When, either in man or in the lower animals, these regions are destroyed, a peculiar degenerative change known as secondary sclerosis is found to extend downwards through the white fibrous substance of the brain in a perfectly definite manner, affecting certain distinct strands which pass through the inner capsule, crura, and pons, into the anterior pyramids of the medulla oblongata, and from thence (partly crossing to the other side) downwards into the anterior (direct) and lateral (crossed) columns of the spinal cord.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

I want to make a confession, dear sisters.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

This done I went to the authorities of my college, and, having told them as much of the story as I considered desirable, which was not very much, after considerable difficulty succeeded in persuading them to stretch a point, and, in the event of my having obtained a fellowship, which I was pretty certain I had done, allow me to have the child to live with me.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

You claim the rights of a mother: the right to call me fool and child; to speak to me as no woman in authority over me at college dare speak to me; to dictate my way of life; and to force on me the acquaintance of a brute whom anyone can see to be the most vicious sort of London man about town.
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

A] make a continuous droning sound.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Id, quod occasionem dedit, ut duae istae diversae voluntatis propensiones pro duobus diversis appetitibus sumerentur, est, quod saepissime unus alteri opponatur, quia propositum, quod mens superaedificat propriis suis perceptionibus, non semper consentit cum cogitationibus, quae menti a corporis dispositione suggeruntur, per quam saepe obligatur ad aliquid volendum, dum ratio ejus earn aliud optare facit.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

I said, "O Soul, make merry and carouse, Dear soul, for all is well".
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

I took my Lady Pen home, and her daughter Pegg, and merry we were; and after dinner I made my wife show them her pictures, which did mad Pegg Pen, who learns of the same man and cannot do so well.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Then the Deep Woods People all said there was never anybody who knew so much and could do so many things as Mr. Jack Rabbit, and how proud they all were to have him in their midst, and Mr. Rabbit showed them how to do all the tricks he knew, and they all practised them and tried them on each other until Mr. Crow said he must look after the supper, and Mr. 'Possum ran right off after an armful of stove-wood, and everybody helped with everything there was to do, for they were having such a good time and were so hungry.
— from The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book Being a continuation of stories about the Hollow Tree and Deep Woods people by Albert Bigelow Paine

Mortal thought does not at once catch the 349:27 higher meaning, and can do so only as thought is edu- cated up to spiritual apprehension.
— from Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

They follow, however, not the Gender of the Antecedent, but the sex of the creature signified by the Antecedent, in those words in which Sex and Gender disagree, as, an gobhlan-gaoithe mar an ceudn' do sholair nead dh'i fein the swallow too hath provided a nest for herself , Psal. lxxxiv.
— from Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart

By the same post Flora wrote to Marie and Colonel de St. Severan, enclosing Lord Barkley's respective letters to each of them; but the one addressed to Colonel de St. Severan, being mixed up among several other letters, had escaped his notice until he read her note to Marie, in which she spoke of having also written to him.
— from Flora Adair; or, Love Works Wonders. Vol. 2 (of 2) by A. M. Donelan

In the history of Florence in the early part of the XVIth century Piero di Braccio Martelli is frequently mentioned as Commissario della Signoria .
— from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by da Vinci Leonardo

She drew her hand gently from mine, and calling DeVare, said— “Mr. DeVare, let’s take those seats by the window; I have a fuss to make up with you, too.”
— from Sea-gift: A Novel by Edwin W. (Edwin Wiley) Fuller

See PROCTER, B.W. Cowley, Abraham, quoted "Cowper, To the Poet" Crabbe, George, Lamb's adaptation of D Da Vinci, Leonardo, poems upon Day, Matthew, Lamb's epigram on Dedication of Lamb's "WORKS" to Coleridge of Lamb's "POEMS," 1797, to his sister Dedication of Lamb's "ALBUM VERSES" to Moxon Defoe, Daniel "Dialogue between a Mother and Child" "Dick Strype" "Divine Subjects, Fancy Employed on" Dix, Margaret, Lamb's epitaph on Dockwra, Tom, of Widford Dorrell, William, the swindler "Douglas, The Tomb of" Drake, Onesimus, of the East India House "Dramatic Fragment" Druitt, Mary, Lamb's epitaph upon "Dying Lover" E East India House epigrams Englishman's Magazine , Lamb's contributions to Epigrams possibly by Lamb Epilogue to Godwin's "ANTONIO" to Siddons' "TIME'S A TELL-TALE" to Kenney's "DEBTOR AND CREDITOR" to an amateur performance of "RICHARD II" to Knowles' "THE WIFE" "Epitaph on a Dog" "on a Young Lady" Examiner , The, Lamb's contributions to "Existence, Considered in Itself, no Blessing" F "Faces, The Old Familiar" "Family Name, The" "Fancy Employed on Divine Subjects" "Farewell to Tobacco, A" "FARMER, PRISCILLA, POEMS ON THE DEATH OF" Fast Day, Lamb's epigram on "FAULKENER," by Godwin "Female Orators, The" Fenwick, John, editor of The Albion Field, family, the poems to Mrs., Lamb's grandmother "Free Thoughts on Several Eminent Composers" Frend, Sophia, Lamb's poems to, Frere, John Hookham, Lamb's epigram on "Friend, To a" "From the Latin" Fryer, Miss, Lamb's poem for G George IV., Lamb's epigrams on Gifford, William, Lamb's sonnet upon Gillray, James, his cartoons "Gipsy's Malison, The" Godwin, William, his "ANTONI" his "FAULKENER" Goethe on Lamb's "Family Name" "Going or Gone" "Grandame, The" GRAY, ROSAMUND, quoted H Hamilton of Bangor quoted Hardy, Lieutenant, Lamb's poem to "Harmony in Unlikeness" Haydon, B.R., Lamb's verses to Hazlitt, William, on Lamb in the country "Helen" "Hercules Pacificatus" Hessey, Archdeacon, his memories of Lamb "Hester" Hogsflesh, a well-known name Hone, William, Lamb's poem to his publications, Lamb's contributions to Hood, Thomas, his child's death "House-keeper, The" Hunt, Leigh, Lamb's poem to on "Composed at Midnight" and Lamb's poem, "To T.L.H." Thornton, Lamb's poem to Hutchinson, Mr. Thomas, on JOHN WOODVIL "Hypochondriacus"
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Charles Lamb

The misty uncertainty, the cloud-like indistinctness that used of old to envelop all ministerial action, converting Downing Street into a sort of Olympus, and making a small mythology out of Precis-writers, is all gone, all dispersed.
— from Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Charles James Lever

He called the Catholics by this name, which he made out of the name of a philosopher of the Middle Ages called Duns Scotus.
— from Stories That Words Tell Us by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman) O'Neill