The abnormalities of harelip, breastmole, supernumerary digits, negro’s inkle, strawberry mark and portwine stain were alleged by one as a prima facie and natural hypothetical explanation of those swineheaded (the case of Madame Grissel Steevens was not forgotten) or doghaired infants occasionally born.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

I stood mute, almost paralyzed with wonder and awe before this dread apparition of another age.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

In the following passage, when 'impressions' pass through a common 'centre of communication' in succession (much as people might pass into a theatre through a turnstile) consciousness, non-existent until then, is supposed to result: "Separate impressions are received by the senses—by different parts of the body.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

H2 anchor I Sit and Look Out I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame, I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done, I see in low life the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate, I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women, I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid, I see these sights on the earth, I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs and prisoners, I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill'd to preserve the lives of the rest, I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like; All these—all the meanness and agony without end I sitting look out upon, See, hear, and am silent.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Instead of retiring from the congregation, when the voice of the deacon dismissed the profane multitude, he prayed with the faithful, disputed with the bishops, preached on the most sublime and intricate subjects of theology, celebrated with sacred rites the vigil of Easter, and publicly declared himself, not only a partaker, but, in some measure, a priest and hierophant of the Christian mysteries.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Ang búhat nga kumplítu ihátag sa maistru, All papers that are complete should be turned in to the teacher.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Self-preservation, in so monstrous a press, knew now no pity, no respect of aught.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

But what made me furious was that I knew for certain that I should go, that I should make a point of going; and the more tactless, the more unseemly my going would be, the more certainly I would go.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The "patrollers" were bands of white men—usually young men—who were organized largely for the purpose of regulating the conduct of the slaves at night in such matters as preventing the slaves from going from one plantation to another without passes, and for preventing them from holding any kind of meetings without permission and without the presence at these meetings of at least one white man.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Following the trail left by the evil-doer, the Indian soon met a party of white men.
— from Third Reader: The Alexandra Readers by W. A. (William Albert) McIntyre

Here I showed myself a perfectly wise man, for I only prophesied because I knew.
— from The Making of a Saint by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

I could not pretend to elucidate such mysteries; but it seems to me that in such matters absurdity proves nothing, or, at least, it does not prove that such plots did not exist.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

[1152] Swayne did not hesitate to intimidate such men as Parsons.
— from Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama by Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) Fleming

I shall make a point of recollecting his name.”
— from The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

This, however, is a matter of detail; the main consideration lies in the fact that the impulse to retire to a definite position, to avoid companions, and to live in seclusion, is strongly marked, and produces a type of behaviour similar on the whole to that of the Lapwing.
— from Territory in Bird Life by Henry Eliot Howard

The sudden sense of exposure after the re-established sense of safety came—not to the coarse organization of a criminal but to—the susceptible nerve of a man whose intensest being lay in such mastery and predominance as the conditions of his life had shaped for him.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

I see myself at present from Capella as I was upon the earth 72 years ago, and as I was upon Virgo 172 years ago.
— from Lumen by Camille Flammarion