On my return to Dresden the realisation of my complete loneliness came over me for the first time with full consciousness, as I could not help knowing that with the loss of my mother every natural bond of union was loosened with my brothers and sisters, each of whom was taken up with his or her own family affairs.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Pope’s-eye , a peculiar little part in a leg of mutton, much esteemed by lovers of that joint.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

It will take the strenuous labor of many months, even years, to show that the symptoms in a case of neurotic break-down have their meaning, serve a purpose, and result from the fortunes of the patient.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Fare ye well at once; my bosom is full of kindness; and I am yet so near the manners of my mother that, upon the least occasion more, mine eyes will tell tales of me.
— from Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare

Fare ye well at once; my bosom is full of kindness, and I am yet so near the manners of my mother that, upon the least occasion more, mine eyes will tell tales of me.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

His infernal Conductor was still by his side, and eyed him with a look of mingled malice, exultation, and contempt.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Instead of retreating with his whole command on the main army, to tell the story of superior forces encountered, he deployed his cavalry on foot, leaving only mounted men enough to take charge of the horses.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

As for the cheap-Jack fellows, let our master make 'em pay toll.
— from The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Richard Clynton

He has a great look of my mother, especially his eyes; they are just like hers."
— from A Crooked Path: A Novel by Mrs. Alexander

This reminiscence, moreover, which springs up into the light of my memory every time I think of Don Miguel de Unamuno, has to my mind a further value in that in it the image of Don Miguel does not appear as evoked by one man, but by many, though many of one species, many who in depth are but one man, one type, the Welsh divine.
— from Tragic Sense Of Life by Miguel de Unamuno

That journey left no recollection on my mind, and the only trace of it I can find is in a letter of my mother, entrusting a deed to her lawyer during her absence.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. I, 1802 to 1821 by Alexandre Dumas

It was not until three days later that she found out from her father the fact of Roden’s having been to call (nominally) upon the lamb of Miss Mary Erroll.
— from Virginia of Virginia: A Story by Amélie Rives

I remember little of my mother except that once she tried to keep an overseer from whipping me, and the lash cut across her own face, and her blood fell over me.’
— from Acres of Diamonds: Our Every-day Opportunities by Russell H. Conwell

Amundsen's people had about 120 dogs and a hard lot of men, mostly expert ski-runners.
— from South with Scott by Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, baron