[80] states the matter explicitly: “The blush always depends upon a far-reaching association-process in which the complete saturation of the contemporaneously-excited nervous elements constricts the orderly movement of the mental process, inasmuch as here also the simplicity of contemporaneously-occurring activities of the brain determines the scope of the function of association.”
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Those who entered into any contest with him, when beaten, used to ascribe their defeat to his immense bodily strength, which no exertions could tire out.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

For the time, we must think of nothing else, can think of nothing else, indeed.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

[For example, we might say “Let y mean ‘English,’ so that y′ will mean ‘foreign’”, and we might suppose that we had subdivided “old books” into the two Classes whose Differentiæ are “English” and “foreign”, and had assigned the North- West Cell to “old English books”, and the North- East Cell to “old foreign books.”]
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

About noon had news by Mr. Wood that Butler, our chief witness against Field, was sent by him to New England contrary to our desire, which made me mad almost; and so Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Pen, and I dined together at Trinity House, and thither sent for him to us and told him our minds, which he seemed not to value much, but went away.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

So Westmar entered the palace with his men-at-arms, and said: "Now thou must needs either consent to our entreaties, or meet in battle us who entreat thee.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Hence, men of everyday fortune do not need entrance courts, tablina, or atriums built in grand style, because such men are more apt to discharge their social obligations by going round to others than to have others come to them.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

There are no external chimneys; they open direct from the rear wall.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

He is no head of a school to lay down a body of doctrine for students; he does not even contemplate that others should read what he writes.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

It is surely evident that such elaborate dramatic personages were not extemporary creations thrown off in the heat of the pen.
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

I was obliged to tell the Nassick boys that they must either work or return, it was absurd to have them eating up our goods, and not even carrying their own things, and I would submit to it no more: five of them carry bales, and two the luggage of the rest.
— from The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by David Livingstone

And it's not exactly courtesy to our hostess to bring in provender from the outside."
— from Over the Pass by Frederick Palmer

“To introduce as few alterations as possible into the Text of the Authorised Version consistently with faithfulness”; but, owing to the great difference between the two languages, the Hebrew and the Greek, the application of the rule was necessarily different, and the results not easily comparable the one with the other.
— from Addresses on the Revised Version of Holy Scripture by C. J. (Charles John) Ellicott

Nobody ever comes to our front door," said Marty.
— from Janice Day by Helen Beecher Long

A body of eight thousand brave Englishmen had joined the standard of Philip in the early part of the campaign; [222] and they now eagerly coveted the opportunity for distinction which had been denied them at the battle of St. Quentin, where the fortune of the day was chiefly decided by cavalry.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

I would add that at no period of history, whether among the nations of the ancient Aryan cycle, or in the Semitic civilizations of Asia and Africa—whether in the Græco-Latin world, or in the middle ages and in modern times, have these royal faculties, for which positivism would substitute its dreary nomenclature, ever ceased to operate at the beginning and in the background of all great human creations and of all fruitful work.
— from The Way of Initiation; or, How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds by Rudolf Steiner

Nothing else could throw off that awful smell."
— from Rocky Mountain Boys; Or, Camping in the Big Game Country by St. George Rathborne