41-8: Manu is the universal lawgiver; not alone for Hindu society, but for the world.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Similar to such measures is the unwritten law of the back districts and small towns of the South, that the character of all Negroes unknown to the mass of the community must be vouched for by some white man.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

The most important remnant of the Odin myth is the universal legend of the Wild Huntsman.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

[Byron]; "music is the universal language of mankind" [Longfellow]; "music's golden tongue" [Keats]; "the speech of angels" [Carlyle]; "will sing the savageness out of a bear"
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

I dressed myself in the uniform like the other students, wearing a white coat, or americana , [ 36 ] and a necktie, and entered the chapel of the Jesuit Fathers to hear mass.
— from Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal

I heard an intelligent settler, who resided some years in the township of Madoc, state that, during his residence in that township, a similar hurricane to the one I have described, though of a much more awful character, passed through a part of Marmora and Madoc, and had been traced, in a north-easterly direction, upwards of forty miles into the unsurveyed lands; the uniform width of which appeared to be three quarters of a mile.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

These attacks were usually made in the uncertain light of the evening, when the Christians could not effectively use their pistols.
— from Captain John Smith by C. H. Forbes-Lindsay

Twenty minutes is the utmost limit for bathing or swimming in salt or fresh water.
— from Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Joel Dorman Steele

Seventeen years later, 1884, at Salisbury, N.C., a doctrinal basis was adopted, which in 1886 resulted in the organization of the United Synod in the South, now merged into the United Lutheran Church in America.
— from American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) by F. (Friedrich) Bente

Their semblance comes again—I see them move In long procession slow, with joy or pain Enrobed, with faces hid, and eyes of doubt or love: [49] XVI Until the day which died with yestern sun Begins to merge in that unending line; And soon her lingering sister will be one For on her face the light has ceased to shine.
— from Renascence: A Book of Verse by Walter Crane

With such a training as Smith had received in his many strange adventures, he was well equipped for the various difficulties that had to be met in the unsettled life of the new colony in the forests of Virginia.
— from American Leaders and Heroes: A preliminary text-book in United States History by Wilbur F. (Wilbur Fisk) Gordy

GROWTH AND PURIFICATION X. PROBATION IN THIS LIFE XI. MINISTRY IN THE UNSEEN LIFE XII.
— from The Gospel of the Hereafter by J. Paterson (John Paterson) Smyth

The Eskimos, chanting songs, loomed ahead, their forms magnified in the unearthly light.
— from My Attainment of the Pole Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909. With the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy by Frederick Albert Cook

She handed him a card, marked in the upper left-hand corner, “Lesson No. 1,” and he read: “ Chi si marita alla svelta si pente Adagio. ”
— from Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Mathew Joseph Holt

"Thus do they manage in the unbelieving land of Aram," said the leech, as he raised a finger to his lips, and added, "Remember, prince, what Thou hast promised, and of boiling pitch in this place think whatever suits thee."
— from The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Bolesław Prus