During my stay in India I was taking every opportunity of contacting direct disciples and relatives of the Yogavatar.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

exaltavit super regnum patrum meorum , &c. Mihi concessit propitia divinitas, cum anglorum imperis omnia regna insularum oceani , &c. Cum suis ferocibus regibus usque Norvegiam, maximamque partem Hiberniæ, cum sua nobilissima civitate de Dublina, Anglorum regno subjugare, quapropter et ego Christi gloriam et laudem in regno meo exaltare, et ejus servitium amplificare devotus disposui , &c.
— from Novanglus, and Massachusettensis or, Political Essays, Published in the Years 1774 and 1775, on the Principal Points of Controversy, between Great Britain and Her Colonies by Daniel Leonard

Accordingly, I did neither; and when a great ice cake came driving down, and, raising his hand again as though in recognition of my forbearance, he wheeled the mare and vanished into a thicker rush of snow, I stood motionless and let him go.
— from The Mistress of Bonaventure by Harold Bindloss

An oligarchy of learning, where the educated govern the ignorant, or even an oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex, which makes father, brothers, husband, sons the oligarch over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household; which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects; carries dissension, discord and rebellion into every home of the nation."
— from Labor and Freedom: The Voice and Pen of Eugene V. Debs by Eugene V. (Eugene Victor) Debs

May 27-June 1 Third German drive, capturing the Chemin des Dames and reaching the Marne River east of Chateau-Thierry.
— from A School History of the Great War by Charles Augustin Coulomb

Put men on board who can work their own way over, and who, as soon as they land, can do duty as regular troops.
— from The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo by Creasy, Edward Shepherd, Sir

"Mais je ne fais pas autre chose depuis dix ans," répondit le jeune politicien.
— from Collections and Recollections by George William Erskine Russell

Experiments were made as to these vibrations, and it was proved that, after a little study, one could distinctly detect and recognise the crepitations in relation to each individual .
— from Palmistry for All by Cheiro