At the same time we know that, instead of staring at it in this entranced and senseless way, we may rally our activity in a moment, and locate, class, [Pg 482] compare, count, and judge it.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

“To go the whole HOG ” is frequently altered by those people who believe there is wit in circumlocution, into “the entire animal,” or “the complete swine!”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

In the evening, at preparation, he pulled out his pens from his desk, arranged his small belongings, and carefully ruled his paper.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The bands of the Chopunnish who reside above the junction of Lewis's river and the Kooskooske bury their dead in the earth and place stones on the grave.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In Arabia, in the month of November, it is concealed during the first watch of the night, but may be seen during the second 491 ; in Meroë it is seen, for a short time, in the evening, at the solstice, and it is visible at day-break, for a few days before the rising of Arcturus 492 .
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

You can search I'M-GUIDE for information sources, send email inquiries to ECHO, and more.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Duane's a real science fiction fan -- I first met him at the World Science Fiction Convention in Toronto in 2003 -- and it shows in the eclectic and informed choices on display at the store.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

The apprehension of an otherwise formless and unpurposive object gives merely the occasion, through which we become conscious of such a state; the object is thus employed as subjectively purposive, but is not judged as such in itself and on account of its form (it is, as it were, a species finalis accepta, non data ).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Speculative dogmas of religion, the present occasions of such furious dispute, could not possibly be conceived or admitted in the early ages of the world; when mankind, being wholly illiterate, formed an idea of religion more suitable to their weak apprehension, and composed their sacred tenets of such tales chiefly as were the objects of traditional belief, more than of argument or disputation.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

She received them gracefully, calling each by name, for they were men high in the esteem and service of her grandfather, and she knew them well.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

He opened a breach in the earth at Tequendama, through which the waters of the flood escaped, precisely as we have seen them disappearing through the crevice in the earth near Bambyce, in Greece.
— from Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly

In the evening a magnificent banquet was given [Pg 151] by the Viceroy and the city was a blaze of light and the scene of general festivity.
— from The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins

The sand and alkali ruin everything, and are apt to inflame the eyes and nose.
— from A Truthful Woman in Southern California by Kate Sanborn

It was more by the power of his pen in "The Examiner," and by his counsels and influence, than by any other means, that the Tories were enabled to turn out of office the long-triumphant Whigs, and, by the peace of Utrecht, put a stop to the triumphs of Marlborough on the Continent.
— from Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 1 (of 2) by William Howitt

Guly threw himself into the extended arms, completely overcome with his emotions.
— from The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans by Mary Ashley Townsend

All the barbed-wire entanglements in front of the first-line trenches appeared to be cut, mangled, twisted into balls, beaten back into the earth and exhumed again, leaving only a welt of crater-spotted ground in front of the chalky contour of the first-line trenches which had been mashed and crushed out of shape.
— from My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer

So complete is this environment and interlacing that you cannot enter the city from any direction without encountering a net-work of tracks.
— from Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada by Charles Dudley Warner

'Come, Colonel Bernheim,' she said, looking me straight in the eyes, and smiling sweetly enough to turn most any man's head, 'you want to refuse to let me see the Marshal, but, you know perfectly well, you dare not.
— from The Colonel of the Red Huzzars by John Reed Scott

It is to expect an impossibility.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

They are torture by heat—by a lighted torch or red hot charcoal or burning tongs, or by boiling oil, which sometimes was poured into the ears and nose; torture by cold; suspension by the wrists, by the feet, by the hair, by the moustache; confinement in a cell containing quicklime; blinding by the bhela nut; placing on a bed of thorns; rubbing the face on the ground; employing the stocks; tying the limbs in constrained postures; placing stinging or annoying insects upon the skin; flogging with stinging nettles; sticking pins or thorns or slithers of bamboo under the nails; beating the ankles and other joints with a soft mallet—a devilish invention from Madras.
— from Mysteries of Police and Crime, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Arthur Griffiths