Sri Yukteswar, however, with his love of simplicity, dispensed with all formal rites and merely asked me to select a new name.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

There is a strong family resemblance about misdeeds, and if you have all the details of a thousand at your finger ends, it is odd if you can’t unravel the thousand and first.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

“My father has revealed the culprit’s name; my father thirsts for revenge as much as you do, yet even he conjures you as I do to keep this secret.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Hustings-speeches, Parliamentary motions, Reform Bills, French Revolutions, all mean at heart this; or else nothing.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

The life of the family should be studied intensively in order to define more exactly the nature of the family consensus, the mechanism of family rapport, and minor accommodations made to minimize conflict and to avert tendencies to disintegration in the interest of this real unity.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

BUNCH [3] [fresh] RUE AND MARJORAM AND COOK WITH THE FISH.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

What a lot of talk there was of schools, of village libraries, of universal education; but if all these engineers, these mine-owners and ladies of her acquaintance, had not been hypocrites, and really had believed that enlightenment was necessary, they would not have paid the schoolmasters fifteen roubles a month as they did now, and would not have let them go hungry.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Returning once more to the statement that Vara meant the Man of the Fourth Round, as much as the Earth of those days, the Moon, and even Noah's Ark, if one will so have it—this is again shown in the dialogue between Ahura Mazda and Zarathushtra.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

Then he saw Paul Solange raise himself upon his bed, and, seeing the fire, pass his hands over his eyes and his forehead, jump to the floor, reflect a moment, as if endeavoring to remember something, then seize a chair, get upon it, and pull the bolt of the trap-door.
— from In Search of a Son by William Shepard Walsh

A scribe is of course capable of anything, but with an uncial tum to start from, tamen is not a natural mistake to commit; it would rather appear that the scribe falsely resolved a minuscule abbreviation.
— from A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by Edward Kennard Rand

Towards the end of the fourth round Apollo made another of his mad, tearing rushes at me, and this time he got me over the ropes.
— from Twenty Years of Spoof and Bluff by Carlton

"Petrarch, when his friend the bishop, thinking that he was overworked, took away the key of his library, was restless and miserable the first day, had a bad headache the second, and was so ill by the third day that the bishop, in alarm, returned the key and let his friend read as much as he liked."
— from Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes by J. M. Judy

They had passports for Rena and myself and Benedetto; for Zorchi they had none.
— from Preferred Risk by Edson McCann

After giving the army four days' rest, Enghien determined to resort to the tactics that Turenne had from the first recommended, and, marching along the plain, ascended the valley of Bloterthal and made for St. Pierre, where he would cut the Bavarian line of retreat.
— from Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

#Turn left at that feeder road a mile ahead,# I thought at Farrow and she nodded.
— from Highways in Hiding by George O. (George Oliver) Smith

Parnel, my fellow, ran after me and affrighted me.”
— from The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt