But essentially only those external manifestations can be considered that refer back to definite psychical conditions, so that our phenomenology may be defined as the semiotic of normal psychology.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Some of this opposition is, of course, mere envy; the disappointment of displaced demagogues and the spite of narrow minds.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

The land saw glimpses of a new destiny and the stirring of new ideals.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

She knew how to hit to a hair's-breadth that moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the constraint of day and the suspense of night neutralize each other, leaving absolute mental liberty.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Phr. dies irae dies illa[Lat]; "the hue of dungeons and the scowl of night"
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

When you know her as well as I do, I am sure you will agree that she does, and that she ought never to be long banished from the free air and liberty of the country.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons, and the school of night; And beauty's crest becomes the heavens well.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

In voices well divulg'd, free, learn'd, and valiant, And in dimension and the shape of nature A gracious person; but yet I cannot love him.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

It was not lucrative to a young practitioner, with very little influence in London; and although he was, night and day, at the service of numbers of poor people and did wonders of gentleness and skill for them, he gained very little by it in money.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The six lectures deal in turn with ‘Nietzsche the man,’ ‘The gospel of Nietzsche,’ ‘Nietzsche and Christianity,’ ‘Nietzsche’s originality,’ ‘The charm of Nietzsche,’ and ‘The danger and the significance of Nietzsche.’
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

The sun went down, and the shades of night came rapidly on, but still the Spaniards continued their debauch.
— from Manco, the Peruvian Chief Or, An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas by William Henry Giles Kingston

Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons and the scowl of night.
— from A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir

What bliss for youth and beauty to meet thus at the close of day amid the solitudes of Nature!
— from The Redemption of David Corson by Charles Frederic Goss

In the meanwhile Gordon was riding, circumspectly, down the rutted trail, and it was an hour later when he dismounted at the shanty of Nasmyth’s workmen, and shared a meal with the gang employed on the dam.
— from The Greater Power by Harold Bindloss

Despite his night of ceaseless work, Henry Blaine, clear-eyed and alert of brain, was seated at his desk at the stroke of nine when Suraci was ushered in––the young detective who had trailed Walter Pennold from Brooklyn to the quiet backwater where Jimmy Brunell had sought in vain for disassociation from his past shadowy environment.
— from The Crevice by William J. Burns

O paradoxe, Blacke is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons, and the Schoole of night: And beauties crest becomes the heauens well Ber.
— from Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare