"Every psychical phenomenon is characterized by what the scholastics of the Middle Ages called the intentional (also the mental) inexistence of an object, and what we, although with not quite unambiguous expressions, would call relation to a content, direction towards an object (which is not here to be understood as a reality), or immanent objectivity.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Legree drew in a long breath; and, suppressing his rage, took Tom by the arm, and, approaching his face almost to his, said, in a terrible voice, “Hark ’e, Tom!—ye think, ’cause I’ve let you off before, I don’t mean what I say; but, this time, I’ve made up my mind , and counted the cost.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Something transpired which postponed my trip; but a steamer employed by the government was passing a point some twenty or more miles above Cairo, the next day, when a section of rebel artillery with proper escort brought her to.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

If, in this instance the propaganda analysis is to be a one-man enterprise in a small country or area in time of peace, the one man can collect all the different kinds of samples in March and can then spend several months trying to see how they add up.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

It was from Lady Middleton, announcing their arrival in Conduit Street the night before, and requesting the company of her mother and cousins the following evening.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

But the question here, is not what any Christian made a Law, or Canon to himself, (which he might again reject, by the same right he received it;) but what was so made a Canon to them, as without injustice they could not doe any thing contrary thereunto.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

A water-nix lived down below, who said, "Now I have got you, now you shall work hard for me!" and carried them off with her.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Now it so happens I want very much to fuck his mistress, and we have made a compact that if this scene is likely to excite him, we are to come to your peepholes, and while he is thus enabled to fuck my woman I shall fuck his.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Nay, let's seek him; Then do we sin against our own estate When we may profit meet and come too late.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Indoors the dull monotony of a two-months-old quarrel and a growing heartache made a combination that carried even less of cheer.
— from Across the Years by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Pompeius, whose slow mind and cautious temper could never have started such a policy, saw from Rome what Lucullus’s fighting was leading up to.
— from Ancient Rome: The Lives of Great Men by Mary Agnes Hamilton

"The perfessor has written me a coupla times about him.
— from Flowing Gold by Rex Beach

In 1052 he removed the celebrated iron pillar, on which the eulogy of Chandragupta Vikramāditya is incised, from its original position, probably at Mathura, and set it up in Delhi as an adjunct to a group of temples from which the Muhammadans afterwards constructed the great mosque.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

The crucible, whether of porcelain or iron, in which the final fusion is made, also contributes to contaminate the metal.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

We said to the Southern people, "The colored men are citizens; their rights must be respected; they are voters, they must be allowed to vote; they were and are our friends, and we are their protectors.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Departing from these we went further for eight miles and came to a people called Marroni.
— from The Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555) by Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century