When we came into Lucy’s room I could see that Van Helsing had, with his usual forethought, been putting matters straight and making everything look as pleasing as possible.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Referring to yoga's sure and methodical efficacy, Lord Krishna praises the technological yogi in the following words: "The yogi is greater than body-disciplining ascetics, greater even than the followers of the path of wisdom ( Jnana Yoga ), or of the path of action ( Karma Yoga ); be thou, O disciple Arjuna, a yogi!"
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

There was an icy feeling at the back of my neck and all down my spine, and my ears, like my feet, were dead, yet in torment; but there was in my breast a sense of warmth which was, by comparison, delicious.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
— from A Shropshire Lad by A. E. (Alfred Edward) Housman

I should like to be such a man.” Edmund laughed.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

She's a most exquisite lady.
— from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare

horse and foot; horse soldier; cavalry, horse, artillery, horse artillery, light horse, voltigeur[Fr], uhlan, mounted rifles, dragoon, hussar; light dragoon, heavy dragoon; heavy; cuirassier[Fr]; Foot Guards, Horse Guards. gunner, cannoneer, bombardier, artilleryman[obs3], matross[obs3]; sapper, sapper and miner; engineer; light infantry, rifles,chasseur[Fr], zouave; military train, coolie. army, corps d'armee[Fr], host, division, battalia[obs3], column, wing, detachment, garrison, flying column, brigade, regiment, corps, battalion, sotnia[obs3], squadron, company, platoon, battery, subdivision, section, squad; piquet, picket, guard, rank, file; legion, phalanx, cohort; cloud of skirmishers.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

“Would you have me, when he comes to me, bid him go elsewhere, to you or somebody else, it matters not?” “No, but I should be glad if your countenance did not, at such a moment, expand like a sunflower; I should like you, at the risk of somewhat belying yourself, to have the strength to moderate and restrain that vein of talk and conversation of which you have given yourself the supremacy and monopoly; I wish you had the generosity to show, now and again, less wit.
— from Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Complete by Madame de Montespan

"Then there are crowds of little things with pricks all over their backs, and if you turn them over they stick out those splinters sideways, and make 'em long-like, and pull themselves right side up again," said John, trying to imitate, with his own arms, the sea-urchin's movements with his spines.
— from The Academy Boys in Camp by Keene, S. F., Mrs.

"No, but I should be glad if your countenance did not, at such a moment, expand like a sunflower; I should like you, at the risk of somewhat belying yourself, to have the strength to moderate and restrain that vein of talk and conversation of which you have given yourself the supremacy and monopoly; I wish you had the generosity to show, now and again, less wit.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

She's a most exquisite Lady Iago.
— from Othello by William Shakespeare

" "Yes," the governor replied, "if every country in Christendom would unite against their common foe, and send a quota of ships and men, we would drive the Black Raven from the seas, and might even land on the Danish shores and give them a taste of the suffering they have inflicted elsewhere.
— from The Dragon and the Raven; Or, The Days of King Alfred by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty