Loud or silent repetition of inspiring words has been found effective in Coueism and similar systems of psychotherapy; the secret lies in the stepping-up of the mind's vibratory rate.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

These first settlers located in the southern half of Clinton Township, but others soon came who settled still farther south, so that the settlement soon came to include a portion of the Township of Manchester in Boone County, Illinois.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

that at that time (1869) Kittil Lohner and his brother Halvor Nilson Lohner, from Hjertdal, Telemarken, and the family of Gisle Danielson, from Skjold, were still living in the settlement.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Ino rejoicing at this, Juno, in her hatred and indignation, sends one of the Furies to her, who causes her to be struck with insanity, on which she leaps into the sea, with her son Melicerta in her arms; but by the intercession of Venus, they become sea Deities, and their Sidonian attendants, who are bewailing them as dead, are changed into rocks.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

You had no right to contradict my orders secretly, and treat me as if I were a fool," said Lydgate, in the same tone as before.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

We must believe that nothing but the excellence of old acts of will can have preserved them so long: if the Sovereign had not recognised them as throughout salutary, it would have revoked them a thousand times.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

At last Thorleif the Wise succeeded, by his prudence, in curing him of his delusion by accosting him thus:—"It is nowise wonderful, king, that thou grievest over so beautiful and noble a wife, and bestowest costly coverlets and beds of down on her corpse, as she desired; but these honours fall short of what is due, as she still lies in the same clothes.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

I have said this was the worst thing possible for me, for helpless as she looked in this situation, with the canvas cracking like cannon and the blocks trundling and banging on the deck, she still continued to run away from me, not only with the speed of the current, but by the whole amount of her leeway, which was naturally great.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Then he fell upon his mountain of mail and memoranda, demands for this charity and that patriotic subscription, and Mary began a careful explanation of affairs and they sat talking and arguing until the general superintendent looked in to suggest that the shop might like to have Mr. O’Valley say hello.
— from The Gorgeous Girl by Nalbro Bartley

Heretofore this species has been known only from a few specimens from scattered localities in the Sierra Madre Occidental in [Pg 67] southwestern Jalisco and Sinaloa.
— from The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacán, México by William Edward Duellman

Some 45,000 Yugoslavs, mostly Serbs, lived in the southern Banat around the Iron Gate.
— from Area Handbook for Romania by Eugene K. Keefe

I thought you had gone," she said, looking up, and observing that personage still lingering in the shade of a tulip-tree near the veranda.
— from Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The first thing she did, Dr Evans tells us, was to seek comfort in a Bible that, by chance as she supposed, lay in the small top room given to this incognita .
— from Isle of Wight by A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope) Moncrieff

While the political views of this gentleman differed from those of the stranger from Massachusetts, it formed no barrier to their social intercourse, and did not make him forget to exhibit the warm feelings of hospitality which so largely influence the Southerner.
— from Voyage of the Paper Canoe A Geographical Journey of 2500 miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, during the years 1874-5. by Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop

These constantly recurring, unsolvable problems, which cloud faith and make life terrible, instead of peaceful and sweet; which lead us sometimes to look upon the little child, so dear to us, with such cowardly fear, that it would be a relief to lay it, then and there, in the arms of the Good Shepherd, lest it , too, stray away from the fold.
— from Caper-Sauce: A Volume of Chit-Chat about Men, Women, and Things. by Fanny Fern

According to your metaphor, I shall live in the street, and it matters very much to me what I find there.”
— from The Longest Journey by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

“What has happened?” exclaimed several voices, as old Tom’s body was seen lying in the stern-sheets.
— from Happy Jack, and Other Tales of the Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston