile me, or laugh at my complaints, and never let me off until the token was completed , fair and square!
— from Tiger and Tom and Other Stories for Boys by Various

"May the enemy of souls take me in custody, and never let me go, when I do!" promptly replied young Joe.
— from The Haunted Homestead: A Novel by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

"The battles which prolonged and finally decided the issue of the contest are now little more than names.
— from A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke

The feud between Hamilton and Jefferson gave Washington great concern and no little mortification.
— from Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing

There the merry musical laugh of her youth was to be heard, as General Mohun came out with Lancelot to make a raid, order the whole party to come and eat luncheon at Beechcroft Cottage, and not let Mrs. Grinstead come out again.
— from The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge