How such reaction of the consciousness upon the currents may occur must remain at present unsolved: it is enough for my purpose to have shown that it may not uselessly exist, and that the matter is less simple than the brain-automatists hold.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The Sedan Municipals repent and protest; the Soldiers shout Vive la Nation.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The flight of the Wrights in 1903 opened the door to ever more rapid and powerful ascents into the third dimension.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution by Lynne C. Murphy

I filled the interval in walking softly about my room, and pondering the visitation which had given my plans their present bent.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

He found Holmes leaning languidly against the mantelpiece, resigned and patient, endeavouring to conceal his irrepressible yawns.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

It deprives the party expelled of all the masonic rights and privileges that he ever enjoyed, not only as a member of the lodge from which he has been ejected, but also of all those which were inherent in him as a member of the fraternity at large.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

This name it most probably had in early times (and not more recently, as Pliny says), when it was covered with dense forests, the retreats of serpents and noxious reptiles. 4219 Now known as Skarpanto.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Maria was indeed the pride and delight of them all—perfectly faultless—an angel; and, of course, so surrounded by admirers, must be difficult in her choice: but yet, as far as Mrs. Norris could allow herself to decide on so short an acquaintance, Mr. Rushworth appeared precisely the young man to deserve and attach her.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

I content myself with a death involved within itself, quiet, solitary, and all my own, suitable to my retired and private life; quite contrary to the Roman superstition, where a man was looked upon as unhappy who died without speaking, and who had not his nearest relations to close his eyes.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Ficta voluptatis causa sit proxima veris —Fictions meant to please should have as much resemblance as possible to truth.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

She told herself that there was something dreary and horrible about a state of human worldliness which could thus idolize mere rank and place.
— from The Adventures of a Widow: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

Duchess Just about as much right as pigs have to fly, and the moral— [ The arm of the Duchess begins to tremble and her voice dies down.
— from Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Alice Gerstenberg

And in the history of man's first sin as here given, and in the account of its effects, and in the conduct of God to the sinning pair, I find, not the monster fictions of an immoral and blasphemous theology, but the most important elements of moral, religious, and physical science.
— from Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story by Joseph Barker

My view is that that is the most real and, perhaps, the only possible, the only progress necessary.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I am enjoying my ride, and positively I have not had to use my fly-whisk at all.
— from Thorley Weir by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Lacquered norimono , or palanquins; lacquered bullock carts, drawn by bow-legged black bulls,—these were the conveyances of the great in Old Japan, and these, in minute reproductions, are placed upon the red-covered shelves.
— from Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition by Alice Mabel Bacon

When this was exposed to the action of 246 ground water, the amphibole or pyroxene minerals were changed to serpentine, resulting in a rock composed mostly of serpentine, but retaining the impurities which were in the metamorphic rock, and perhaps adding to them such amphiboles and pyroxenes as were not altered during the hydration process.
— from Field Book of Common Rocks and Minerals For identifying the Rocks and Minerals of the United States and interpreting their Origins and Meanings by Frederic Brewster Loomis

She became, at nineteen, the wife of Stanley Marshall Rinehart, a Pittsburgh physician.
— from When Winter Comes to Main Street by Grant M. (Grant Martin) Overton

But in order to accomplish this object effectually, you must remember and practise the Onslow motto— Festina lente :—you must not be too eager to name your species , but begin first with grouping your collection.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 4 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

Hence the Federal Constitution must receive a practical construction.
— from Our Changing Constitution by Charles W. (Charles Wheeler) Pierson