Kriya , on the other hand, is accompanied from the very beginning by an accession of peace, and by soothing sensations of regenerative effect in the spine.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

The hasty bondes for a word Would have betaken them to the sword, And have prolonged a bloody strife— Such men can give no price for life.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

I was preparing to go down to remind them, when the second mounted the platform, accompanied by several sailors.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

“You told him that?” said Porthos, a broad smile spreading over his honest face.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

And while he chanced to be walking through a shady woodland, he plucked up by the roots all oak that stuck in his path, and, by simply stripping it of its branches, made it look like a stout club.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Pikúta ang bàbà sa sáku, Sew the mouth of the sack.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Jane never puts any because she says it makes her feel so silly when she had to read it out loud.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

These brave troops laid waste the adjacent provinces, and by several successful actions against Artaxerxes, gave a faint color to the emperor's vanity.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The following morning was perfect, a bright sun shining and a cold nip in the air.
— from Sport in Vancouver and Newfoundland by Rogers, John Godfrey, Sir

" Madeira was a man of lightning-like execution of a plan, once he had got hold of his plan, and Bruce Steering, sharpened by circumstances into a consideration of every chance about him and even beyond him, had brought Madeira the plan from far away New York.
— from Sally of Missouri by Rose E. (Rose Emmet) Young

The Germans prepare a very palatable dish of sweet young pods alone by simply stirring in a little butter with some savory herbs.
— from The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Hugo Ziemann

In 1572, however, Father Wolf succeeded in making his escape from prison, and before setting sail for Spain he had the happiness of receiving the humble submission of William Casey, who had been promoted to the See of Limerick by Edward VI.
— from History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 2 by James MacCaffrey

Walpole's "Mysterious Mother," which at this time Byron was praising as "the last tragedy," treats a more horrible story of incest with the interest mainly in the plot, holding in suspense the fearful solution until the end; "The Cenci" begins with the act of incest, and then tries to carry our interest solely to the two characters, one the embodiment of all inherited evil, the other, a pure and beautiful spirit striving madly and in vain to free herself from wrong that is might.
— from Tragedy by Ashley Horace Thorndike