Thus, my lord, under so glorious a patronage, I am emboldened once more to draw my pen, undaunted now and secure; with hopes that you will still prove to me, against the power of detraction, a second Gallic Hercules in learning, prudence, and eloquence; an Alexicacos in virtue, power, and authority; you, of whom I may truly say what the wise monarch Solomon saith of Moses, that great prophet and captain of Israel, Ecclesiast.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

If you have ever aided him in evil, help us now and so atone.”
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

Suddenly he found Sonia beside him; she had come up noiselessly and sat down at his side.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Wider Usefulness through Concentration, and in the Silence found those Secrets of Mental Control and the Inner Key which were immediately going to transform and bring Peace, Power, and Prosperity to the unhappy nations; and so, friends, would they for this precious gem-studded hour forget the Illusions of the Seeming Real, and in the actualization of the deep-lying Veritas pass, along with Mrs. Opal Emerson Mudge, to the Realm Beautiful.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

He did so, and they talked together for some time in their own language, whereof I understood not a syllable, neither could I observe by their countenances, what impression my discourse had made on them.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

The misfortunes we have endured already, and which are facing us now, are so great that it is difficult to imagine anything worse.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Yet, though, during the dance, she uttered not a single word of sense, he straightway fell in love with her, and, being a man accustomed to conquests, attained his end in this case also.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

He had told her the most extraordinary, the most inconceivable, the most unwelcome news; and she could think of nothing else.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

I was fighting for honor and intended to keep on until not a single thing remained to do.
— from True to Himself; Or, Roger Strong's Struggle for Place by Edward Stratemeyer

Wild-flowers too dotted the sides of the lane, and as Tom sat gazing out of the window, drinking in the country sweets, his uncle nodded and smiled.
— from The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by George Manville Fenn

But if, notwithstanding the presence of this indispensable condition, it be permissible to call any sequence unconditionally invariable, then the sequences of night upon day and of day upon night are such sequences, and day and night continue consequently entitled to be styled each other's causes as much under the amended as under the original definition.
— from Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton

After a bath or a thorough rubbing of the body from top to toe, with a wet towel, on an empty stomach, take this exercise: Send a current of holy thought to everyone, on planes seen and unseen, north and south, east and west, engage in meditation—take anyone of the meditation exercises you like.
— from The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga Including the Practices and Exercises of Concentration, both Objective and Subjective, and Active and Passive Mentation, an Elucidation of Maya, Guru Worship, and the Worship of the Terrible, also the Mystery of Will-Force by Mukerji, A. P., swámi

87 Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., 85 Trans-World Airways, 130 TREASURY DEPARTMENT, THE U. S., 41 ; 67 Trenton Trust Co., 131 Triffin, Robert, 17 Trippe, Juan T., 95 ; 170 Triumph in the West , 30 Truman, Harry S., 12 ; 105 ; 118 ; 180 Trust Company of Georgia, 86 Truth About the Foreign Policy Association , 37 ff; 175 Turman, Solon B., 95 TWENTIETH CENTURY FUND, 55 ; 171 U Undeclared War , (Langer-Gleason), 165 UNESCO HOUSE, 143 Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., 90 ff Union Commerce Bank, 92 Union Drawn Steel Co., 92 Union Electric Company of Mo., 91 ; 93 Union Now (Streit), 113 ; 121 Union Now With Britain (Streit), 113 UNION OF EAST AND WEST, 116 UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA, 151 Union Oil Co., of Calif., 95 Union Tank Car Co., 16 UNIONS, 56 ; 100 ; 110 ff; 130 ; 142 United Air Lines, 76 ; 92 ; 127 United American Life Insurance Co., 92 UNITED NATIONS, ADA support of, 147 ; Advertising Council support of, 102 ; Aid to Cuba, 135 ; American Association for, 126 ; CFR support of, 22 ; Charter, creating socialistic alliance, 117 ; Declaration of Human Rights, 108 ; discussed at Soviet-American conference, ii ; discussed in AUC purpose, 119 ; Economic and Social Council, 56 ; IIO support of, 125 ; Korean War, 40 ; organizational meeting, 5 ; population control, 151 ; SANE support of, 148 ; seating Red China, 47 ; step toward world government, 103 ff; 116 ff; SUNFED, 62 ; UN
— from The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot

They would not be married until November, and she would have several months at home first.
— from The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

And this, if it does not unriddle the mystery altogether, may at any rate lift a corner of the veil off those wondrous allegories that have been thrown over Vâch, the most mysterious of all the Brâhmanical Goddesses; she who is termed “the melodious Cow who milked forth sustenance and Water” —the Earth with all her mystic powers; and again she “who yields us nourishment and sustenance” —the physical Earth.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky