But the whole subject of the differences of the sounds produced under different states of the mind is so obscure, that I have succeeded in throwing hardly any light on it; and the remarks which I have made, have but little significance.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

The fork then vibrates, and, its backward movement continuing, an undulating line is drawn on the smoked paper by the pen.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Commissions in the service are distributed on the same principle.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Experience, I believe, soon convinced them that this method of raising money was by much too slow to answer their purpose; and that coffers which originally were so ill filled, and which emptied themselves so very fast, could be replenished by no other expedient but the ruinous one of drawing bills upon London, and when they became due, paying them by other draughts on the same place, with accumulated interest and commission.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The bold Ardaric felt and represented the disgrace of this servile partition; and his subjects, the warlike Gepidae, with the Ostrogoths, under the conduct of three valiant brothers, encouraged their allies to vindicate the rights of freedom and royalty.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

While they thus went on their voyage on the high sea, it happened that the faithful John, as he sat on the deck of the ship, playing music, saw three crows in the air, who came flying toward them.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

But what brought infinite harm and damage on the said professions, even more than all the aforesaid causes, was the burning zeal of the new Christian religion, which, after a long and bloody combat, with its wealth of miracles and with the sincerity of its works, had finally cast down and swept away the old faith of the heathens, and, devoting itself most ardently with all diligence to driving out and extirpating root and branch every least occasion whence error could arise, not only defaced or threw to the ground all the marvellous statues, sculptures, pictures, mosaics, and ornaments of the false gods of the heathens, but even the memorials and the honours of numberless men of mark, to whom, for their excellent merits, the noble spirit of the ancients had set up statues and other
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

He sate, with a patient degree of attention, to observe the proceedings of a regimental court-martial, that happened to be called, in the time of his stay with us; and one night, as late as at eleven o'clock, he accompanied the Major of the regiment in going what are styled the Rounds, where he might observe the forms of visiting the guards, for the seeing that they and their sentries are ready in their duty on their several posts.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

It is ascertained if a drop of the solution possesses the bitter taste of digitaline.
— from Legal Chemistry A Guide to the Detection of Poisons, Examination of Tea, Stains, Etc., as Applied to Chemical Jurisprudence by Alfred Naquet

Tobacco also poisons the saliva furnished for the digestion of food, and thus at the very outset impairs, in both of these particulars, the general digestion, and especially the digestion of the starchy portions of the food.
— from A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

The neglect and decline of the Sorabian population was however always painfully felt by some patriotic individuals; and the very injudicious and tyrannic attempts of their German rulers, during the seventeenth century, to eradicate the language and supplant it by the German, found in all places only a reluctant and forced submission.
— from Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations With a Sketch of Their Popular Poetry by Talvj

Bearing these facts in mind we will now proceed to the discussion of the scientific principles governing the phrenological examination of Size and Configuration of Brain , or the theory of the localization in different organs of the brain of the corresponding faculties of the mind.
— from How to Become Rich: A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony by William Windsor

The bell gradually becomes more freely developed, and at last, by the reduction and entire disappearance of the stomachal peduncle, becomes the most essential part of the Medusa, after it has left its previous dwelling-place in the bell of the Turritopsis .
— from The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse

Charles C. Dyer, of the same place, also testified as to Kelly's identity.
— from The Story of a Dark Plot; Or, Tyranny on the Frontier by A.L.O.C.

Slight movements, such as these just described, or the scarcely perceptible drawing down of the corners of the mouth, are the last remnants or rudiments of strongly marked and intelligible movements.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Will you love me as you did when I was only your humble Diana of the Silent Places?
— from Peregrine's Progress by Jeffery Farnol

To expropriate such owners can by no means be a desire of the Socialistic proletariat.
— from Our Revolution: Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 by Leon Trotsky