Only such elements as we are acquainted with, and can imagine, separately, can be discriminated within a total [Pg 504] sense-impression .
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

[4074] Nam pol que maxime cavet, is saepe cautor captus est , he that takes most heed, is often circumvented, and overtaken.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“But I am not a father confessor; I shall come and go away; I’ve plenty to do besides looking after them.”
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nugătsa′nĭ—a ridge sloping down to Oconaluftee river, below Cherokee, in Swain county, North Carolina.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

I had often before this said that if the Indians should come, I should choose rather to be killed by them than taken alive, but when it came to the trial my mind changed; their glittering weapons so daunted my spirit, that I chose rather to go along with those (as I may say) ravenous beasts, than that moment to end my days; and that I may the better declare what happened to me during that grievous captivity, I shall particularly speak of the several removes we had up and down the wilderness.
— from Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson

That relieved her mind--she fell asleep; but in the morning, she was wavering again between _yes_ and _no_, and she was dwelling on the thought that she could, if she chose, change her life.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"How can I sleep, curses on it!"
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The following from a French History, is interesting, and needs no comment: it shows clearly the design of its usage first in France:— "La cérémonie du sacre était-elle connue en France avant l'inauguration de Pepin?
— from The Government of God by John Taylor

The whole party had been kept together in a kind of whirlpool, and the Major and Jack had been pulled down head first till, as is the nature of these suctions on the Colorado, it suddenly changed to an upward force and threw them out into the air.
— from A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

If I had not the evidence of my own eyes to the contrary, I should continue to say she was dead; but when I see those pretty eyes watching me, I am forced to halt.
— from The White Rose of Memphis by William C. (Clark) Falkner

And it seems unquestionable, also, that the subsequent interferences of Baron Stockmar, the late Queen’s early tutelage to Lord Melbourne, the circumstances attendant on her happy marriage, the peculiar treatment of Prince Consort by her first ministers, and the long retirement due to private grief, contributed in successive combination towards that invisibility, so to speak, of her royal office, which prevailed, though it did not, however, eventually preclude her very real and valuable exercise of it.
— from Disraeli: A Study in Personality and Ideas by Walter Sichel

I would have telegraphed you, but the case is so complicated, so difficult.
— from Taken Alive by Edward Payson Roe

THE CHANGE OF CLIMATE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA I have just been reading, for the third time, Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast," my sojourn near San Diego for a few months, where so many of the scenes and events he describes took place, having given me a renewed interest in the book.
— from Under the Maples by John Burroughs

Cicely was the practical and Eurydice the intellectual genius; but she was content if she could be the padding on which these jewels occasionally shone.
— from The Second Fiddle by Phyllis Bottome