In respect to our present life Professor Freud holds, as a result of psycho-analysis of thousands of dream subjects, that the latent content of every dream in the adult is directly dependent upon mental processes which frequently reach back to the earliest childhood; and he gives detailed cases in illustration.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz
In that day, the living creatures of earth dwelt in the water, and it was the great age of fishes and other aquatic animals.
— from Joseph Smith as Scientist: A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy by John Andreas Widtsoe
The fifteenth day after his departure from St. Lucar , he came to Gomera , one of the Canaries , on Easter day in the morning.
— from A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 by Knight of Elvas
In speaking of these Marshals one day, Mr. Lincoln said: "They are like a man in Illinois, whose cabin was burned down, and, according to the kindly custom of early days in the West, his neighbors all contributed something to start him again.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln
It involves a principle (that of transfer) which is capable of extensive development in the use of modern magic.
— from More Conjuring: Simple Tricks for Social Gatherings by Hercat
They, not Antony, are like the clouds of evening described in the most glorious of so many glorious passages put long afterwards by Shakespeare into the mouth of his latest Roman hero.
— from A Study of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne
In the previous chapter it will be seen that I have somewhat anticipated the course of events described in this narrative in order to give brief sketches of some of my friends who took part, in various capacities, in the Franco-Prussian war, and incidents arising out of it.
— from The Life Story of an Old Rebel by John Denvir
The average amount standing to the credit of each depositor in the Post Office Banks has for some time ranged between 10 l. and 11 l. , and is not expected to exceed that sum for some time to come.
— from A History of Banks for Savings in Great Britain and Ireland by William Lewins
As a body, in my opinion the clergy of England do in truth act as if their property were impressed with a trust to the utmost extent that can be demanded by those who affect to believe, ignorantly or not, that lying legend of a tripartite or quadripartite division of the tithe by law.
— from Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Convulsed with laughter, the Major could only ejaculate disconnectedly, "I tell you—it is a—curious thing how she—rolls!"
— from Tent Life in Siberia A New Account of an Old Undertaking; Adventures among the Koraks and Other Tribes In Kamchatka and Northern Asia by George Kennan
Now there are many things, of course, that I don't know, but it has been my fate to have a pretty extensive acquaintance with cranks of every description in the United States.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton Jesse Hendrick
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