They were evidently not unprepared for it, thanks to old Hester, who had overheard enough of Helen's wild words to know that something was amiss, and had reported accordingly; but none of them had ventured to interrupt the interview, lest Helen should be driven to desperation as before.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

So it becomes possible to derive entirely new uses from the power of suggestion; we are able to control it, the patient does not work himself into any state of mind he pleases, but in so far as we are able to influence him at all, we can guide the suggestion.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

There was an air of oddity, in short, about the dress of the whole party, which, at first, caused me to recur to my original idea of the “soothing system,” and to fancy that Monsieur Maillard had been willing to deceive me until after dinner, that I might experience no uncomfortable feelings during the repast, at finding myself dining with lunatics; but I remembered having been informed, in Paris, that the southern provincialists were a peculiarly eccentric people, with a vast number of antiquated notions; and then, too, upon conversing with several members of the company, my apprehensions were immediately and fully dispelled.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

De plus l'Association organise chaque année en novembre une foire virtuelle du livre ancien sur le site, et en mai une véritable foire internationale du livre ancien qui a lieu à Paris et dont le catalogue officiel est visible aussi sur le site.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

De la combinación de tan valiosos y variados elementos nace una filosofía muy humana y escrita
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Tam praesentibus plena est numinibus, ut facilius possis Deum quam hominem invenire.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Down he went, and Deiphobus cried exultingly: "Not unavenged falls Asius, but I have given him a companion on his journey to the shades." Thus saved from his peril, the stout old Cretan glared about him, looking for another mark for his spear; and he found one in the young Alcathous, who was married to a daughter of Anchises, and was thus closely related to Æneas.
— from Stories from the Iliad by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell

this man is so skillful as to leave such feeble traces that they escape Gevrol’s practised eye, and you think he would risk his safety by leaving an entire night unaccounted for? It’s impossible!
— from The Lerouge Case by Emile Gaboriau

"Ees no use for talk wiz such fools.
— from The Bad Man: A Novel by Porter Emerson Browne

It will avoid the evils of a disputed election, now unprovided for in the constitution.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Moreover, such an innovation would practically amount to placing the entire nation under foreign authority, and it may be queried whether it would not be more advantageous for the people to have one uniform foreign rule universally substituted for the native, than to be at the mercy of an executive formed of such heterogeneous materials as those we have described.
— from The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various

He liked to get his English newspapers upon French soil, and it irked him not that they were thirty-six hours old.
— from All along the River: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

I have eaten no unclean food.
— from The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Bolesław Prus

The most interesting building in Frankfort is undoubtedly the Römer, a huge building which contains the Hall of the Electors, now used for the sittings of the Upper Senate of Frankfort, and the Hall of the Emperors in which the latter were proclaimed.
— from The Prussian Terror by Alexandre Dumas

But when this grey man attacked me the other night, the incident was recalled to my mind, but not," added Jerce, with emphasis, "not until Ferdinand told me that he had seen a man in grey clothes with a scar on his cheek.
— from The Purple Fern by Fergus Hume