The second point concerns the relating of our point of view to that which regards sensations as caused by stimuli external to the nervous system (or at least to the brain), and distinguishes images as "centrally excited," i.e. due to causes in the brain which cannot be traced back to anything affecting the sense-organs.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

The vases on the stone terrace in the foreground catch the rain all day; and the heavy drops fall—drip, drip, drip—upon the broad flagged pavement, called from old time the Ghost's Walk, all night.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

In vain you dilute milk and use absorbents; whoever swallows milk digests cheese, this rule is without exception; rennet is made from a calf’s stomach.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

SYN: Hanging, resting, contingent, trusting, relying, subject, relative.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

[ Although Herod met Augustus at Aquilei, yet was this accusation of his sons deferred till they came to Rome, as sect.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Should a death occur in a house where there are tame pigeons, all the birds will, it is said, at the time of the funeral, circle thrice round the loft, and leave the locality for ever.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Now this practice of taking human victims from a family of royal descent at Orchomenus is all the more significant because Athamas himself is said to have reigned in the land of Orchomenus even before the time of Minyas, and because over against the city there rises Mount Laphystius, on which, as at Alus in Thessaly, there was a sanctuary of Laphystian Zeus, where, according to tradition, Athamas purposed to sacrifice his two children Phrixus and Helle.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The girl had hardly come to realise the extraordinary thing that she had done when she found herself being measured for all sorts of wearing apparel, and consulted about the arrangements for her honeymoon tour.
— from A Mere Chance: A Novel. Vol. 3 by Ada Cambridge

They waited until he had disappeared round the corner of the house, and then crossed the remaining space of lawn.
— from The Secret House by Edgar Wallace

"You may shoot Fouché to-day," said the old Jacobin, "but to-morrow you will cease to reign.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume V. by Walter Scott

When he had first met Frederick, he had inquired, with as much indifference as he could assume, whether there was any foundation in the newspaper report of his marriage with Miss Seymour; to which his Lordship replied, in a peremptory tone, "Yes, if she will have me;" and immediately changed the conversation in such a manner, that Sedley had not again the courage to renew it.
— from Manners: A Novel, Vol 3 by Madame Panache

They then retraced their steps, carefully examining every bypath and open spot by the road-side, where any ordinary horse could be made to go; but making no discoveries, they concluded to return to the tavern for consultation; for they grew more and more puzzled to know what to make of the prisoner, or how to account for his mysterious escape, some affirming “he must have been in league with the devil, as no horse, in a natural state, could have leaped that barricade, or have gone off so like a streak of lightning after he was over it; and his strange doings with the pony, when he first met her, and the bluish appearance that attended him along the road as he went off, with such unnatural swiftness,” were cited in confirmation.
— from The Rangers; or, The Tory's Daughter A Tale Illustrative of the Revolutionary History of Vermont and the Northern Campaign of 1777 by Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson

Some choice tidbit rewarded him for this, and he got so that whenever he was hungry, between meals, he would run up to an imaginary string, take the flying leap, turning the double somersault before he touched ground again, and walk up to me, cawing loudly with pleasure in his performance.
— from The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History by Myrtle Reed

There are two very marked types of intellect to be observed amongst men, which we may call the receptive and the creative.
— from The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 by James Stalker

Drawing Montgomery aside, he said, "And you, Colonel, chase these retreating Indians.
— from The Conquest: The True Story of Lewis and Clark by Eva Emery Dye

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— from Young Stowaways in Space by Richard M. (Richard Mace) Elam

"Ah, good-morning, Ben, and thank you for bringing it," said the captain, turning round to receive it.
— from Elsie's New Relations What They Did and How They Fared at Ion; A Sequel to Grandmother Elsie by Martha Finley