It instantaneously fills a socket completely moulded to its shape; and it seems most natural to ascribe the identity of quality in our feeling of the gaping socket and our feeling of what comes to fill it, to the sameness of a nerve-tract excited in different degrees.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Thus the phantasies which undergo conversion into symptoms are especially easy to detect in hysteria; compulsion neuroses are essentially dominated by the reactionary formations, or counter-seizures of the ego; what we designate as secondary elaboration in dreams dominates paranoia in the form of delusions, etc.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Tum vērō captīvī multīs cum lacrimīs iūrāvērunt sē in fidē mānsūrōs esse, et Caesar eōs incolumīs domum dīmīsit.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

El invierno dura desde el veintiuno de diciembre hasta el veintiuno de marzo.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Nancy seldom accompanied him; for the women of her generation—unless, like Priscilla, they took to outdoor management—were not given to much walking beyond their own house and garden, finding sufficient exercise in domestic duties.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

detail; enter into particulars, enter into details, descend to particulars, descend to details; itemize.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

If ever I did dream of such a matter, Abhor me.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The Ceylon elephant is distinctly different, in size and in several other features.
— from The Story of Malta by Maturin Murray Ballou

The [xxxvii] proper Gaelic equivalent is Domhnullach (donnulloch); it also means, the son of Donald.
— from Gairloch in North-West Ross-Shire Its Records, Traditions, Inhabitants, and Natural History, with a Guide to Gairloch and Loch Maree, and a Map and Illustrations by John H. (John Henry) Dixon

It is somehow not the same gaze that people rivet upon a Victor Hugo, or Niagara, or the bones of the mastodon, or the guillotine of the Revolution, or the great pyramid, or distant Vesuvius smoking in the sky, or any man long celebrated to you by his genius and achievements, or thing long celebrated to you by the praises of books and pictures—no, that gaze is only the gaze of intense curiosity, interest, wonder, engaged in drinking delicious deep draughts that taste good all the way down and appease and satisfy the thirst of a lifetime.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

These fellows were not in the army, nor did they ever take any interest, in a personal way, in military matters, except when engaged in dodging drafts.
— from Lincoln's Yarns and Stories A Complete Collection of the Funny and Witty Anecdotes That Made Lincoln Famous as America's Greatest Story Teller by Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly) McClure

He says, that the Bishop of Beauvais, who, the year after the death of Richelieu, was for a moment at the head of affairs, began his administration by giving to the Dutch their choice, either to abandon their religion, or else forfeit their alliance with France: ‘Et il demanda dès le premier
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

If you believe in prayer, pray that I may be just and may even in darkness do the right.
— from The Hindered Hand; or, The Reign of the Repressionist by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs

Historiées Faces de la Mort of Lyons, 1538; and among the principal the following may be here enumerated.—A German edition, intitled “Der Dodtendanz mit figuren.
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn

An inward voice replied, "Trust to the Almighty: He thy steps shall guide; He never fails to hear the faithful prayer, But worldly hope must end in dark despair."
— from The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca

Now, my well-beloved, my glory is that I am yours, and worthy of you; my future lies entirely in the hope of seeing you; and is not my life summed up in sitting at your feet, in lying under your eyes, in drawing deep breaths in the heaven you have created for me?
— from The Works of Honoré de Balzac: About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita, and Other Stories by Honoré de Balzac