The bigots of Nismes even succeeded in procuring an address to be presented to the king, stating that there ought to be in France but one God, one king, and one faith.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

"On the tree called Future do we build our nest: eagles shall bring food in their beaks unto us lonely ones!
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The symptoms then are either the representation of actual experiences to which we may ascribe an influence in the fixation of the libido, or the representation of phantasies of the patient which, of course, can be of no etiological significance.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

After the departure of Madam de Verdelin the fermentation increased, and, notwithstanding the reiterated rescripts of the king, the frequent orders of the council of state, and the cares of the chatelain and magistrates of the place, the people, seriously considering me as antichrist, and perceiving all their clamors to be of no effect, seemed at length determined to proceed to violence; stones were already thrown after me in the roads, but I was however in general at too great a distance to receive any harm from them.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

From the right ventricle arises one large vessel, the pulmonary artery , which soon divides into two branches of nearly equal size, one for the right lung, the other for the left.
— from A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

Always at his post, ready with keen promptitude to decide the crowd of doubtful questions brought for his opinions, accepting responsibilities from which others shrunk,—“My friend, the Minister of Health is in Paris, and I am here,” Thérèse heard, him say one day, in answer to a timid objection from little M. Pinot,—quick to note the first symptom of over-fatigue among the band of nurses; encouraging Sister Annette’s merry little sayings; swift, patient, tender, inflexible, all at once.
— from Unawares: A Story of an Old French Town by Frances Mary Peard

None of the other blacks made any verbal comment on his feelings or opinions, but old Nelse easily saw that Pluto’s ideas outweighed his own with them.
— from The Bondwoman by Marah Ellis Ryan

Here, for a space, he pretended to be impossibly busy over nearly empty shelves.
— from Angela's Business by Henry Sydnor Harrison

A brigade of New England soldiers was the last to leave, and marched out by Decatur Street, led by the band of the 33rd Massachusetts regiment, playing John Brown’s body lies a-mould’ring in his grave
— from The Soul of John Brown by Stephen Graham

—I worked all day at fossils, and was much vexed to find that the powerful heat has brought bubbles in the Canada Balsam of nearly every slide!
— from A Journal from Japan: A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist by Marie Carmichael Stopes