For this is the first thing they lay down, Whatever is asserted (for that is the best way that occurs to me, at the moment, of rendering the Greek term ἀξίωμα ; if I can think of a more accurate expression hereafter, I will use it), is asserted as being either true or false.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The fact that the witticisms of civilized races show such a preference for this very mother-in-law theme seems to me to point to the fact that the emotional relations between mother-in-law and son-in-law are controlled by components which stand in sharp contrast to each other.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

And if this, or anything like this, is the fact, then the time occupied by a given external change, measured by many movements in the one case, must seem much longer than in the other case, when measured by one movement."
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

He forgot that I was performing a conjuring trick on Mr. Franklin Blake; he forgot that I had upset the house from top to bottom; he forgot that I had not read Robinson Crusoe since I was a child.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

He says that most of the booksellers do design to fall a-building again the next year; but he says that the Bishop of London do use them most basely, worse than any other landlords, and says he will be paid to this day the rent, or else he will not come to treat with them for the time to come; and will not, on that condition either, promise them any thing how he will use them; and, the Parliament sitting, he claims his privilege, and will not be cited before the Lord Chief justice, as others are there, to be forced to a fair dealing.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The joke of the matter is that the arrangement at which they arrived was as follows:— 8 3 12 1 11 14 9 6 4 7 2 13 15 10 5 The warders failed to detect the important fact that the men could not possibly get into this position without two of them having been at some time in the same cell together.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

4 Then Adam threw himself down from the top of that mountain; his face was torn and his flesh was ripped; he lost a lot of blood and was close to death.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

But our hand which followed the track, as we crawled, clung to the iron as if it would not leave it, as if the skin of our hand were thirsty and begging of the metal some secret fluid beating in its coldness.
— from Anthem by Ayn Rand

When they returned to the chateau, Lady Blanche conducted Emily to her favourite turret, and from thence they rambled through the ancient chambers, which Blanche had visited before.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

They proceeded on their Voyage to Madagascar , but I do not find they took any Ships in their Way; when they arrived at the N. E. Part of that Island, they found two Sloops at Anchor, who, upon seeing them, slip’d their Cables and run themselves ashore, the Men all landing, and running into the Woods; these were two Sloops which the Men had run away with from the West-Indies , and seeing Avery , they supposed him to be some Frigate sent to take them, and therefore not being of Force to engage him, they did what they could to save themselves.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Gideon was certainly a little moved, for though there was no long pause before he made a remark in objection, his tone was more mild and deprecatory than before; Pash, meanwhile, pressing his lips together, rubbing his black head with both his hands and wrinkling his brow horizontally, with the expression of one who differs from every speaker, but does not think it worth while to say so.
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

The faces of all are expressive in every inch; all restraint of habit or decorum is gone for the time being.
— from Oxford by Edward Thomas

Her sylvan spirit was somewhat startled, when a servant brought five little speckled plover eggs, all lying in the nest just as taken from the tree.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

Never before had she looked so desirable, and never before had he felt the tides of love surge to so high a Water-mark.
— from Red Money by Fergus Hume

It was fortunate that this was not known a little earlier; for had the French forces been joined to those under Manak Chand, the reconquest of Calcutta would not have been so easily achieved.
— from With Clive in India; Or, The Beginnings of an Empire by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

He calls attention, however, to the fact that tens of thousands of Kaffirs have adopted the religion of Europeans and have accepted ideas from their teachers, wherefore "it will surprise no one to learn that these tales are already undergoing great changes among a very large section of the natives on the border."
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

The will to fight endowed her with the physical power of fighting; the thought created the fact; and she knew that as long as she believed herself to be unconquered, she was unconquerable.
— from The Builders by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

For the same reason, the personages who for centuries have been the subject of myths respectfully passed on from mouth to mouth, and periodically put into action by the rites, could not fail to take a very especial place in the popular imagination.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Here the gulph was found to take a river-like form, but the eastern half of it was occupied by a dry, sandy spit and shoal water.
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders