We can shape our investigation so as to ascertain whether a part of the assumptions which we have transferred from the neurosis to the taboo, or the conclusions at which we have thereby arrived can be demonstrated directly in the phenomena of taboo.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

A few apathetic faces of judges alone could be dimly discerned.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

15, that ‘When R. Chaninah ben Dosa died, the men of deeds ceased; when R. Jose Ketinta died, the chasidim ceased.’
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Dramas brought to a close or still in progress are foreshadowed by the sight of such actors as these, not the dramas that are played before the footlights and against a background of painted canvas, but dumb dramas of life, frost-bound dramas that sere hearts like fire, dramas that do not end with the actors’ lives.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

There have been famous babes; for example, little Moses, from whose adventure in the bulrushes the Egyptian hierophants of seven centuries before doubtless derived their idle tale of the child Osiris being preserved on a floating lotus leaf.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

On turning the screw the lower blades could be drawn downwards, at the same time separating slightly, while the upper blades diverged also (No. 113,264 Naples Mus.).
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

In 1832 he was present at one of Madame d'Espard's receptions, where every one there joined in slandering the Princesse de Cadignan before Daniel d'Arthez, then violently enamored of her.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

M. le Duc de Chartres became Duc d’Orleans.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

The holiness of a creature may be reduced into nothing, as well as his substance; but the holiness of the Creator cannot be diminished, dimmed, or overshadowed (James i. 17): “He is the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness or shadow of turning.”
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

In a short time several buckets had long pieces of rope attached to them, by which they could be dropped down into the cistern, when the cover was removed.
— from The Young Firemen of Lakeville; Or, Herbert Dare's Pluck by Frank V. Webster

No supplies or stores can be delivered during a move if T. and S. have moved.
— from Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books. by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The four Gallies of Portugal , commanded by Don Diego de Medrana .
— from The Spanish Armada, 1588 The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords Representing the Several Engagements Between the English and Spanish Fleets. by John Pine

E'en after this Marija found no peace, But hated Jelina far more than death, So evermore she pondered how she could Bring dire destruction down upon the maid.
— from The Pobratim: A Slav Novel by P. Jones

He pointed out the evils attendant on a formal definition, and that in a manner which afterwards enlivened the controversy between Dupanloup, Deschamps, and himself.
— from The Pope, the Kings and the People A History of the Movement to Make the Pope Governor of the World by a Universal Reconstruction of Society from the Issue of the Syllabus to the Close of the Vatican Council by William Arthur

“I understand,” he said, “you confess; but a confession made to the judges, a confession made at the last moment, extorted when the crime cannot be denied, diminishes not the punishment inflicted on the guilty!”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas