Messrs. Bernheim and Pitres have also proved, by observations too complicated to be given in this spot, that the hysterical blindness is no real blindness at all.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

I am a happy and contented mortal, but a poor historian.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Dean, by ill or happy hap, Came home; and Wolf burst in before, And put his nose upon her lap.
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

Bicarat and Porthos had just made counterhits.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

In the greatest heat of action the bravest of their youth, who have devoted themselves to that service, single out the general of their enemies, set on him either openly or by ambuscade; pursue him everywhere, and when spent and wearied out, are relieved by others, who never give over the pursuit, either attacking him with close weapons when they can get near him, or with those which wound at a distance, when others get in between them.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

To complete it was his most earnest desire; but it was not his intention that it should be published during his life; and if I tried to persuade him to alter that intention, he often answered, half in jest, but also, perhaps, half in a foreboding of early death: "Thou shalt publish it."
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Pittacus was the author of some laws, but never drew up any form of government; one of which was this, that if a drunken man beat any person he should be punished more than if he did it when sober; for as people are more apt to be abusive when drunk than sober, he paid no consideration to the excuse which drunkenness might claim, but regarded only the common benefit.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

543 The God of the Christians is a God who makes the soul feel that He is her only good, that her only rest is in Him, that her [Pg 146] only delight is in loving Him; and who makes her at the same time abhor the obstacles which keep her back, and prevent her from loving God with all her strength.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

“He impressed me as being a perfectly honest man.”
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

They made a box and placed her in it.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

All such papers passed through my hands in transmission to the historian, though now I do not quite know why they need have done so; but perhaps he was willing to give me the pleasure of being a partner, however humble, in the enterprise.
— from Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship by William Dean Howells

The Count proved to be a particularly handsome man, while his wife was more of a cultured gipsy, whose talent for painting was evidenced in striking fashion by the gigantic copies of Van Dyck resplendent on the walls.
— from My Life — Volume 2 by Richard Wagner

The lectures appear to have been illustrated by a plate having two figures of a simple apparatus used to demonstrate the action of a spring and two unequal weights; also an inflexible ruler suspended between two unequal balls—with both he experimented before his auditors; but the engraving is wanting in the edition now used.
— from Perpetual Motion by Percy Verance

“Take him below and put him in irons,” cried Sammy.
— from The Great Stone of Sardis by Frank Richard Stockton

During the first half of the sixth century, the Sclavonians invaded the east, “spread from the suburbs of Constantinople to the Ionian Gulf, destroyed thirty-two [pg 093] cities or castles, razed Potidæa, which Athens had built, and Philip had besieged, and repassed the Danube, dragging at their horses' heels one hundred and twenty thousand of the subjects of Justinian.” — Gibbon.
— from A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Sylvester Bliss

This enterprise was but a prelude, however, to the great undertaking which had now been thoroughly matured.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585c by John Lothrop Motley

Ostermore's whole life has been a punishment; his end will be a punishment.
— from The Lion's Skin by Rafael Sabatini

Since her illness, a basin and pitcher had been brought into her room, so the washing at the spout was ended for the present; and, though the basin had no place but a chair, and the pitcher must stand on the floor, Ellen thought herself too happy.
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

So he seems to have been a pretty honest old burglar after all.
— from Mollie and the Unwiseman Abroad by John Kendrick Bangs

From the very beginning, Aunt Peace had taught Iris the principles of dainty housewifery.
— from The Master's Violin by Myrtle Reed