Intellect itself was considered subordinate to ethical emotion.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

"Can you find that out?" "Why, one can see that easily enough," said the other.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

She was hungry,—one could see that easily enough,—and not drunk, as most of her companions would have been found at this hour.
— from Life in the Iron-Mills; Or, The Korl Woman by Rebecca Harding Davis

I took post near a plantation of one Trible, near Markham's, and frequently reconnoitred the whole line, and could see the enemy engaged in like manner, on the east aide of Big Black; but he never attempted actually to cross over, except with some cavalry, just above Bear Creek, which was easily driven back.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Javert committed all these blunders, and nonetheless was one of the cleverest and most correct spies that ever existed.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The pictures were in a dark box which the spark from time to time lighted up; and, to keep the eyes from wandering betweenwhiles, a pin-hole was pricked through the middle of each picture, through which the light of the room came, so that each eye had presented to it during the dark intervals a single bright point.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

It is by taking advantage of such epochs, when the interest of the natives is centred round a certain subject, that ethnographic evidence can be collected in the easiest and most reliable manner.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

But liberty is not the chief and constant object of their desires; equality is their idol: they make rapid and sudden efforts to obtain liberty, and if they miss their aim resign themselves to their disappointment; but nothing can satisfy them except equality, and rather than lose it they resolve to perish.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

[80] Hentzner, who wrote at the conclusion of the sixteenth century, says, "the English excel in dancing and music, for they are active and lively."
— from The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Joseph Strutt

“Where necessity produces bondage, where law brings fraud and crime, and outer compulsion causes slavery, there every effect of education is destroyed.
— from Froebel as a pioneer in modern psychology by E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray

If she gazed at the star-studded canopy of heaven, or bent her head over the frowning precipices by which she was every where surrounded, she felt the absence of him with whom she could share the enthusiasm excited by the contemplation of the one, and to whom she could impart the mingled terror and admiration produced by the dizzying depths of the other.
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete) by Major (John) Richardson

I can see that Ebn Ezra has told the Saadat things that make him want to get away to Cairo as soon as possible.
— from The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 2 by Gilbert Parker

cit. supra ) have published charts showing the elaborately erratic course pursued by a polyp in moving from one point to another and the effect of light as regards its movements.
— from Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale

There I shall grow sweet williams and, if I can stand the extra excitement, perhaps keep a pig.
— from With Rimington by L. March (Lisle March) Phillipps

During the winter of 1746-'47 these men devoted as much of their time as they could spare to electrical experiments.
— from True to His Home: A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin by Hezekiah Butterworth

Bright burnt the pale blue edges for the sunrise drew anear, And the rims of the Shield-burg glittered, and the east was exceeding clear: So the eager edges he setteth to the Dwarf-wrought battle-coat Where the hammered ring-knit collar constraineth the woman's throat; But the sharp Wrath biteth and rendeth, and before it fail the rings, And, lo, the gleam of the linen, and the light of golden things: Then he driveth the blue steel onward, and through the skirt, and out, Till nought but the rippling linen is wrapping her about; Then he deems her breath comes quicker and her breast begins to heave, So he turns about the War-Flame and rends down either sleeve,
— from The Story of Sigurd the Volsung by William Morris

With these exceptions I 159 was in the observer's chair several times each evening.
— from Mars and Its Mystery by Edward Sylvester Morse