But in modern Spiritualism conditions are altogether different in most cases, and ‘mediums’ instead of controlling with an iron will, as a magician does, spirits which become manifest in séances , surrender entirely their will-power and whole personality to them.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

When land was made, in some safe estuary, their galleys were drawn up on shore, a convenient distance beyond highwater mark, where they formed a rude camp, watch-fires were lighted, sentinels set, and the fearless adventurers slept as soundly as if under their own roofs, in their own country.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Your monody is so superlatively excellent, that I can only wish it perfect, which I can't help feeling it is not quite.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Charles Lamb

And the man on guard at the "firing-step," 'Mid star-shells shimmering down, Can think of his home—where the four winds meet In some sheltered English town.
— from Winning a Cause: World War Stories by John G. (John Gilbert) Thompson

What's more I saw Sir Edgar, too, and that frightened me!
— from The Riddle of the Purple Emperor by Mary E. Hanshew

Poetry lowered his camera, and just that minute I saw something else that made me stare and in fact startled me so that for a jiffy I was almost as much excited as I had been when the fierce old mad old mother bear had been trying to kill Little Jim right at that very place where we were about a year and a half ago.
— from Shenanigans at Sugar Creek by Paul Hutchens

Bet lived once more in Sparrow Street, earning thereby Mother Bunch's contempt, and a queer, puzzled look from Hester Wright, who would not forsake her, but who certainly failed to understand either her or her motive.
— from A Girl of the People by L. T. Meade

The most important single step ever taken towards a knowledge of the physics of light, and incidentally towards a knowledge of visual sensations, was Newton's analysis of white light into the spectrum.
— from Psychology: A Study Of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth

By its presence to the mind it sets something else (the members of the body) moving.
— from Aristotle by A. E. (Alfred Edward) Taylor