L'immense majorité des Français constate avec une indifférence totale le remplacement progressif de leur langue par le mauvais anglais des marchands et des publicitaires, et le reste du monde a parfaitement admis l'hégémonie linguistique des Anglo-saxons parce qu'ils n'ont pas d'autres horizons que de servir ces riches et puissants maîtres.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Locke caused an uproar when he said that the unity of consciousness made a man the same person , whether supported by the same substance or no, and that God would not, in the great day, make a person answer for what he remembered nothing of.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

This fact constitutes one of the counts in the orthodox indictment of him: it is cited as proof that his capacity for consecutive thought was limited, and that he was thus deficient mentally, and perhaps a downright moron.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I have made him sensible of my power, and can now enjoy the pleasure of triumphing over a mind prepared to dislike me, and prejudiced against all my past actions.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

He found that 12 University Place was a large, dilapidated mansion, at present apparently uninhabited, though he knew it housed usually a dozen freshmen.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

These three of the Tuatha De Danann, majestic and powerful and weird in their mystic red, are like the warriors of the ‘gentry’ seen by contemporary seers in West Ireland.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

I hear new news every day, and those ordinary rumours of war, plagues, fires, inundations, thefts, murders, massacres, meteors, comets, spectrums, prodigies, apparitions, of towns taken, cities besieged in France, Germany, Turkey, Persia, Poland, &c., daily musters and preparations, and such like, which these tempestuous times afford, battles fought, so many men slain, monomachies, shipwrecks, piracies and sea-fights; peace, leagues, stratagems, and fresh alarms.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

On the Pageants or Dramatic Mysteries anciently performed at Coventry.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

Venture took care to augment their differences, though under an appearance of doing the direct contrary, throwing out in a distant manner, and provincial accents, hints that produced the utmost effect, and furnished such scenes as were sufficient to make any one die with laughter.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Sonia Danidoff was extended on the divan motionless and pale as death.
— from Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas by Pierre Souvestre

She called him quaint, pet names of her own,—"Dearness" and "Daintiness," "Mopsiness" and "Preciousness," and "Dearest-in-the-World," and who knew what besides?
— from Loveliness: A Story by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

But Mason and Dixon’s line [5] still marks the boundaries between the three States of Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania, and here and there a stone still stands where they set it up in their “vistoe,” more than a hundred and fifty years ago.
— from Once Upon a Time in Delaware by Katharine Pyle

Last of all, he had to satisfy himself that if he did make a pond and build a home, he would be reasonably safe in it.
— from The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

"Nothing appears against them," said du Maurier, "and people are beginning to open their mouths with incredible freedom.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

This comes from defective models and plans, and these defects arise mainly from these sources—the lack of boldness and variety in the main outlines, and in the construction of the roofs and chimneys.
— from Woodward's Country Homes by F. W. (Francis W.) Woodward

"That woman nursed my dying mother, and played a mother's part to me.
— from Dawn by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Those who traverse the desert meet animals passing all conception ..."
— from The Temptation of St. Antony; Or, A Revelation of the Soul by Gustave Flaubert