Whether we find reciprocal interference of series, inversion, or repetition, we see that the objective is always the same—to obtain what we have called a MECHANISATION of life.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

And since, to our successive feelings, a feeling of their own succession is added, that must be treated as an [Pg 629] additional fact requiring its own special elucidation, which this talk about outer time-relations stamping copies of themselves within, leaves all untouched.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The latter is at best nothing but a very unfinished and partial structure, and only by the circuitous path of reasoning attains the goal which the former reaches in one step.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

One or two of the panels are however more noteworthy, as preserving a flickering of the antient beauty of design, and these find record in our sketch-book.
— from The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by W. H. Hamilton (William Henry Hamilton) Rogers

Next come injuries caused by derailments, which generally result from running into open switches, off derails, too fast running at bad places in the track, defective equipment or track.
— from Railroad Accidents, Their Cause and Prevention by R. C. (Ralph Coffin) Richards

And since, to our successive feelings, a feeling of their succession is added, that must be treated as an additional fact requiring its own special elucidation , which this talk about the feelings knowing their time-relations as a matter of course leaves all untouched.
— from Psychology: Briefer Course by William James

"These are the false refinements in our style which you ought to correct: first, by argument and fair means; but if those fail, I think you are to make use of your authority as censor, and by an annual 'Index Expurgatorius' expunge all words and phrases that are offensive to good sense, and condemn those barbarous mutilations of vowels and syllables.
— from The Tatler, Volume 4 by Steele, Richard, Sir

And then, taking alarm, she said he must be feeling really ill, or such things as wills would never have come into his head.
— from The Devil's Garden by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell

On the contrary, her face rippled into one smile after another, and seizing Blake by both hands, she danced around him, singing: "You did it!
— from The Net by Rex Beach

This time I went up the Waimakiriri by myself, and found that we had been fully right in our supposition that the Rakaia saddles would only lead on to that river.
— from A First Year in Canterbury Settlement by Samuel Butler

The boats were so much bruised that we were obliged to halt on these rocks for repairs, instead of starting out again into the current as we intended.
— from The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

And it is slave labor which strikes a decadence through the other, drying up many of its branches with a fearful sterility, and rendering the [Pg 112] rest but scantily fruitful; really incapable of sustaining more.
— from The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It by Hinton Rowan Helper