[162] Or in this other passage: "We can trace the development of a nervous system and correlate with it the parallel phenomena of sensation and thought.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

There are three species of fern in this neighbourhood the root one of which the natves eat; this grows very abundant in the open uplands and praries where the latter are not sandy and consist of deep loose rich black lome.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

It will be a bitter pill to her; that is, like other bitter pills, it will have two moments' ill flavour, and then be swallowed and forgotten; for I am not such a coxcomb as to suppose her feelings more lasting than other women's, though I was the object of them.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

In Seville was he born, a pleasant city, Famous for oranges and women—he Who has not seen it will be much to pity, So says the proverb—and I quite agree; Of all the Spanish towns is none more pretty, Cadiz perhaps—but that you soon may see; Don Juan's parents lived beside the river, A noble stream, and call'd the Guadalquivir.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

At Nördlingen strangers are caught with straw ropes and tied up in a sheaf till they pay a forfeit.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Out of the fermentation which association breeds, a new something ( autre chose ) is produced, an opinion and sentiment, in other words, that is not the sum of, and not like, the sentiments and opinions of the individuals from which it is derived.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

"I never will surrender to a nigger," said a Confederate officer, when a colored soldier chased and caught him.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

On the Beach at Night On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

In the hero's erratic march from poverty in the first act, to wealth and triumph in the final one, in which he forgives all the enemies that he has left, he was assisted by the gallery, which applauded his generous and noble sentiments and confounded the speeches of his opponents by making irrelevant but very sharp remarks.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

Every day the fair, growing thing put forth some fresh beauty—a leaf, a bud, a new shoot, and constantly awakened fresh enjoyment in its possessors.
— from The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The difficulty of adopting a new system arises chiefly from the absolute importance of any system and the unconscious use of that to which people are already accustomed, together with its application in a thousand unthought of ways to every tool and every rule.
— from Rural Wealth and Welfare: Economic Principles Illustrated and Applied in Farm Life by Geo. T. (George Thompson) Fairchild

At the present time you two are Assistants of your Chief; the people in the outlying districts are not submissive, and cannot be brought round.
— from Chinese Literature Comprising the Analects of Confucius, the Sayings of Mencius, the Shi-King, the Travels of Fâ-Hien, and the Sorrows of Han by Faxian

Putting forward, as necessary, sums and calculations which a decently taught schoolboy would laugh at.
— from Men and Measures by Edward Nicholson

In that village there was a social equality which, if not absolute, was as nearly so as can ever be in a competitive civilization; and I could have suffered no slight in the general esteem for giving up a profession and going back to a trade; if I was despised at all it was because I had thrown away the chance of material advancement; I dare say some people thought I was a fool to do that.
— from My Literary Passions by William Dean Howells

When Strogue translated this to me, I felt some gratifying surprise; for our language is not so wonderfully [Pg 400] mellifluous, or melodious; though our voices are not such a cackle as theirs.
— from Dariel: A Romance of Surrey by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

And yet there is absolutely nothing so absolutely certain as death, before which every pretence, every ignoble aspiration, every sordid ambition, stands naked and futile and, in some other world possibly, ashamed.
— from The Champagne Standard by Lane, John, Mrs.

When Sir William Herschel, directing his great reflector to various nebulous spots, found them resolvable into clusters of stars, he inferred, and for a time maintained, that all nebulous spots are clusters of stars exceedingly remote from us.
— from Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions by Herbert Spencer

[Pg 260] that we two are spies, and I tell you there are no spies, and can be no spies on this island.”
— from A Prince of Good Fellows by Robert Barr