“How the pleasing plague had stolen on him” he could not say; and before he had expressed the same sentiment with a little variation of words three times over, his sister eagerly interrupted him with, “Ah, my dear Henry, and this is what took you to London!
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

When he properly places his sense of identity, he leaves behind all compulsive patterns.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

In one passage Plato himself seems to intimate that the time had now come for Socrates, who had passed his whole life in philosophy, to give his own opinion and not to be always repeating the notions of other men.
— from The Republic by Plato

And in a preceding passage he says:— Believing nothing, but such circumstances As have befallen each.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

vocal music, vocalism[obs3]; chaunt, chant; psalm, psalmody; hymn; song &c. (poem) 597; canticle, canzonet[obs3], cantata, bravura, lay, ballad, ditty, carol, pastoral, recitative, recitativo[obs3], solfeggio[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Let him go, And presently prefer his suit to Caesar.
— from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Under the chaplain’s guidance they selected many hideous presents and mementoes—florid little picture-frames that seemed fashioned in gilded pastry; other little frames, more severe, that stood on little easels, and were carven out of oak; a blotting book of vellum; a Dante of the same material; cheap mosaic brooches, which the maids, next Christmas, would never tell from real; pins, pots, heraldic saucers, brown art-photographs; Eros and Psyche in alabaster; St. Peter to match—all of which would have cost less in London.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

“The Parisian police,” he said, “are exceedingly able in their way.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

The church, on the other hand, which has lost much of its influence since the printed page has so largely taken the place of the pulpit in the interpretation of life, seems at present to be in process of readjustment to the new conditions.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The psychical process has still to come.
— from Theism and Humanism Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered at the University of Glasgow, 1914 by Arthur James Balfour

[Pg 151] "Some of them are prettier pictures," he said, "but the Weather Bureau sheet is chosen to help observers classify the clouds.
— from The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

With the priest to shrive,— With parents preventing her soul's release By kisses that keep alive,— With heaven's gold gates about to ope,— With friends' praise, gold-like, lingering still,— What instinct had bidden the girl's hand grope For gold, the true sort?—"Gold in heaven, I hope;
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The desperate Colonel who had snatched up his cap when he heard Walters coming, grinned painfully, pulling his straggly red and white beard nervously.
— from The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by Various

Why then, forget both and stay here at peace, Come into our community, enroll Herself along with those good Convertites, Those sinners saved, those Magdalens re-made, Accept their ministration, well bestow Her body and patiently possess her soul, Until we see what better can be done.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

“Please, policeman,” he said, “it wasn't him; it was me as took the loaf.”
— from A Rough Shaking by George MacDonald

Hubert's arm rose, and seeing the pistol pointed heavenward several of the young women in the carriages screwed their fingers into their ears.
— from Ann Arbor Tales by Karl Edwin Harriman

@Paraguay:Government Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Paraguay conventional short form: Paraguay local long form: Republica del Paraguay local short form: Paraguay Data code: PA Government type: constitutional republic Capital: Asuncion Administrative divisions: 17 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento) and one capital city; Alto Paraguay, Alto Parana, Amambay, Asuncion (city), Boqueron, Caaguazu, Caazapa, Canindeyu, Central, Concepcion, Cordillera, Guaira, Itapua, Misiones, Neembucu, Paraguari, Presidente Hayes, San Pedro Independence: 14 May 1811 (from Spain) National holiday: Independence Days, 14-15 May (1811) Constitution: promulgated 20 June 1992
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

A trader in Philadelphia papered his shop with dollar bills, to show what he thought of the flimsy stuff.
— from Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools by Francis Kingsley Ball

This somewhat predicatory article, published in Nos. 11, 13 and 14 of the Papel Periodico , proves how seriously the men at the head of the great intellectual revival of the century's end took their task of rousing the people from their torpor.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson