Ennui is by no means an evil to be lightly esteemed; in the end it depicts on the countenance real despair.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

There is less euphony in the English than in the French designation, Udai ‘ le Gros .’
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

No other fault was found with the discharged saleswomen than that they had been long enough in the employ of the firm to justly expect an increase of salary.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

I little expected, in this enlightened and scientific age, to find a disciple of Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

But when we search a childhood history for the root of such enmity toward the father, we recollect that fear of the father arises because the latter, even in the earliest years, opposes the boy's sex activities, just as he is ordinarily forced to oppose them again, after puberty, for social motives.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Just as children abandon even their most precious toys for the sake of a new one, so they tell only the latest events in their experience.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

“It is three months since we asked the landlord to fix it,” says the oldest son, a very intelligent lad who has learned English in the evening school.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

If you pick up a mossy stone which is lightly embedded in the earth, you will see a number of small animals scuttling away from the unwonted daylight and seeking again the darkness of which you have deprived them.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

I little expected in this enlightened and scientific age to find a disciple of Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The church of Christ no longer existed in the earth.
— from Outlines of Ecclesiastical History by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

"I like 'em in the East," I replied.
— from Ravensdene Court by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

The French suffered considerably by its Consequences; for all the Planters being taken off from their Labour, either in this Expedition, or in watching and securing their Forts and Country, a Famine ensued; and this I find has often happened in Canada , where all the Men, fit to bear Arms, have been employed in such like Expeditions.
— from The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada Which are dependent on the Province of New-York, and are a barrier between the English and the French in that part of the world by Cadwallader Colden

The population at present engaged in agriculture will in times of peace buy up to the practical limits of its purchasing power, and is hardly likely, especially in the early stages of a war, to "consume a part of the products which cannot be disposed of abroad," except in so far as they buy German goods (the production of which the declaration of the war may have seriously impeded), instead of commodities produced abroad.
— from The War and Democracy by John Dover Wilson

(2) In logic, extension is the extent of the application of a general term, that is, the objects collectively which are included under it; thus, the word figure is more extensive than triangle, circle, or parallelogram; European more extensive than French, Frenchman, German, &c. Matter and mind are the most extensive terms of which any definite conception can be formed.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Estremoz to Felspar Volume 4, Part 3 by Various

Again, Where as thou cam’st unto the Word of Love, Even in thine Eyes I saw how Passion strove; That snowy Lawn which covered thy Bed, Me thought lookt white, to see thy cheeke so red, Thy rosye cheeke oft changing in my sight, Yet still was red to see the Lawn so white: xxi
— from An apology for the study of northern antiquities by Elizabeth Elstob