Dr. Piderit [903] who has published remarks to the same effect, adds that stammerers generally frown in speaking, and that a man in doing even so trifling a thing as pulling on a boot, frowns if he finds it too tight.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Elsie was breathing softly by my side, and my incredulous, disappointed eyes saw only the reflection on the ceiling, like two great tears of light, and I slept no more until the morning.
— from A Village Ophelia and Other Stories by Anne Reeve Aldrich

How do you suppose that a mere idle dream, even supposing you to have one on the subject, could furnish you with the key?
— from The Wonderful Story of Ravalette by Paschal Beverly Randolph

As this act of the mind lies at the root of all mental improvement, during every stage of the pupil's education, it becomes a matter of considerable importance, that its nature, and mode of operation, should be thoroughly understood.
— from A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education by James Gall

Around him ranged, now close and now remote, Prominent or obscure to meet the needs O' the mage and master, I detect each shape Subsidiary i' the scene nor loathed the less, All alike colored, all descried akin
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning