One evening, tired with his experimenting, and not being able to elicit the facts he needed, he left his frogs and rabbits to some repose under their trying and mysterious dispensation of unexplained shocks, and went to finish his evening at the theatre of the Porte Saint Martin, where there was a melodrama which he had already seen several times; attracted, not by the ingenious work of the collaborating authors, but by an actress whose part it was to stab her lover, mistaking him for the evil-designing duke of the piece.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Now since it is granted there is a delight or uneasiness still attending merit or demerit of every kind, this is all that is requisite for my purpose.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

There are a great many similar processes at the bottom of impressions that depend only upon swift and unconscious inference.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

= whether designedly or undesignedly spread abroad .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

There were some doubts about her identity, but she was certainly daughter of Udai Singh and wife of Jahāngīr ( Āīn , i. 619).
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

While this Accelerator will enable us to concentrate ourselves with tremendous impact upon any moment or occasion that demands our utmost sense and vigour, the Retarder will enable us to pass in passive tranquillity through infinite hardship and tedium.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

He still dreamed of ultimate success, and sat down a grey-headed man of eighty, to read over all the authors on the hermetic mysteries, from Geber to his own day, lest he should have misunderstood some process, which it was not yet too late to recommence.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

The doctrine of universal sympathy, a clear statement of which was given long ago in the ethical theory of Adam Smith, has thus acquired a psychological justification in the modern theories of imitative movement.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

We, fearing the canonicall hour would be past before we got thither, did with a great deal of unwillingness send away the license and wedding ring.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I had scarcely a doubt of ultimate success, and set out with a confidence which nothing short of ocular demonstration could destroy.
— from Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales by John Oxley

Once the skin is pierced, the instrument must be directed obliquely upwards, so as to make the opening and position of the trocar dependent.
— from A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell

This course consisted in introduction of proctoscope and sigmoidscope diagnosis of ulcerations specific and benign, and local treatment through this instrument.
— from The Hospital Bulletin, Vol. V, No. 2, April 15, 1909 by Various

The difficulty of using such a vocabulary could not be easily removed; for, to arrange beings under common and generic denominations, it became necessary to know their distinguishing properties: the need arose for observation and definition, that is to say, for natural history and metaphysics of a far more developed kind than men can at that time have possessed.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

She possessed rubies and diamonds of unusual size, and so many precious stones of all kinds that her satin dresses were embroidered with them.
— from Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Constance Fenimore Woolson

The dogs of unbelievers!" shouted Abdul, their leader.
— from Tahara Among African Tribes by Harold M. (Harold Morrow) Sherman

For instance, he maintained that women had neither attraction nor interest for him—yet he found himself singularly displeased when after two or three days of utter solitude, and when he was rather eagerly expecting Manella to arrive with the new milk which was his staple food, a lanky, red-haired ugly boy appeared instead of her—a boy who slouched along, swinging the milk pail in one hand and clutching a half-munched slice of pine-apple in the other.
— from The Secret Power by Marie Corelli

Signal just come from the flagship demanding our unconditional surrender at daybreak."
— from The Sea Monarch by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Then across the northern sea grew and spread a line of white which swept down on us swiftly, and with a roar the squall, which came before the wall of rain, was on us.
— from A Sea Queen's Sailing by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

It is clear that the replies to questions of this kind can be of psychological value only when the questioner knows beforehand the mind of the youth, and can accordingly judge with what degree of understanding, sincerity, and ability the circular blanks have been filled out.
— from Psychology and Industrial Efficiency by Hugo Münsterberg