My travels ended, not in the lofty mountains, but in the Himalayan presence of my Master. 13-1: Hand-played drums, used only for devotional music.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Oh, as long as one is young one can do what one wants to do—one can walk about, and carry things, and not be dependent upon other folk.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

It is very silly of me to write in this way to you; but, when I hear her trying not to groan, and see her look smiling on me to comfort me, when I know she is in pain; and when I think that she does not know the worst, but she soon must; and then she will not complain; but I shall sit guessing at all that she is dwelling upon, of famine and misery—I feel as if my heart must break, and I do not know what I say or do; my mother—mother for whom I have borne much, God preserve you from this fate!
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The distance between them is the merest slit; but the cream is deflected up outside F into space E , and escapes through a hole one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter perforating the plate G .
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

The separate columns will start habitually at 7 a.m., and make about fifteen miles per day, unless otherwise fixed in orders.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Marseilles is filled with half-pay officers, who are daily, under one frivolous pretext or other, getting up quarrels with the royalists; from hence arise continual and fatal duels among the higher classes of persons, and assassinations in the lower.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

[FR] Guy Bertrand & Cynthia Delisle (Montréal) #Respectivement directeur scientifique et consultante au CEVEIL (Centre d'expertise et de veille inforoutes et langues) Créé en 1995, le CEVEIL est un organisme québécois qui s'intéresse à l'utilisation et au traitement des langues sur les inforoutes dans une optique francophone, via des activités de veille et
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

vēnum dō , use of, for vēndō , 1165 .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The copies of Papinian, or Ulpian, which the reformer had proscribed, were deemed unworthy of future notice: the Twelve Tables and prætorian edicts insensibly vanished, and the monuments of ancient Rome were neglected or destroyed by the envy and ignorance of the Greeks.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

And just for the same reason we can more easily bear a misfortune which comes to us entirely from without, than one which we have drawn upon ourselves; for fortune may always change, but not character.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

While the other Rangers to a man were lying still, on the back with the knees drawn up, or face downward, with the arms outstretched, or rolled on the side as though they were in bed, Vickerson was rising on his hands and dragging himself forward.
— from The Street Called Straight by Basil King

And we liked no less their infinite trouble in inventing romances about themselves that Munchausen could not have beaten, their dramatic use of foggy nights and wild storms, their ingenuity in discovering a bond between us, and their plausibility in proving why it obliged us to meet their temporary difficulties which were never of course of their own making.
— from Our House and London out of Our Windows by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

There was no space wall, there to divide us one from the other.
— from The Peacemaker by Alfred Coppel

Nothing can compensate a people for a dependence upon others for the bread they eat, and that cheerful abundance on which the happiness of everyone so much depends is to be looked for nowhere with such sure reliance as in the industry of the agriculturist and the bounties of the earth.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

Mr. Breckenridge, writing in 1811, says: "The great number of mounds, and the astonishing quantity of human bones, everywhere dug up or found on the surface of the ground, with a thousand other appearances, announces that this valley was at one time filled with habitations and villages.
— from The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races by Emory Adams Allen

Nevertheless, it has always seemed to me in what little work I have done upon organic forms, as if the species mocked us by their deliberate imitation of each other when they met; yet did not pass one into another.
— from The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm by John Ruskin

There is a small village at the water’s edge, almost directly under our feet, which can’t be seen from above—we will get round to it, perhaps to-morrow—but look in other directions.
— from Gloria Mundi by Harold Frederic

They were a damper upon our flight for the time being.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

There is much controversy about the delivering up of fugitives from service or labor.
— from Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections) by Abraham Lincoln

Wild pig also are very numerous, and lurking in the dank undergrowth or fissures of the rocks are many venomous snakes and large pythons.
— from Peeps at Many Lands: Burma by R. Talbot (Robert Talbot) Kelly