But when I am asleep, have quite suspended psychic activity and have suppressed all but certain of its remainders, then it is by no means inevitable that these remainders have a meaning.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

O heinous, strong, and bold conspiracy!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

he said, "and be careful where you sleep, as you may catch cold."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Thus she resumed the thread of her story: "A Bulgarian captain came in, saw me all bleeding, and the soldier not in the least disconcerted.
— from Candide by Voltaire

A month after his return to Paris, he took cold on coming out of his club, and had such a bad cough that his medical man ordered him to Nice for the rest of the winter.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

My dear Gertrude,—I'm afraid it's "no go"—I've had such a bad cold all the week that I've hardly been out for some days, and I don't think it would be wise to try the expedition this time, and I leave here on Tuesday.
— from The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

He had left Paris far behind, but when he looked down he saw a beautiful country, a fertile land upon which man had worked for two thousand years, too beautiful to be trodden to pieces by armies.
— from The Forest of Swords: A Story of Paris and the Marne by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

As for that usurping monarch, having performed acts of velour much more considerable than could be expected of a royal ruffian and usurper, who had such a bad cause, and who was so cruel to women,—as for King Padella, I say, when his army ran away, the King ran away too, kicking his first general, Prince Punchikoff, from his saddle, and galloping away on the Prince’s horse, having, indeed, had twenty-five or twenty-six of his own shot under him.
— from The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray

On his way, he saw a black crow hopping some distance away.
— from The Boy With the U.S. Miners by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

As he was looking around, the music grew louder, sweeter, and more stirring, and sending his gaze down the lane to where the trees arched it, he saw a big crowd of Small People holding a fair.
— from North Cornwall Fairies and Legends by Enys Tregarthen

It is probable that Squire William, the "gentleman of great pomp," invited many visitors, especially young men of distinction, for hunting parties in his deer park; and Sidney is said to have stayed at Brougham Castle, so that he may well have been, once in a while, in the Lake District.
— from The Book of Coniston by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood

One of the lazy natives, who had lounged by the house smoking a bad cigar, had thrown the burning stump in at this open window.
— from A Mortal Antipathy by Oliver Wendell Holmes

For a first offence against the laws, a culprit was to have his saddle and bridle cut up!
— from The Red Man's Revenge: A Tale of The Red River Flood by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne