"Friends of other lives easily recognize one another in the astral world," Sri Yukteswar went on in his beautiful, flutelike voice.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

It is certain, however, that Publius Vitellius, of Nuceria, whether of an ancient family, or of low extraction, was a Roman knight, and a procurator to Augustus.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Som such resemblances methinks I find Of our last Eevnings talk, in this thy dream, But with addition strange; yet be not sad.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

As likewise all kinde of practicques, freites, or other like extraordinarie actiones, which cannot abide the true toutche of naturall reason.
— from Daemonologie. by King of England James I

Some such resemblances, methinks, I find Of our last evening's talk, in this thy dream, But with addition strange; yet be not sad.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Above all, would he be accompanied by a force of officers large enough to storm the castle and overpower its inmates?
— from Castle Craneycrow by George Barr McCutcheon

The summers come and go; we rush to and fro on our little errands of business and pleasure; great joys dawn in our lives, dark shadows of bitter disappointment creep over them; we are glad, sorrowful, eager, weary, well, ill; Life’s heart beats strongly, and Death is busy in its midst; we strive for the Beautiful, the True, and the Good; we hide our faces in helpless agony of shame and remorse;
— from Around the Yule Log by Willis Boyd Allen

We continued advancing, firing at every puff of smoke, the only indication of the whereabouts of our hidden enemy, until we gained the open, when we were saluted by a succession of volleys from an angle of the forest on our left, especially directed at each officer as he came up, though fortunately, without doing further injury than grazing a few of the men's accoutrements.
— from Campaigning in Kaffirland; Or, Scenes and Adventures in the Kaffir War of 1851-52 by William Ross King

With these last facts clearly in view, I must be careful not to claim for my model city more than it deserves; but calculating the mortality which would be saved, and comparing the result with the mortality which now prevails in the most favoured of our large English towns, I conclude that an average mortality of eight per thousand would be the maximum in the first generation living under this salutary régime .
— from Hygeia, a City of Health by Benjamin Ward Richardson

The outer mouldings of the centre gable are enriched with foliated crocketing with which is intermixed the early church symbol—pelican feeding her young—and the apex surmounted by a figure of our Lord enthroned: the inner portion of the gable contains, in a trefoil, a basso-relievo of the Annunciation, in alabaster.
— from Ely Cathedral by Anonymous

A forest officer of long experience, in that jungly region where the mouths of the Ganges open out into the Bay of Bengal, told me that though tigers are known to frequent those parts, he had never seen one.
— from India and the Indians by Edward Fenton Elwin

He doesn't make a fuss over our letters either—I believe he can only read a very plain hand and has to skip the longer words.
— from Combed Out by F. A. (Frederick Augustus) Voigt

A German Taube for a time flew over our lines every morning long before sunrise, of course catching all our airmen napping.
— from With the Zionists in Gallipoli by J. H. (John Henry) Patterson

It was only the struggle that lay before him which revealed in the dry and subtle schoolman the founder of our later English prose, a master of popular invective, of irony, of persuasion, a dexterous politician, an audacious partizan, the organizer of a religious order, the unsparing assailant of abuses, the boldest and most indefatigable of controversialists, the first Reformer who dared, when deserted and alone, to question and deny the creed of the Christendom around him, to break through the tradition of the past, and with his last breath to assert the freedom of religious thought against the dogmas of the Papacy.
— from History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by John Richard Green