If I were still not brought to reason by all this, but persisted in my revolt, he would suddenly begin sighing while he looked at me, long, deep sighs as though measuring by them the depths of my moral degradation, and, of course, it ended at last by his triumphing completely: I raged and shouted, but still was forced to do what he wanted.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

All the holy ones of God have tried with heart and soul to spread the light of love and unity throughout the world, so that the darkness of materiality might disappear and the light of spirituality might shine forth among the children of men.
— from Paris Talks by `Abdu'l-Bahá

The stumbling-block in the way of home rule is that there has been created a debt of many million dollars as a result of the war.
— from The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 34, July 1, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various

Committees of the National Assembly The diligent efforts exerted by the various committees of the National Spiritual Assembly, those for National Teaching, for the Ma sh riqu’l-A dh kár, the Star of the West, the National Library, for the reviewing and publication of Bahá’í literature, for education, for the National Archives and the Race Amity Conventions, have cheered and heartened me in the discharge of my manifold duties, and constitute in themselves a convincing evidence and inspiring example to the Bahá’í world of the efficient spiritual administration of the affairs of the Bahá’í world.
— from Bahá'í Administration by Effendi Shoghi

The sudden illness and death of my mother destroyed all my happiness.
— from Heroines of the Crusades by C. A. (Celestia Angenette) Bloss

At length, after the delay of many months, disgusted and disillusioned, the Black Prince led back his army to Bordeaux, bearing the germs of the fatal malady of which he died soon after.
— from Old Court Life in Spain, vol. 2/2 by Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot

Dr. N. S. Davis in the American Medical Temperance Quarterly of January, 1895, gives reports of cases which came under his observation as a consulting physician, where the use of alcoholics throughout an extended illness favored the continuance of delirium, or mild mental disorder, after convalescence was established.
— from Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen

What followed I will tell in the words of Mr. John Hosking, who, in his sworn statement regarding the death of Mr. Maddocks, deposes as follows:— "The call was answered by a shout of 'Tchaia,' 'strike.'
— from Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia Being a Narrative of Events in Matabeleland Both Before and During the Recent Native Insurrection Up to the Date of the Disbandment of the Bulawayo Field Force by Frederick Courteney Selous