In the development of her story the author shows herself, first, a realist, by the naturalness of her characters and the minute accuracy with which she reproduces their ways and even the accents of their speech; second, a psychologist, by the continual analysis and explanation of motives; third, a moralist, by showing in each individual the action and reaction of universal moral forces, and especially by making every evil act bring inevitable punishment to the man who does it.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Hannah, quite worn out, lay down on the sofa at the bed's foot and fell fast asleep, Mr. Laurence marched to and fro in the parlor, feeling that he would rather face a rebel battery than Mrs. March's countenance as she entered.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

But Emma’s face always rose before his eyes, and a monotone, like the humming of a top, sounded in his ears, “If you should marry after all!
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

To this felt presence, certain instinctive reactions are attached, and the sensations that may be involved in that apparition, when each for any reason becomes emphatic, are referred to it as its qualities or its effects.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Here, for retreat in dangerous hour, Some chief had framed a rustic bower.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

There might have been cause for maternal anxiety, if Demi had not given convincing proofs that he was a true boy, as well as a budding philosopher, for often, after a discussion which caused Hannah to prophesy, with ominous nods, "That child ain't long for this world," he would turn about and set her fears at rest by some of the pranks with which dear, dirty, naughty little rascals distract and delight their parent's souls.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

But the wicked step-mother, because of whom the children had gone out into the world, thought all the time that the sister had been torn to pieces by the wild beasts in the wood, and that the brother had been shot for a roebuck by the huntsmen.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

22 Of the Pahang regalia I have not been able to obtain a list with any pretensions to completeness, but from a remark by Mr. Clifford (the present Resident) in one of his books, they would appear to be essentially the same as those of the other Federated States.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

There was a pleasant sunny window, where she had often sat singing at her sewing; there a little case of books, and various little fancy articles, ranged by them, the gifts of Christmas holidays; there was her simple wardrobe in the closet and in the drawers:—here was, in short, her home; and, on the whole, a happy one it had been to her.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The two women looked at this person whose presence they had entirely forgotten, and retired; but, as she left the apartment, Julie gave the stranger a supplicating glance, to which he replied by a smile that an indifferent spectator would have been surprised to see on his stern features.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

We got down to the ground floor all right, but there we struck something worse than a stone wall.
— from Shot With Crimson by George Barr McCutcheon

The numerous pistils form a round bunch of akenes, their styles developing into long feathery tails, and these gray, plumy heads are very conspicuous and ornamental, when the flowers are gone.
— from Field Book of Western Wild Flowers by Margaret Armstrong

In the Exergue:—" Moschi ad Holowzinum victi A. 1708 3/14 Jul. " And round the margin the verse from Lucan in question: " Victrices Copias Alium Laturus In Orbem :" with the substitution of copias for aquilas , recorded by Voltaire and criticised by L. The same inscriptions are given in Bergh's Beskrifning öfver Svenska mynt och Skädepenningar , 4to., Upsala, 1773; only he adds, that the inscription in the margin is only found on some copies.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851 by Various

For though we read plainly in Holy Scripture, that God created Adam in an estate of Living for Ever, which was conditionall, that is to say, if he disobeyed not his Commandement; which was not essentiall to Humane Nature, but consequent to the vertue of the Tree of Life; whereof hee had liberty to eat, as long as hee had not sinned; and that hee was thrust out of Paradise after he had sinned, lest hee should eate thereof, and live for ever; and that Christs Passion is a Discharge of sin to all that beleeve on him; and by consequence, a restitution of Eternall Life, to all the Faithfull, and to them onely: yet the Doctrine is now, and hath been a long time far otherwise; namely, that every man hath Eternity of Life by Nature, in as much as his Soul is Immortall: So that the flaming Sword at the entrance of Paradise, though it hinder a man from coming to the Tree of Life, hinders him not from the Immortality which God took from him for his Sin; nor makes him to need the sacrificing of Christ, for the recovering of the same; and consequently, not onely the faithfull and righteous, but also the wicked, and the Heathen, shall enjoy Eternall Life, without any Death at all; much lesse a Second, and Everlasting Death.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Moreover, this stretch of the heath-lands of East Anglia looks the very place for any roving bird to haunt, and it is a real bond of union between me and the artist, who gives to these pages more than half their brightness, to learn from him that the sheldrake nests here habitually.
— from Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by James Edmund Vincent

He even rose to great favor at Rome by his flattery of the pope in a work entitled "The Travels of the Popes."
— from Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4 by Wolfgang Menzel

His body, of course, was found and removed, but nobody noticed the maple staff, stuck in the ground beside him; and left there, it took root, flourished and became the tree one sees there now.
— from Stranger Than Fiction: Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore by Mary L. Lewes

Action) what feelings are raised by human actions i. 48.
— from Elements of Criticism, Volume III. by Kames, Henry Home, Lord

Only by assuming that there is more to us than we know, can we find any rational basis for the way we think and feel and act.
— from Outwitting Our Nerves: A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. (Josephine Agnes) Jackson