The same thing happens when the stimulus to be perceived is preceded, at a certain interval, by a single warning: the time is always notably shortened....
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The continental "female" is quite a different being to the insular "female" of the same age and class: I never saw such eyes and brows in England.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

If you shoot your neighbor, you will be committing mere murder; but if you gather twenty or thirty friends, together, tie a red handkerchief around the left arm of each man, announce that you are out to overthrow the government of the United States, and then shoot your neighbor as a counterrevolutionary impediment to the new order of things, you can have the satisfaction of having waged war.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Within, it had been a good deal modernised—some of its best points had lost their purity; but as they saw it from the gardens, a stout grey pile, of the softest, deepest, most weather-fretted hue, rising from a broad, still moat, it affected the young visitor as a castle in a legend.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Then let the public and Africa show duty as a child; it's much more their affair than mine.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Everything must happen indirectly, secretly, and approximately, and if this need is inherited for centuries, it must, as a characteristic, impart a definite expression to the sex.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

The first shot I made among these creatures, I killed a she-goat, which had a little kid by her, which she gave suck to, which grieved me heartily; for when the old one fell, the kid stood stock still by her, till I came and took her up; and not only so, but when I carried the old one with me, upon my shoulders, the kid followed me quite to my enclosure; upon which I laid down the dam, and took the kid in my arms, and carried it over my pale, in hopes to have bred it up tame; but it would not eat; so I was forced to kill it and eat it myself.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

He was as simple as a child in the ordinary and every-day concerns of life, eccentric and singular beyond description, absent-minded to the last degree, and generous to a fault.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Species pulchrituninis hauriuntur oculis, auribus, aut concipiuntur interna mente.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

So it is both a heathen and a Christian idea.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

He was promoted by Peter I and Anne; banished by Elizabeth to Siberia, and recalled by Peter II, after an absence of 20 years, when he appeared at court in the same sheepskin dress which he had worn in his exile.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

As a consequence, it is no disparagement to any one else to say that during her residence there she was intellectually quite the most accomplished woman in Washington.
— from As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Marian Gouverneur

And in a large and complicated school, the endless multiplicity and variety of objects of attention and care, impose a task under which few intellects can long stand.
— from The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott

Now, when the glands of the disc are excited, the exterior tentacles are affected in exactly the same manner: the aggregation always commences in their glands, though these have not been directly excited, but have only received some influence from the disc, as shown by their increased acid secretion.
— from Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin

“Mr. Pritchard, I am a clerk in an estate office.
— from The Tempting of Tavernake by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

No court will admit a complaint in which their performance is demanded.
— from Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Hyacinthe Ringrose

62 The present copy, although apparently cropt, is sound and desirable.
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Also, a complete Index .
— from The Æsculapian Labyrinth Explored; Or, Medical Mystery Illustrated by William Taplin

I returned to the boat, and as I was obliged to move as stealthily as a cat, I could not help, as I approached, hearing Joe say emphatically, "I wunna."
— from The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough

He was part of a machine army, a cog in a mechanism which needed a push to make it move; his actions must be dictated or he could not act; his very thoughts were disciplined and uniformed.
— from Winning a Cause: World War Stories by John G. (John Gilbert) Thompson