If any single quality or constituent, a, of such an object, have previously been known by us isolatedly, or have in any other manner already become an object of separate acquaintance on our part, so that we have an image of it, distinct or vague, in our mind, disconnected with bcd, then that constituent a may be analyzed out from the total impression .
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

M. Dubois observes, "The Prana, or principle of life, of the Hindoos is the breath of life by which the Creator (Brahma) animates the clay, and man became a living soul."
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

After some helpless casting about, Mike brightened and began again:— “He is dressed like a 'spectable pieman.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

I followed speedily, I hardly knew why; but when the man saw me draw near, he aimed a gun, which he carried, at my body and fired.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Up by candlelight again, and wrote the greatest part of my business fair, and then to the office, and so home to dinner, and after dinner up and made an end of my fair writing it, and that being done, set two entering while to my Lord Bruncker’s, and there find Sir J. Minnes and all his company, and Mr. Boreman and Mrs. Turner, but, above all, my dear Mrs. Knipp, with whom I sang, and in perfect pleasure I was to hear her sing, and especially her little Scotch song of “Barbary Allen;”
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Aunt Glegg always spoke to them in this loud, emphatic way, as if she considered them deaf, or perhaps rather idiotic; it was a means, she thought, of making them feel that they were accountable creatures, and might be a salutary check on naughty tendencies.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

So to the office till noon, busy, and then (which I think I have not done three times in my life) left the board upon occasion of a letter of Sir W. Coventry, and meeting Balty at my house I took him with me by water, and to the Duke of Albemarle to give him an account of the business, which was the escaping of some soldiers for the manning of a few ships now going out with Harman to the West Indies, which is a sad consideration that at the very beginning of the year and few ships abroad we should be in such want of men that they do hide themselves, and swear they will not go to be killed and have no pay.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Here was a middle-class paradise, kindergarten and model schools, lectures and classes and music, bicycling and swimming, and culture and kindness
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The whole matter was finally disposed of by being forwarded to the War Department at Washington by General Otis on July 13, 1899, some six months after the occurrences alleged, with the remark that he (General Otis) “doubted the wisdom of a court-martial” of the soldier who had made the charge against Major Bishop, “as it would give the insurgent authorities a knowledge of what was taking place, and they would assert positively that our troops practised inhumanities, whether the [ 201 ] charges could be proven or not” and that they would use the incident “as an excuse to defend their own barbarities.”
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

and she understood, as never before, that any class which is compelled to be legislated for by another class always must be at a disadvantage.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

It’s taking a long chance and may be a rotten sort of thing to do, but I’ve simply got to make good.”
— from The Boy Inventors' Flying Ship by Richard Bonner

And then there is crowding around and a great deal of unnecessary kissing done, and Emily and Miss Jerusha are crying, and Mr. Curtis and Mr. Barebones, and the rest are shaking hands and calling her "Mrs. Wildair," and then, with a shock and a thrill, Georgia realizes she is married.
— from The Actress' Daughter: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

And as he spake I deemed that he was not like a child any more, but a little, little old man, white-haired and wrinkle-faced, but without a beard, and his hair shone like glass.
— from The Sundering Flood by William Morris

Or, shall it not rather be appropriated to the improvements of roads, canals, rivers, education, and other great foundations of prosperity and union, under the powers which Congress may already possess, or such amendment of the constitution as may be approved by the States?
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Nothing came any more but annoyances, trouble, and thinking of trouble.
— from The Man from the Bitter Roots by Caroline Lockhart

Cannot a man be allowed to doze in peace?
— from Mr. Wicker's Window by Carley Dawson

By this rule, two second swarms would contain as many bees as a first one, and four of the third, or one of the second issue, and two of the third, &c.
— from Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by M. (Moses) Quinby

The Turkish government has taken off the ban, the Jew is owned as a citizen and may become a representative in its administration.
— from Christ, Christianity and the Bible by Isaac Massey Haldeman

Officials sent to collect the tax were roughly treated, farmers who paid it were beaten by masked men, and one man who rented his house to a tax collector was captured at midnight by a crowd of disguised vigilants, who carried him into the woods, sheared his hair, tarred, feathered and tied him to a tree.
— from America, Volume 2 (of 6) by Joel Cook