Our literature is not poor in good and detailed dream analyses.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

It gives a detailed description of the torture to which people are put by the various noises of a small Italian town.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

OF THE REPLY DON QUIXOTE GAVE HIS CENSURER, WITH OTHER INCIDENTS, GRAVE AND DROLL Don Quixote, then, having risen to his feet, trembling from head to foot like a man dosed with mercury, said in a hurried, agitated voice, "The place I am in, the presence in which I stand, and the respect I have and always have had for the profession to which your worship belongs, hold and bind the hands of my just indignation; and as well for these reasons as because I know, as everyone knows, that a gownsman's weapon is the same as a woman's, the tongue, I will with mine engage in equal combat with your worship, from whom one might have expected good advice instead of foul abuse.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“As burning fevers, agues pale and faint, Life-poisoning pestilence and frenzies wood, 740 The marrow-eating sickness, whose attaint Disorder breeds by heating of the blood; Surfeits, imposthumes, grief, and damn’d despair, Swear nature’s death, for framing thee so fair. 744 “And not the least of all these maladies But in one minute’s fight brings beauty under: Both favour, savour, hue and qualities, Whereat th’impartial gazer late did wonder, 748 Are on the sudden wasted, thaw’d and done, As mountain snow melts with the midday sun.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I dersay you've eard what I gone and done, don't judge me harshly, I couldn't do otherwise, and I'm not so bad to blame as you may suppose.
— from Red Spider, Volume 2 (of 2) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

I gave a detailed description of my adventures to my receptive family circle, and when my wife heard Mr. Scorer's last message, "I will come over the day before you are coming in
— from The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 by Various

= γ, meeting Cz in G ; and draw DF parallel to EG .
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

I developed a lively curiosity in the elderly recluse, and nearly every time I moved in or out of my own residence, or passed my front windows, I glanced at Dr. Dunton's house in hopes of seeing him.
— from The Mermaid of Druid Lake, and Other Stories by Charles Weathers Bump

"It certainly is great," agreed Dave Darrin.
— from The High School Boys' Fishing Trip by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

You’re building castles in the air, To end in grief and dark despair. 62.
— from The Seaside Sibyl; Or Leaves of Destiny: A Fortune Teller in Verse by Anonymous

You watch where I go, and drive down.
— from A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter