Hence to the forest will I go: Away, my lord, and be not slow.” Sumantra, urged to utmost speed, Yoked to the car each generous steed, And then, with hand to hand applied, He came before the chief and cried: “Hail, Prince, whom mighty arms adorn, Hail, bravest of the chariot-borne!
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

In this uncertainty the unhappy soul rejoiceth, and therein prepares an excuse to shield itself, glad that it appeareth not what sufficeth for the moderation of health, that under the cloak of health, it may disguise the matter of gratification.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

For even if we have the sensation of being always enveloped in, surrounded by our own soul, still it does not seem a fixed and immovable prison; rather do we seem to be borne away with it, and perpetually struggling to pass beyond it, to break out into the world, with a perpetual discouragement as we hear endlessly, all around us, that unvarying sound which is no echo from without, but the resonance of a vibration from within.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

In America, democracy is swayed by its own free propensities; its course is natural and its activity is unrestrained; the United States consequently afford the most favorable opportunity of studying its real character.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

As I have said, until this unexpected state of affairs happened, Mobile had been looked upon as the objective point of Sherman's army.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

If an Ethnographer succeeded in making the problem clear to an intelligent informant (and I have tried and succeeded in doing this) the native would simply state: “We all know that the stories about Tudava, about Kudayuri, about Tokosikuna, are lili’u ; our fathers, our kadada (our maternal uncles) told us so; and we always hear these tales; we know them well; we know that there are no other tales besides them, which are lili’u .
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Independent of those which relate to the structure of the government, we find the following: Article 1, section 3, clause 7—"Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States; but the party convicted shall, nevertheless, be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment, and punishment according to law."
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Unfold to us some warlike resistance.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Upon this upper strainer pour boiling water, and continue to do so gently; until it bubbles up through the strainer: then shut the cover of the machine close down, place it near the fire, and so soon as the water has drained through the coffee, repeat the operation until the whole intended quantity be passed.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Again elevate your eye, and a still more aërial flight of stairs is beheld, and again is poor Piranesi busy on his aspiring labours; and so on, until the unfinished stairs and Piranesi both are lost in the upper gloom of the hall.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

It is not enough to depend upon the influence of the words to which the music is set, for they, being simultaneous with the music, do not have time or opportunity to act with full force upon the understanding; since the action of music upon the emotion is more immediate and vivid than that of words upon the intellect, the latter is often unregarded in the stress of musical excitement.
— from Music in the History of the Western Church With an Introduction on Religious Music Among Primitive and Ancient Peoples by Edward Dickinson

So well is this coming to be known by the criminal classes of Europe that it is perfectly well understood here that they look upon the United States as a "happy hunting-ground," and more and more seek it, to the detriment of our country and of all that we hold most dear in it.
— from Tramping with Tramps: Studies and Sketches of Vagabond Life by Josiah Flynt

His superb valor and unfaltering devotion to duty throughout reflect the highest credit upon himself and upon the United States Naval Service.
— from Breaching the Marianas: The Battle for Saipan by John C. Chapin

What a grief it was to me when I heard that you had given up the university some months ago, for want of means to keep yourself and that you had lost your lessons and your other work!
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Autocracy vs. Unionism This unprecedented struggle was really a test of strength between industrial autocracy and militant unionism.
— from The Centralia Conspiracy by Ralph Chaplin

It was communicated by Sir Richard Pakenham to Mr. Upshur, the United States Secretary of State, on the 26th day of February, 1844—a few days before the lamentable death of that gentleman by the bursting of the Princeton gun.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

We both gazed upon the unruffled surface of the water glittering beneath the sun, wondering in which part had been the centre of the original pond.
— from The Closed Book: Concerning the Secret of the Borgias by William Le Queux

My uneasiness, however, prevented me from sleeping, and about midnight I went upon deck.—As I placed my foot upon the upper step of the companion-ladder, I was startled by a loud, humming noise, like that occasioned by the rapid revolution of a mill-wheel, and before I could ascertain its meaning, I found the ship quivering to its centre.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Nor could he understand the unfriendly spirit with which he was received.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders by John Lord

The first two were in oaks, the third in a hornbeam; and all were set upon the upper side of a horizontal bough ("saddled" upon it, as the manuals say), at the junction of an offshoot with the main branch.
— from A Rambler's lease by Bradford Torrey