Women who had wildly adored him, and for his sake had braved all social censure and set convention at defiance, were seen to grow pallid with shame or horror if Dorian Gray entered the room.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

But if we proceed analytically—the “I think” as a proposition containing in itself an existence as given, consequently modality being the principle—and dissect this proposition, in order to ascertain its content, and discover whether and how this Ego determines its existence in time and space without the aid of anything external; the propositions of rationalistic psychology would not begin with the conception of a thinking being, but with a reality, and the properties of a thinking being in general would be deduced from the mode in which this reality is cogitated, after everything empirical had been abstracted; as is shown in the following table: 1 I think, 2 3 as Subject, as simple Subject, 4 as identical Subject, in every state of my thought.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Supposing that someone has often flown in his dreams, and that at last, as soon as he dreams, he is conscious of the power and art of flying as his privilege and his peculiarly enviable happiness; such a person, who believes that on the slightest impulse, he can actualize all sorts of curves and angles, who knows the sensation of a certain divine levity, an "upwards" without effort or constraint, a "downwards" without descending or lowering—without TROUBLE!—how could the man with such dream-experiences and dream-habits fail to find "happiness" differently coloured and defined, even in his waking hours!
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

They hung back lest he have at command a dreadful weapon.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

But this disgusting work was the work of freemen, high-spirited and energetic fellows, who feared neither man nor wild beast, and trusted to their own strong arms to conquer all difficulties, while they could discern the light of freedom and independence glimmering through the dark woods before them.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Still, change was change, and differences were differences, and much as he felt himself drawn toward his future daughter-in-law, it was tempting to seize this last chance of being alone with his boy.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Of the elder ones, Neokles was bitten by a horse and died while still a child, and Diokles was adopted by his grandfather Lysander.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

War, peace, treaties, alliances, he contracted and dissolved with whomsoever he pleased, without the sanction of the people and senate.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

On the other hand, by taking the land route, through the counties adjoining Delaware, we should be subjected to all manner of interruptions, and many very disagreeable questions, which might give us serious trouble.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

I was not asleep; I was not awake; I comprehended, I felt, I reasoned with the utmost clearness and depth, with extraordinary energy and intellectual pleasure, with a singular intoxication arising from this separation of my mental faculties.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

"Now, Ridgwell," said the Lion, "take Christine and dance with her.
— from The Tale of Lal A Fantasy by Raymond Paton

In the political turmoil of that period, when new forces were awakening to their power and feudalism, conservatism, Cobdenism, and democracy were all contending for supremacy, there were three predominating currents of thought.
— from Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel Peter Orth

Clapperton and Dangle were not superlatively clever boys; but, whether by chance or design, they certainly hit upon an admirable method for bringing the matter to a crisis.
— from The Cock-House at Fellsgarth by Talbot Baines Reed

She scrunch herself clus agin de wall fo' to let him pahs, an' he go by like de bird an' nebber see her.
— from Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 by Various

“Come and dine with me at the Pen to-night.
— from A Middy in Command: A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Harry Collingwood

[208] According to the treaty held at St. Louis in 1832, with the Kickapoo chiefs, a deputation was to visit the new territory in Kansas and agree to the lands chosen.
— from Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 1 by Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von

The circumstances of violence and circumvention, under which the depredations were committed, are detailed with much vehemence, and at considerable length.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. II by John Colin Dunlop

She had been singularly changed to him during the whole period of her father's illness; had shunned him by every means in her power; had been cold and distant when they were brought into contact.
— from Mildred Arkell: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Wood, Henry, Mrs.