So, vexed in my mind to see things ordered so unlike gentlemen, or men of reason, I went home and to bed.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

People on distant streets seemed to be moving gently over my own remote periphery.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

hugar 2 n k.o. institution during pre-war times that gave out mortgages on real estate.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

THE COMPANY At th' other table sits a Knight, And here a grave old man ore right Against his worship , then perhaps That by and by a Drawer claps His bum close by them, there down squats A dealer in old shoes and hats ; And here withouten any panick Fear, dread or care a bold Mechanick .
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

At this time his wife was living at Woolwich, and he himself with his clerks at Greenwich; one maid only remained in the house in London.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Done to a turn, for I superintended the cooking of it myself: It was a little Gallician of my own raising, may it please your Holiness, and the flesh was as white as an egg-shell, as indeed Donna Elvira told me herself.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Likewise if the water in the spring is itself limpid and clear, if there is no growth of moss or reeds where it spreads and flows, and if its bed is not polluted by filth of any sort but has a clean appearance, these signs indicate that the water is light and wholesome in the highest degree.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Gildas, Geoffrey of Monmouth, or Richard of Cirencester are no longer accepted as safe and infallible guides.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

I say how very highly I prize that last slip you sent me, “A backward glance on my own road”?
— from The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman

A girl of my own race; a human being here on Mars!
— from Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett Putman Serviss

G o m o rẻ o , a Sodomite, a Gomorrhean.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

But I am not conscious of hating God, or man, or right, or love, and I know there is much ‘ health in me ’ ; and in my body, even now, there dwelleth many a good thing, spite of consumption and Saint Paul. ”
— from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James

The Brachiopods were another group of molluscs, or rather molluscoids for they were not true molluscs, less abundant even then than in previous ages and now surviving only in a few rare and little known types such as the lamp-shell ( Terebratulina ).
— from Dinosaurs, with Special Reference to the American Museum Collections by William Diller Matthew

What few boys and girls of my own race I had met at playtime or at Sunday school, I purposely shunned.
— from The Seven-Branched Candlestick: The Schooldays of Young American Jew by Gilbert W. (Gilbert Wolf) Gabriel

As the leaves which clothe the woods in spring, to be scattered by autumn winds, such are the generations of men: one riseth up, and another is passing away.
— from Stories from the Iliad by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell

Official figures show that private enterprise has hitherto given one mile of railway to every 6·41 square miles in the United Kingdom, 4·36 ” ” England and Wales, as compared with 10·42 ” ” France, 9·38 ” ” Germany, [54] 4·2 ” ” Belgium, 7·82 ” ” Holland.
— from Railway Rates: English and Foreign by James Grierson

The consciousness of this defect led the citizens to invite soldiers of fortune to lead their militia and give organised means of repelling attack.
— from The Heart of Asia A history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest times by Ross, E. Denison (Edward Denison), Sir