Dr. Ernst Lohsing tells me that he was once informed that a Mr. Schnepfe had called on him, while, as a matter of fact the gentleman’s name was Wachtel.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

So the proverb descends even lower than we do, from the child to the animal, and maintains that the content of a dream is the satisfaction of a need.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

In separate squadrons these their train divide, Each leads ten vessels through the yielding tide.
— from The Iliad by Homer

ciascun tra 'l mento e 'l principio del casso; che' da le reni era tornato 'l volto, e in dietro venir li convenia, perche' 'l veder dinanzi era lor tolto.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

In that country the Eve of St. Peter’s Day (the twenty-ninth of June) is celebrated by bonfires and dances exactly like those which commemorate St. John’s Eve.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

And if I had had assistance, I see no good that I should have done, except leading to my own exposure, and an unavoidable statement of the manner in which I have hushed up this business.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

He mounted a fiery horse, that which had borne him forward to victory in Greece; he fatigued himself with deadening exercise, losing the pangs of a troubled mind in animal sensation.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Here then, in these different emotional and practical appeals, in these adjustments of our concrete attitudes of hope and expectation, and all the delicate consequences which their differences entail, lie the real meanings of materialism and spiritualism—not in hair-splitting abstractions about matter's inner essence, or about the metaphysical attributes of God.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

It must be remembered, that observations made by one prisoner, which struck me as important, if not made by others, were put as questions by me; and I found that the opinions of the most intelligent, although differently expressed, led to the same result—that the present system of the Philadelphia penitentiary was the best that had been invented.
— from Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat

The first thing to do is to train themselves, to do every little thing that comes along as well as they can, so as to fit themselves for the higher work that may come.
— from The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 by Various

[181] THE PURPLE VALLEYS Far in the purple valleys of illusion I see her waiting, like the soul of music, With deep eyes, lovelier than cerulean pansies, Shadow and fire, yet merciless as poison; With red lips sweeter than Arabian storax, Yet bitterer than myrrh.
— from Kentucky Poems by Madison Julius Cawein

In the fourth month of my sojourn at St. Paulo I had a serious illness, an attack of the “sizoens,” or ague of the country, which, as it left me with shattered health and damped enthusiasm, led to my abandoning the plan I had formed of proceeding to the Peruvian towns of Pebas and Moyobamba, 250 and 600 miles further west, and so completing the examination of the Natural History of the Amazonian plains up to the foot of the Andes.
— from The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates

Being unable to find words to express himself, the enthusiastic cook placed his hand on the region which was destined ere long to become a receptacle for the mapira, and rolled his eyes upwards in rapture.
— from Black Ivory by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

When the lessons of the chest, arms, and head give a satisfactory result, which ought to be at the end of four days (eight lessons), they will pass to that of the legs.
— from New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. by François Baucher

On one side of the body were placed a bow and quiver, on the other was a doll made up of fine mantles and dressed exactly like the king.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Thou art a child Of night and death, even lower than a worm. Gather the skirts up of thy shadowy self,
— from Robert Falconer by George MacDonald