But the will itself by confining and intensifying [25] the attention may arbitrarily give vividness or distinctness to any object whatsoever; and from hence we may deduce the uselessness, if not the absurdity, of certain recent schemes which promise an artificial memory, but which in reality can only produce a confusion and debasement of the fancy.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

' Chapter 6 Now I remember comrades— Old playmates on new seas— Whenas we traded orpiment Among the savages.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

I recollect counting over perfectly the possibilities, reminding myself that nothing was more natural, for instance, then the appearance of one of the men about the place, or even of a messenger, a postman, or a tradesman’s boy, from the village.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Naunyn, consequently, plotting out on a diagram of the hemisphere the 71 irreproachably reported cases of [Pg 56] aphasia which he was able to collect, finds that the lesions concentrate themselves in three places: first, on Broca's centre; second, on Wernicke's; third, on the supra-marginal and angular gyri under which those fibres pass which connect the visual centres with the rest of the brain
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

P. A. STOLYPIN PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL AND MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR Unable to get a living from their small and comparatively unproductive farms, and equally unable to find work elsewhere, the peasants clamor loudly for more land; and when, as the [pg 80] result of a bad harvest, their situation becomes intolerable, they are seized with a sort of berserker madness and break out into fierce bread riots, which frequently end in regular campaigns of pillage and arson.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 by Various

However much the possessor of old plate may love his family heirlooms, there is a hesitancy in actually bringing into use even in rare circumstances old plate of the Stuart period.
— from Chats on Old Sheffield Plate by Arthur Hayden

It really came out pretty well, but it gives me a queer, conscious feeling to be wearing it when I meet her.
— from Under the Country Sky by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

For example, to take an extreme case, silks from France might still go to England for cottons to the advantage of both countries for a time, though "exchange" were exactly at [471] "par" between them and the "demand" for silks were precisely met by the "demand" for cottons, on the strength of a marked and persistent diversity in relative cost of production of the two textiles.
— from Principles of Political Economy by Arthur Latham Perry

The truth was he hated sending bills to poor people, and his great delight was not in receiving cheques or payment for his services, but in seeing his patients restored to health and strength again.
— from The Day of Judgment by Joseph Hocking

This method of planting should be followed in moving plants from one part of the garden to another, in resetting clumps of perennials, in bedding out house-plants and those received by mail.
— from The Flower Garden by Ida D. (Ida Dandridge) Bennett

Dec. 6—Germans occupy Lodz and drive wedge into Russian centre; one Przemysl fort falls; Russians shell Cracow.
— from The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various

Its contrast with itself, whilst yet in its rocky cradle on Plinlimmon, will be seen from the accompanying sketch of Blaen Hafren , or the “Head of the River,” two miles from its source.
— from Handbook to the Severn Valley Railway Illustrative and Descriptive of Places along the Line from Worcester to Shrewsbury by John Randall