But as soon as Mukunda said, "During our ecstasies in the Himalayan caves, tigers will be spellbound and sit around us like tame pussies," my spirits froze; beads of perspiration formed on my brow.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

He habituated me to compare Lucretius, (in such extracts as I then read,) Terence, and above all the chaster poems of Catullus, not only with the Roman poets of the, so called, silver and brazen ages; but with even those of the Augustan aera: and on grounds of plain sense and universal logic to see and assert the superiority of the former in the truth and nativeness both of their thoughts and diction.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The night after the funeral, at which he had been sadly affected, Utterson locked the door of his business room, and sitting there by the light of a melancholy candle, drew out and set before him an envelope addressed by the hand and sealed with the seal of his dead friend.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

They are the music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

I was in the midst of such an unusual landscape that the most remarkable things would not have astonished me.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

I did so, and upon leaving the City of Silver, I filled it with fish-oil and fitted a silken wick to it.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

Yet on the other hand, he will not suffer them to be sluggish, slothful and unwarlike, lest the guardians should themselves need others to watch them, nor disobedient to their officers, because he knows that obedience above all else, and sometimes alone, is the saving discipline in war.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

"If, at their common work, one man slay another unwilfully, let the tree be given to the kindred, and let them have it off the land within thirty nights.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

She’s an underhand little thing: I never saw a girl of her age with so much cover.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

In less than three-quarters of an hour our fleet train was rolling into the Gare du Nord at Brussels; but Madame was in a hurry, so we became for the time birds of passage only and in another hour were already entrained again and speeding toward the steaming dinner that she assured us la Tante Bosa had awaiting us.
— from The Spell of Flanders An Outline of the History, Legends and Art of Belgium's Famous Northern Provinces by Edward Neville Vose

We sing the beautiful, the radiant life That shone amongst us like the quiet moon, A fine exception in this sphere of strife, Whose time went by us like a hallowed tune.
— from The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall

Parboil and blanch the sweetbreads, as usual; let them get perfectly cold; cut lengthwise into slices about a quarter of an inch thick.
— from Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea by Marion Harland

In and out of the bluish ice caves he flits and sings, and his singing heard from above is sweet and uncanny like the Nixie's chord.
— from The Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin

Yet for a little in that vacancy Of silence and unshadowing light they stood, Those long-divided, speechless.
— from Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Maurice Hewlett

I often think that we speak an unknown language to these country people."
— from Leslie's Loyalty by Charles Garvice

There is great variation in the color, and young spiders are usually lighter than adults.
— from The Common Spiders of the United States by J. H. (James Henry) Emerton

The Bolobo people do not object so much to the regular food tax, just because this is regular, and they can prepare and regularly meet it, as to the sudden and unexpected labour tasks, such as canoe journeys, or this more onerous pier building.
— from Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma Respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo [and Further Correspondence] by Roger Casement