He never visited the theater, for instance, but sought his recreation in various spiritual practices and in reading the bhagavad gita .
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasions for teazing and quarrelling with you as often as may be; and I shall begin directly by asking you what made you so unwilling to come to the point at last.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Gentleman would rather prefer an increased rent to parting with five hundred guineas at once, and if that is the only difficulty it will not be minded.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

But she had beauty, pride, ambition, insolent resolve, and sense enough to portion out a legion of fine ladies.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Fourthly, The tickling pricks of incontinency are blunted by an eager study; for from thence proceedeth an incredible resolution of the spirits, that oftentimes there do not remain so many behind as may suffice to push and thrust forwards the generative resudation to the places thereto appropriated, and therewithal inflate the cavernous nerve whose office is to ejaculate the moisture for the propagation of human progeny.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Accordingly, setting the young lady free, she went back to sleep with her priest and Isabetta returned to her lover, whom many a time thereafter she let come thither, in despite of those who envied her, whilst those of the others who were loverless pushed their fortunes in secret, as best they knew."
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

In the first place, as is reasonable, I shall begin my speech from my father Philip.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

The little rogue had been put up to some sly tricks by a horse with whom he had been observed to have been conferring over the fence for some days previously, and I remember the almost comic provocation with which he let us sidle up to him, with blandishments and barley, until just within range for the halter, and then, at the very moment of attainment, was off, and anon standing demure and meek at the other end of the field.
— from The Harvest of a Quiet Eye: Leisure Thoughts for Busy Lives by John Richard Vernon

Our enemy is that boaster, who speaks in the name of the common people and is ready to tickle us under the armpits, so that we should smile on him.
— from Whirlpools: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Four days it took to put all in readiness, and at dawn of the fifth day the crossing of the stream began.
— from The North American Indian, Vol. 1 by Edward S. Curtis

Besides, although it is generally a fact that those who are thus begotten excel other men, yet such superiority is not always shown by their vices, but sometimes by their virtues and even their morals; Scipio Africanus, for instance, Cæsar Augustus and Plato the Philosopher, as is recorded of each of them respectively by Livy, Suetonius and Diogenes Laertius, had excellent morals.
— from Demoniality; or, Incubi and Succubi by Ludovico Maria Sinistrari

The tanning materials, after being ground, crushed or shredded, are placed in large pits arranged in "rounds," "sets," or "batteries" of 6, 8 or 10 units, through which water is percolated systematically, so as to secure a continuous extraction.
— from Animal Proteins by Hugh Garner Bennett

In his lofty sentences the old heroes seemed to pass again in review before us, and the daily life of that heroic band, when Congress sat inactive and careless of its needs until the camp rose in mutiny, happily checked, however, by the great commander in a single sentence.
— from The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention by Wallace Bruce

It is supposed, indeed, that Persian art is really 180 the source of invention of many forms commonly called Arabian and Indian, and these forms have travelled both east and west, and have been modified in the countries of their adoption.
— from The Bases of Design by Walter Crane

Presently Miss Ponsonby, as if realising that there might be wakeful eyes among the patients, got up and went out into the corridor.
— from The Locusts' Years by Mary H. (Mary Helen) Fee

For a few seconds I was under the impression that the havoc thus quickly wrought by our guns had so far discouraged the pirates that they intended to abandon the attack upon the islet—for there were several very evident signs of hesitation among them—but presently, apparently in response to the exhortations of Fernandez, who pulled along the line in a fast gig, the oars dipped once more, and the remnant of the flotilla most gallantly resumed its advance, amid cheers and yells of encouragement and defiance that clearly reached us on the islet.
— from A Middy of the King: A Romance of the Old British Navy by Harry Collingwood

Consequently, all good anglers, when they hook a fish which is worth taking, keep its head down the stream, prevent the water from washing over its gills, and consequently render it so weak by deprivation of oxygen, that it becomes an easy prey, and is rendered subservient to a line of a single hair.
— from Nature's Teachings: Human Invention Anticipated by Nature by J. G. (John George) Wood