So realistic was the sight that I awoke at once; the room was strangely enveloped in dazzling light.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

For the impulse to be restrained is so powerful and so sensitive to stimulants of all kinds, that, in order that the sentiment of purity may adequately perform its protective function, it is required to be very keen and vivid; and the aversion to impurity must extend far beyond the acts that primarily need to be prohibited, and include in its scope everything (in dress, language, social customs, etc.) which may tend to excite lascivious ideas.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Pour réaliser ce document balzacien, nous avons travaillé dans une salle entièrement informatisée de l'Université Gakushuin (Tokyo)
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

—Hace un cuarto de siglo ese instrumento de labranza fué substituido por el arado de acero, tirado por caballos, a fin de obtener un trabajo más rápido.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

D. Bonifacio.—Lo que necesito hoy es que tú, que sabes tanto y que por tanto saber eres intérprete de la plaza, me traduzcas al español este documento.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

42-† Motolinia, Ritos Antiguos, Sacrificios e Idolatrias de los Indios de la Nueva España , p. 340 (in Coleccion de Documentos ineditos para la Historia de España ).
— from Nagualism: A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

I predicted at the time of my first visit to Senafe, early in December last, what must be the inevitable result of the course pursued to the men caught pillaging.
— from The March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Human laws have no sanction except in divine law, and no man has a right to command his fellow-men, except within the limits of natural and of divine law.
— from The Religious Persecution in France 1900-1906 by J. Napier (Jane Napier) Brodhead

David H. Morris, making a slight error in dates, leaves this account, which gives, as the first day’s march of the militia, four miles: “On the 29th of September, we took up our march for the Maumee Villages, near where Fort Wayne now stands, and proceeded four miles.”
— from Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin by Archer Butler Hulbert