Suddenly a deep flush came over his face, and he was about to speak impetuously, when he seemed checked again by some inward shock, that sent the flush back and made him tremble.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

It is observable, that where the objects of contrary passions are presented at once, beside the encrease of the predominant passion (which has been already explained, and commonly arises at their first shock or rencounter) it sometimes happens, that both the passions exist successively, and by short intervals; sometimes, that they destroy each other, and neither of them takes place; and sometimes that both of them remain united in the mind.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The memory containeth also reasons and laws innumerable of numbers and dimensions, none of which hath any bodily sense impressed; seeing they have neither colour, nor sound, nor taste, nor smell, nor touch.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The Baganda of Central Africa believe so strongly in the intimate relation between the intercourse of the sexes and the fertility of the ground that among them a barren wife is generally sent away, because she is supposed to prevent her husband’s garden from bearing fruit.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

“Must get a bit stale, I should think,” he said.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

In short, as Camilla is the essence of all beauty, so is she the treasure-house where purity dwells, and gentleness and modesty abide with all the virtues that can confer praise, honour, and happiness upon a woman.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Considering how largely Asmodeus, as ‘fine gentleman,’ entered into the composition of Mephistopheles, and how he flew from Nineveh to Egypt (Tobit) to avoid a bad smell, it seems the irony of mythology that he should turn up in Europe as a mephitic spirit.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

If then thou carry't, and brave soules in shades That have dyde manly, which will seeke of me Some newes from earth, they shall get none but this, That thou art brave and noble.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

[Pg 88] sent his card for a pass, Bob did not know, but after scrutinizing the faces of the various men in the office, he selected one who seemed kind and pleasant, and was making his way toward him, when he was confronted by a boy several inches smaller than he was, clad in a green uniform trimmed with gold braid, who demanded insolently: "Here, you!
— from Bob Chester's Grit; Or, From Ranch to Riches by Frank V. Webster

It's a burning shame, I say, that such a smoky-head lazzaroni should be tolerated, when good-looking chaps like you and I, colonel, are around and unprovided for, ain't it?"
— from Mark Gildersleeve: A Novel by John S. Sauzade

And in fact Brunner showed that gaseous hydrogen displaces platinum and palladium from the aqueous solutions of their chlorine compounds, but not gold, and Beketoff succeeded in showing that silver and mercury, under a considerable pressure, are separated from the solutions of certain of their compounds by means of hydrogen.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

“She may soften afterwards, but she is sure to be hard at first,” Mary said to herself, “and, dear mother,” she went on, aloud, “the less notice we seem to take of his going, to the others, the better, don’t you think?
— from Hathercourt by Mrs. Molesworth

Like a beautiful song in some tragic and gloomy opera, a regret of the God who created the hopeless forest, sheltered by the great n’sambya trees, they lie; pools of shadowy and tranquil water, broken by reflections of branches and mirroring speargrass ten feet high and fanlike fern fronds.
— from The Pools of Silence by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

Vane had said in Parliament, "Why should the labours of any be suppressed, if sober, though never so different?
— from The Beginnings of New England Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty by John Fiske

It might almost be said, in seeing the serpent thus forced to slacken its flexible folds, and forego its venomous bites, that it drove away, by its example, other serpents from Byzantium, and exhorted them to conceal themselves in their holes.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 3 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

Nature ruthlessly tears up her replicas age after age, but she is slow to destroy the plates.
— from Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote

In man memory is doubtless less the slave of action, but still it sticks to it.
— from Dreams by Henri Bergson