In chapter ix trance or possession is defined by Myers, in the same list of proofs, as ‘a development of Motor Automatism resulting at last in a substitution of personality’; and this harmonizes with the theory of the control of a living organism by discarnate spirits, and is supported by an overwhelming mass of scientific experiment.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

But then this concerned the boy, of whom the father, in his careless way, was fond and proud; their child had always remained a link, if a slight link, between Tom and Peggy.
— from The Uttermost Farthing by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Some of the pictures that came to her as she sat there were vivid, as real as life itself, and some were as indistinct as a mirage on the far horizon.
— from Hour of Enchantment A Mystery Story for Girls by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

That safer plans, that better designs, that closer compacted forms will arise seems as certain and assured a fact as that those forms now in use arose out of the rude beginnings of the past; for this great factory, both in its machine-tools and in its products, the wheels and rails and locomotives, is a standing proof of the development which goes on in the mind of man when brought constantly to bear upon one subject.
— from The Hills and the Vale by Richard Jefferies

Ida Palliser was fortunate enough to have a bed in the butterfly-room, so called on account of a gaudy wall paper, whereon Camberwell Beauties disported themselves among roses and lilies in a strictly conventional style of art.
— from The Golden Calf by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

If Mary Fitton ever gave any gift of Shakespeare to Lord Herbert, the dramatist should have known that she no longer loved him, had in reality already forgotten him in her new passion; but to paint a woman as remembering a lover, indeed as still loving him, and yet as giving his gift to another, is an offence in art though it may be true to nature.
— from The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story by Frank Harris

that the one are exerted on the one hand on fluids different from those exhaled upon their surfaces, and that on the other they are subject to continual variations and irregularities; whilst the others always take up the fluids exhaled upon their surfaces, and are constant and regular, at least in a state of health.
— from General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Xavier Bichat

I was patiently polite with the Seventh Day Adventist religion, and laid in a supply of postage stamps on Friday evening.
— from The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair

There was a large, old-fashioned wooden gate and a lofty porch of considerable dimensions arched over by a passage running across the first floor from north to south, and affording complete protection from sun and rain and leading into a spacious, open quadrangular courtyard, where carriages and other conveyances used to stand.
— from Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century by Montague Massey