The voluntary yogi performs a simple, natural process consciously, not unconsciously like the slow-paced sleeper.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

At the end of ten or twelve days, I felt that there was no alternative but to put a stop to this state of things, or to become a monster in my own eyes; and I decided for the moral side of the question all the more easily that nothing insured me success, if I chose the second alternative.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And although he does not find in himself this proper and singular sign of judging, and that he perceives that he ought not to engage his consent, considering that there may be some false, equal to these true appearances, yet does he not, for all that, fail of carrying on the offices of his life with great liberty and convenience.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Several days passed, and I heard nothing more; and though I often felt a charitable prompting to call at the place and see poor Bartleby, yet a certain squeamishness of I know not what withheld me.
— from Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville

Let us average the ages of the Quaker City’s pilgrims and set the figure down as fifty years.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

The senses are the beginning and the end of human knowledge:— Invenies primis ab sensibns esse creatam Notitiam veil; neque sensus posse refelli....
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

They who had shrugged their shoulders at her little peculiarities and setnesses, so unlike the careless freedom of southern manners, acknowledged that now she was the exact person that was wanted.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Radburn entered, bringing with him, on a tin plate, a piece of shriveled fried pork, a slice of bread and a cup of water.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

The investigation does in fact show that aside from the conditioning which we have established by the premise, a second farther dependence is recognizable upon powerful affective thoughts, upon cycles of interest and complexes of whose influence we are ignorant, therefore unconscious at the time.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

If they cannot prove a survivorship, the judgment is that the deaths were simultaneous.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

Each general was possessed of a popgun, and swept the serried lines of the enemy with this terrible weapon.
— from Faces in the Fire, and Other Fancies by Frank Boreham

Certain it is, that the Pope did suddenly die in the night between the 19th and 20th of the following month; and the church in which his body was placed taking fire, one-half of the corpse was consumed,—a circumstance which naturally confirmed the people in the belief that his death was a special judgment of Heaven for the burning of the knights, and which probably also suggested the prediction.
— from Sketch of the History of the Knights Templars Second Edition by James Burnes

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— from Lippincott's Horn-Ashbaugh Speller For Grades One to Eight by Ernest J. (Ernest James) Ashbaugh

She set Sheila Pat a sum to work out.
— from The Young O'Briens: Being an Account of Their Sojourn in London by Margaret Westrup

Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, and Sir John Lubbock, banker and naturalist, were friends of nearly as long standing.
— from Thomas Henry Huxley: A Character Sketch by Leonard Huxley

On the right bank the wood-cutters and the field-laborors are resting upon their axes or their ploughs, and seem to ask the sun if the day is not drawing to an end.
— from Myths of the Rhine by M. Xavier

Then there was the dining-room rock, where meals were served,—daisy pudding and similar delicacies; and the kitchen rock, which had a real oven, and the most charming cupboards imaginable.
— from When I was your age by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Sending their boats ashore filled with armed men, they fell upon the villages of the poor Africans, set fire to their huts, and, while they were filled with fright, seized, handcuffed, and dragged them to their boats, and then carried them aboard ship.
— from A Child's Anti-Slavery Book Containing a Few Words about American Slave Children and Stories of Slave-Life. by Various

Barrin' a dhow or two Tajurrah-way, prizes are scarce in the Navy.
— from Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling