" "Luther, you would delight in my Ranchi school, with its outdoor classes, and atmosphere of joy and simplicity.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Granatus, a precious stone so called, because it is like the kernels of a pomegranate, an imperfect kind of ruby, it comes from Calecut; [4145] if hung about the neck, or taken in drink, it much resisteth sorrow, and recreates the heart.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

‘What do I mean,’ retorted Sam; ‘come, Sir, this is rayther too rich, as the young lady said when she remonstrated with the pastry-cook, arter he’d sold her a pork pie as had got nothin’ but fat inside.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

But that secret meant for him more than disgrace; it meant ruin, suicide.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

She sat quite still, after the first momentary glance of grieved surprise, that made her eyes look like some child's who has met with an unexpected rebuff; they slowly dilated into mournful, reproachful sadness; and then they fell, and she bent over her work, and did not speak again.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Maria dell’ Arena, enriched with the wonderful creations of Giotto, must have been to the enthusiastic young painter a source of continual delight as well as a spur to emulation; although as yet Donatello, destined to give to him the final impulse in the right direction, had not come to Padua to put in hand the glorious bas-reliefs of the high altar of S. Antonio, and the even more remarkable bronze equestrian statue of Gattamelata, that was to inaugurate a new departure in modern realistic sculpture.
— from Mantegna by N. D'Anvers

Sometimes there came different, more powerful wings, and he would duck in mechanical reaction, sensing the wings sweep past, often feeling them as, with sharp pecks and quick thudding blows, they sought to stun him.
— from The Bluff of the Hawk by Anthony Gilmore

“We may,” said I; “but before we do I must repeat some lines made by a man who visited these sources, and experienced the hospitality of a chieftain in this neighbourhood four hundred years ago.”
— from Wild Wales: The People, Language, & Scenery by George Borrow

Ethyl Iodide: 15 to 20 drops inhaled may relieve spasm.
— from Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica by Merck & Co.

I hae heard that they dinna dog its members round Sunday and work days, as our deacons do.
— from Christine: A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia E. Barr

By no means devout himself, he assured us that what we saw on every side was for the most part very genuine religion, not sentiment with no result; for in those places where observance had slackened there was a marked difference in moral restraint, so potent a factor for morality was religion still in Spain.
— from Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly