My companion was only partly attentive to the ensuing eloquence, but I was wholeheartedly listening to myself.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

This alone promised the empire such commercial and political advantages that the enormous expenditures and the frightful hardships which these expeditions caused Siberia, might be justified.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

A practice approaching to this existed even in the old French monarchy, so far as regarded the pays d'états , each of which, having consented or been required to furnish a fixed sum, was left to assess it upon the inhabitants by its own officers, thus escaping the grinding despotism of the royal intendants and subdélégués; and this privilege is always mentioned as one of the advantages which mainly contributed to render them, as some of them were, the most flourishing provinces of France.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

And they fell to talking of the last war news, and each concealed from the other his perplexity as to the engagement expected next day, since the Turks had been beaten, according to the latest news, at all points.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Negligence is not foresight, but precisely the want of it; and if foresight were presumed, the ground of the presumption, and therefore the essential element, would be the knowledge of facts which made foresight possible.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

It was a terrible pause; and terrible to every ear were the corroborating sounds of opening doors and passing footsteps.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

He acquired a vast kingdom, and had the most powerful army that the East ever saw, or will see.
— from Wanderings in India, and Other Sketches of Life in Hindostan by John Lang

This more properly applies to the entire empire, while the main island is named in the military geography of Japan, Hondo.
— from The War in the East: Japan, China, and Corea by Trumbull White

(The pure desires are free from the influence of passions, and tendency to earthly enjoyments; which cause holy life and give longevity to man).
— from The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2) by Valmiki

They cannot be meant for screens to conceal the guns from the driven birds, for the British public has to stand a good deal of shooting in illegal proximity to high roads, but it would hardly tolerate permanent arrangements to that end, even in Norfolk or Suffolk, where game is sacrosanct.
— from Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by James Edmund Vincent

And, in conclusion, we desire to call particular attention to the ensuing extract, as an evidence of the falsehood of the charge which our enemies are at present disposed to make against the Catholic Church of "sanctioning some of the worst enormities of slavery:" "And here we would take occasion to deplore the conduct of the civil government in this country, regarding the matrimonial contract of slaves, which, though the rulers profess Christianity, is completely ignored even as a civil contract, and left entirely to the caprice of owners, who frequently without scruple or hesitation, and for the sake of interest or gain, part man and wife, separate parents from their children, and treat the matrimonial union among them as if it were really no more than the chance association of unreasoning animals.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

When the ring was placed over the mouth of the invalid the string was pulled and the ring dropped and rolled out of the lodge, the long tail of white cotton yarn, with eagle plume attached to the end, extending far behind.
— from Ceremonial of Hasjelti Dailjis and Mythical Sand Painting of the Navajo Indians by James Stevenson

As the Pope advanced to the eventful enclosure, two former comrades in one lawyer's office held the corners of his pluvial—the Cardinals Antonelli and Mertel.
— from The Pope, the Kings and the People A History of the Movement to Make the Pope Governor of the World by a Universal Reconstruction of Society from the Issue of the Syllabus to the Close of the Vatican Council by William Arthur

In fine, he put himself into the Hands of Don Pedro , and to this Effect embark’d on three Janguas , and meeting with Villagra , they went over with all the rest into his Galleys, to be carry’d to the General.
— from The Discovery and Conquest of the Molucco and Philippine Islands. Containing their History, Ancient and Modern, Natural and Political: Their Description, Product, Religion, Government, Laws, Languages, Customs, Manners, Habits, Shape, and Inclinations of the Natives. With an Account of many other adjacent Islands, and several remarkable Voyages through the Streights of Magellan, and in other Parts. by Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola

"This passenger agent that took 'em East put 'em up at one of the big hotels all right, but he subjects 'em to hardships they ain't used to.
— from Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson