To be sure, it does not always attempt this; in the case of the symptoms of compulsion neurosis it must admit that it is being opposed by something alien, which it can resist only with difficulty.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Even this, however, was not quite the end; for a summer of comparative rest, or what Dickens considered rest, seemed so far to have set him up that he gave a final series of twelve readings in London between the 11th of January and 15th of March, 1870, thus bringing to its real conclusion an enterprise by which, at whatever cost to himself, he had made a sum of about £45,000.
— from Life of Charles Dickens by Marzials, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), Sir

This idea, however, was unspoken, and Olive Chancellor's uttered words, as the carriage rolled on, were different.
— from The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) by Henry James

You told me," she continued, turning to Langford, "to give it to nobody but one on whom I could implicitly rely, and I have thought over all the persons I know--over all the persons I have ever known, and cannot remember one who deserves such a name."
— from The Robber, A Tale. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

In 1881, when not yet fourteen years of age, Owen Jones was sent to the Central Foundation School in Cowper Street, City Road, of which Dr. Wormell was head master.
— from Rock-climbing in the English Lake District Third Edition by Owen Glynne Jones

It is upon that debatable ground that superstition finds its strongest foothold, and, like the ivy clinging round old walls, defies every attempt to uproot it.
— from The Myths and Fables of To-Day by Samuel Adams Drake

When asked the reason of this change, his informant, an honest, rough-looking citizen, replied: “Oh, we didn’t reëlect Mr. A., because he is a fetheral .”
— from Words; Their Use and Abuse by William Mathews