Imitation in octaves (with a decrease in resonance) creates an effect resembling an echo.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

These inquiries furnish us with a clue by which we may discover what are the duties and rights of citizens, and whether they can be separated one from the other; what is our country, in what does it really consist, and how can each of us ascertain whether he has a country or no?
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The conclusion drawn from the inadequacies of dream interpretation, that our hypotheses are wrong, is weakened by an observation which shows that the ambiguity and indefiniteness of the dream is rather characteristic and necessarily to be expected.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

More recently an editorial in the Outlook , discussing the Japanese situation in California, made this statement: The hundred millions of people now inhabiting the United States must be a united people, not merely a collection of groups of different peoples, different in racial cultures and ideals, agreeing to live together in peace and amity.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

She, fixed on death, is revolving craft and crime grimly in her bosom, and swells the changing surge of wrath.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

All these were to be seen at the first glance; and in one corner of the table was a big box filled with candies and nuts and raisins, and in the other a doll with curling golden hair and brown eyes, dressed in "real" clothes and with all her wardrobe in a trunk beside her.
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Another missionary relates that soon after the Delaware Indians had agreed among themselves to reject every temptation of the kind, and punish those who yielded to it, a white dealer in rum came among them, and placing himself in the midst of one of their villages, with a barrel of spirits beside him, he introduced a straw into it, and with many professions of civility and friendship to his Indian friends, he invited every one to come and take a suck through the straw gratis .
— from Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

“I suppose I must write to tell him that Duke is really coming, as I promised I would.
— from Philippa by Mrs. Molesworth

Ogival changes introduced at a later date into Romanesque churches, a very common occurrence, cannot justify the classification of the buildings as Transition monuments.
— from The Cathedrals of Northern Spain Their History and Their Architecture; Together with Much of Interest Concerning the Bishops, Rulers and Other Personages Identified with Them by Charles Rudy

(During at least two summers it had been our favorite amusement to build, in isolated nooks, houses like the one described in Robinson Crusoe, and thus hidden away we would sit together and chat.)
— from The Story of a Child by Pierre Loti

Down in rock crevasses along the shore they saw many sea pigeon eggs, and Bobby wanted to get them, but they were generally well out of reach.
— from Bobby of the Labrador by Dillon Wallace

"If an announcement of that kind is considered fair and decent in royal circles," angrily replied Frau Krupp, "it is their affair; as to the daughter of the Baroness von Ende, she would blush to think of such a custom."
— from The Secret Memoirs of Bertha Krupp From the Papers and Diaries of Chief Gouvernante Baroness D'Alteville by Henry W. (Henry William) Fischer

But what I cannot comprehend is, why the bees take exactly the same care of the male eggs deposited in royal cells, as of those that should become queens.
— from New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber

The county is very mountainous, and most of the mining is done in rugged canons along the Trinity River.
— from Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining by John S. (John Shertzer) Hittell