The problem as to whether memory can be explained as habit or association requires to be considered afresh in connection with the causes of our remembering something.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

After defining his executive duties in connection with the annuity distributions, the keeping of accounts and the compiling of official reports, Secretary Knox continues— A due performance of your duty will probably require the exercise of all your patience and fortitude and all your knowledge of the human character.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Mrs Quilp too was the partner of young Trent, and for every look that passed between them, and every word they spoke, and every card they played, the dwarf had eyes and ears; not occupied alone with what was passing above the table, but with signals that might be exchanging beneath it, which he laid all kinds of traps to detect; besides often treading on his wife’s toes to see whether she cried out or remained silent under the infliction, in which latter case it would have been quite clear that Trent had been treading on her toes before.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

This was the first company of our regiment sent to the seat of war, and it embarked on the brig Hayne.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

In the country a house wedding includes one in a garden, with a wedding procession under the trees, and tables out on the lawn—a perfect plan for California or other rainless States, but difficult to arrange on the Atlantic seaboard where rain is too likely to spoil everything.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Swann would repair to it as to a conception of love and happiness, of which at once he knew as well in what respects it was peculiar as he would know of the Princesse de Clèves , or of René , should either of those titles occur to him.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Am I content, then, that the general interior chyle of our republic should be supplied and nourish'd by wholesale from foreign and antagonistic sources such as these?
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

"To come out of Ransom Surbeck's pool room and think things like that," he whispered.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

The best castor oil ( COLD-DRAWN CASTOR OIL ; OLEUM RICINI SINE IGNE )
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

We were surrounded by the camps of other regiments, some arriving and some departing almost daily.
— from Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by George T. (George Thomas) Stevens

And We do hereby also strictly Require and Command all Our Governours, Deputy-Governours, Admirals, Vice-Admirals, Generals, Judges of Our Courts of Admiralty, Commanders of Our Forts and Castles, Captains of Our Royal Ships, Justices of the Peace, Provost-Marshals, Marshals, Comptrollers, Collectors of Our Customs, Wayters, Searchers, and all other Our Officers and Ministers Civil and Military, by Sea or Land, in every of Our said Americ
— from British Royal Proclamations Relating to America, 1603-1783 by Great Britain. Sovereign

It is humiliating to think that the people of this Monarchy send at the rate of twenty-six letters for each person, while the citizens of our Republic send only at the rate of twelve for each person.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 18 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Sutton's force was reported to be moving up along the Waterkloof valley towards its head, and to cover its advance Colonel Fordyce immediately placed his brigade in position on the ridge, and extending four companies of our regiment, supported by two of the 12th, advanced towards the belt of bush intersecting the enemy's position, which we entered without much opposition, and occupied for the next six hours.
— from Campaigning in Kaffirland; Or, Scenes and Adventures in the Kaffir War of 1851-52 by William Ross King

Did the uninstructed and stammering childhood of our race, separate, in thought, the Supernatural from surrounding nature?
— from The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson

Miss Woodville has been carried off, or, rather, she has followed her abductor of her own free will.
— from Garrick's Pupil by Augustin Filon

There were three cars pacing us, cutting off our retreat Southward.
— from Highways in Hiding by George O. (George Oliver) Smith

Waving curtains of opaque rain, swinging from the overburdened clouds, dropped down upon the surface of the river.
— from By Water to the Columbian Exposition by Johanna Sara Wisthaler