Whereupon, I whispered him in the ear, that he should rise, under pretence of putting us out of the room, and after a jesting manner pull my nightgown from my shoulders—we were of much about the same height— throw it over his own, and there keep it till he had performed what I had appointed him to do, which was, that when we were all gone out of the chamber, he should withdraw to make water, should three times repeat such and such words, and as often do such and such actions; that at every of the three times, he should tie the ribbon I put into his hand about his middle, and be sure to place the medal that was fastened to it, the figures in such a posture, exactly upon his reins, which being done, and having the last of the three times so well girt and fast tied the ribbon that it could neither untie nor slip from its place, let him confidently return to his business, and withal not forget to spread my gown upon the bed, so that it might be sure to cover them both.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But it had not stirred from its place.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

The system was not secular, for it primarily was devoted [ 275 ] to the teaching of religious doctrine.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

This fold or furrow may be seen in all the photographs, and is very characteristic of the expression of a crying child; though a nearly similar fold is produced in the act of laughing or Smiling.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

But to be truthful, when we disclose in a dream the wish for the death of a mother or sister we need seldom find it puzzling and may trace its origin easily to early childhood, often enough, also, to the propinquity of later years.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

This coincidence is not strange, for infantile phobias are not only the prototypes but the direct prerequisite and prelude to later phobias, which are grouped with the anxiety hysterias.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Regularly, it brings full-text news stories from Inter Press Service, regional news agencies, and newspapers/radio.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

The Huns shall never set foot in Prince Edward Island as long as I can handle a pitchfork," declared Susan, looking, and feeling quite equal to routing the entire German army single-handed.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

'No, Sir; for, in proportion to his size, he has strength: and your argument would prove, that a good bull-dog may be as small as a mouse.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

----cruciat comes improbus ipsos Assidui metus atque timor, suspectáque ijsdem Omnia sunt: hinc insidias, hinc dira venena Concipiunt, soli nec possunt ire nec audent, Nec sine fas illis prægustatore comesse.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (07 of 12) Iohn the Yongest Sonne of Henrie the Second by Raphael Holinshed

Bark of trunk not white, usually dark colored, not separating freely into papery layers; twigs with more or less wintergreen taste; leaves solitary or in pairs, aromatic.
— from Michigan Trees: A Handbook of the Native and Most Important Introduced Species by Charles Herbert Otis

Deep in his heart that little vision of Thérèse in his home, loved and cared for, had never stirred from its place.
— from Unawares: A Story of an Old French Town by Frances Mary Peard

The truth about Tirpitz, and all that that accursed name stands for, is personified in the loathsome Satyr of the Sea portrayed in this cartoon.
— from Kultur in Cartoons With accompanying notes by well-known English writers by Louis Raemaekers

In all but technical form the imminence of war had been announced, when, under the influence of diplomatists and Ministers about him, and of a financial panic that followed his address to the Austrian ambassador, the irresolute mind of Napoleon shrank from its purpose, and months more of suspense were imposed upon Italy and Europe, to be terminated at last not by any effort of Napoleon's will but by the rash and impolitic action of Austria itself.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

She shall never set foot in Paris as long as I live.
— from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 10 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

[509] There is also a manuscript in the Library of the American Philosophical [315] Society, written in the middle of the last century, describing the visit of a missionary to the Payaguas, at that time resident near Santa Fé in Paraguay.
— from The American Race A Linguistic Classification and Ethnographic Description of the Native Tribes of North and South America by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

We who were strangers in this distraught land were not saved from its persecutions and I personally lived through them.
— from Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski