Who can pick apart all the nameless feelings that stream in at every moment from his various internal organs, muscles, heart, glands, lungs, etc., and compose in their totality his sense of bodily life?
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

" The girl stood still before the wonderful plant, for the green leaves exhaled a sweet and refreshing fragrance, and the flowers glittered and sparkled in the sunshine like colored flames, and the harmony of sweet sounds lingered round them as if each concealed within itself a deep fount of melody, which thousands of years could not exhaust.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

In these areas every military act involved the definition of the political relations of the United States Government to the governments locally enjoying authority.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The whole capital employed, therefore, in such a round-about foreign trade of consumption, will generally give less encouragement and support to the productive labour of the country, than an equal capital employed in a more direct trade of the same kind.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

75. Observe the sentences Lesbia est bona , Lesbia is good Lesbia est ancilla , Lesbia is a maidservant We have learned ( § 55 ) that bona , when used, as here, in the predicate to describe the subject, is called a predicate adjective .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The cluck of their oars was the only sound of any distinctness upon the sea, and as they laboured amid the thickening shades the lamp-lights grew larger, each appearing to send a flaming sword deep down into the waves before it, until there arose, among other dim shapes of the kind, the form of the vessel for which they were bound.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Chapeaux, other than of gules lined ermine, are but rarely met with, and unless specifically blazoned to the contrary a cap of maintenance is always presumed to be gules and ermine.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

In fact, it is a principle in our government that no man or set of men shall have authority in all departments of government, legislative, executive, and judicial.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

With food and water and warmth and light their hearts grew lighter, especially as they soon discovered that in many of the vast caverns gigantic mushrooms grew in the wildest profusion.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

Such was, for instance, the "Five of Clubs," whose members were Longfellow, Sumner, C. C. Felton, professor of Greek at Harvard, and afterward president of the college; G. S. Hillard, a graceful lecturer, essayist, and poet, of a somewhat amateurish kind; and Henry R. Cleveland, of Jamaica Plain, a lover of books and a writer of them.
— from Initial Studies in American Letters by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

For the rest, the man was good looking enough, and Vera judged from his dark eyes and black moustache that he was a foreigner, doubtless some relation of her mother.
— from The Midnight Guest: A Detective Story by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White

[Pg 309] Luke Gamble looked embarrassed, and shot one devilish angry glance at his clerk, and then made Doctor Toole very welcome.
— from The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Springs therefore are relatively deficient in germ life, except as they become infected with soil organisms, as the water issues from the soil.
— from Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying by H. L. (Harry Luman) Russell

[599] Richard’s Castle is almost certainly the castle of Richard, son of Scrob, one of the Normans to whom Edward the Confessor had granted large estates, and who probably fortified himself on this site.
— from The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles. by Ella S. Armitage

This rich valley was apportioned by the Spanish conquerors to soldiers who were granted large estates as well as the labor of the Indians living on them.
— from Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham

Such troublesome thoughts seemed to come to me without my wish or will,—and stayed too long with me for my peace: however, I searched them out and fought them down, and cleared my brain of such poisonous cobwebs by writing my "Probabilities, an Aid to Faith;" a small treatise on the antecedent likelihood of everything that has happened, which did me great good while composing it, and has (to my happy knowledge from many grateful letters) enlightened and comforted hundreds of unwilling misbelievers.
— from My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper

“This shall the pleased eyes of our children see; For this the stars of God long even as we; Earth listens for his wings; the Fates Expectant lean; Faith cross-propt waits, And the tired waves of Thought’s insurgent sea.”
— from James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol 2/2 by Horace Elisha Scudder