My body, Master's, the pillared courtyard, the furniture and floor, the trees and sunshine, occasionally became violently agitated, until all melted into a luminescent sea; even as sugar crystals, thrown into a glass of water, dissolve after being shaken.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

The common crowd but see the gloom / Of wayward deeds and fitting doom; / The close observer can espy / A noble soul and lineage high.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Up before day and thence rode to London before office time, where I met a note at the doore to invite me to supper to Mrs. Pierces because of Mrs. Knipp, who is in towne and at her house: To the office, where, among other things, vexed with Major Norwood’s coming, who takes it ill my not paying a bill of Exchange of his, but I have good reason for it, and so the less troubled, but yet troubled, so as at noon being carried by my Lord Bruncker to Captain Cocke’s to dinner, where Mrs. Williams was, and Mrs. Knipp, I was not heartily merry, though a glasse of wine did a little cheer me.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

On the 8th day of February, 1884; I was sixty-four years of age, and therefore retired by the operation of the act of Congress, approved June 30, 1882; but the fact was gracefully noticed by President Arthur in the following general orders: WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, WASHINGTON, February 8, 1984.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

I cannot get on without domineering and tyrannising over someone, but ... there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

After that the gusts of wind decreased, and we got along rather better, and at last reached the mouth of the first cave or tunnel.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

He had meant to have a word alone with Madame Olenska, and failing that, to learn from her grandmother on what day, and by which train, she was returning to Washington.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

in these words: “Thirty-two graines of wheat, drie and round, taken in the middest of the eare, shoulde be the weight of a starling penie, 20 of those pence should waye one ounce, 12 ounces a pound Troy.”
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

pa- v [b(1)] allow s.t. to go on without doing anything about it, happy that it is being done or resigned to it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Minor causes were tried in the courts of the Tuaths or Aires , but greater ones were determined at the provincial assemblies, which appear to have exercised both legislative and judicial functions.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

I think, as we grow older, we decrease as individuals, and as if in an immense audience who hear stirring music, none essays to offer a new stave, but we only join emphatically in the chorus.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Many skeletons of wrecked vessels lay upon the rocks in various places: as we were flying along in full sail before a heavy gale of wind, descending a cataract, we struck upon a sandbank—fortunately not upon a rock, or we should have gone to pieces like a glass bottle.
— from The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of the Nile Sources by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

“Your good offices were duly acknowledged by my Government,” the Prince admitted.
— from The Illustrious Prince by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

It's young Egerton—the son of the great outfitter, who died a few years ago, leaving a large fortune in trust for this lad.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

If the distension be too timidly effected, so that the foreskin can be retracted over the glans only with difficulty; an equal difficulty will be found in pulling it forwards again, and temporary paraphimosis may result.
— from The Barbarity of Circumcision as a Remedy for Congenital Abnormality by Herbert Snow

When you looked at me spirit and flesh would grow one with delight, and I should come to life, and grow round and soft and warm again, and talk to you of Thebes, and you would be enchanted with me—you could not help it then.
— from Ideala by Sarah Grand

Go on with Derek and the captain, if you wish."
— from Farmer by Mack Reynolds