The ego which has been freed of all ethical restraints feels itself in accord with all the demands of the sexual striving, with those demands which have long since been condemned by our aesthetic rearing, demands of such a character that they resist all our moral demands for restraint.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

“The Author’s object in calling public attention to the system would be very imperfectly fulfilled, if he did not state now, in his own person, emphatically and earnestly, that Mr. Squeers and his school are faint and feeble pictures of an existing reality, purposely subdued and kept down lest they should be deemed impossible.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

This gun had an excellent barrel, made at Brescia, and carrying a ball with the precision of an English rifle; but one day the count broke the stock, and had then cast the gun aside.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Annette obeyed, and Emily returned to the agonizing considerations, that had assailed her before, but which she, at length, endeavoured to sooth by a new remark.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Examples of melody doubled in five octaves are extremely rare; in such cases the strings participate in the process.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

A day may come when clocks, which certainly at the present time are not diminishing in bulk, will be superseded owing to the universal use of watches, in which case they will become as extinct as ichthyosauri, while the watch, whose tendency has for some years been to decrease in size rather than the contrary, will remain the only existing type of an extinct race.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

The declining vitality of modern Europe formulates its social ideals in its decaying instincts: and these ideals are all so like those of old and effete races, that they might be mistaken for one another.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

17.] made in the Window, and with two parallel Prisms ABC and αβγ placed at those holes (one at each) refracting those two beams of Light to the opposite Wall of the Chamber, in such manner that the two colour'd Images PT and MN which they there painted were joined end to end and lay in one straight Line, the red end T of the one touching the blue end M of the other.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

Good opinion , Approbation, esteem, regard, favorable opinion, golden opinion.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

Within easy reach are the exquisite scenes of an enchanted region—that of the Italian lakes.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 1 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

It would seem as if this removed all necessity for supposing the existence of an extinct race to explain the numerous remains, collectively known as Mound Builders' works.
— from The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races by Emory Adams Allen

These great differences of view, object, and expectation render it difficult for those who hold them to pursue the same line of conduct.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

They struggled at fearful odds, and every risk, against the fate of their country.
— from Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Thomas Osborne Davis

American judges, basing their opinions on outgrown decisions of the British House of Lords, have declared that "industrial injuries" include only those afflictions of an accidental nature whose cause can be ascribed to a definite point of time, and have thus almost universally barred even from the occasional and expensive relief of employers' liability the victims of such typical maladies as the match maker's "phossy jaw," the lead worker's "wrist-drop" and painter's colic, the boiler maker's deafness, the glass worker's cataract, the potter's palsy, the hatter's shakes, and the compressed air worker's bends.
— from The Survey, Volume XXX, Number 1, April 5, 1913 by Various

After this period of vigorous activity there followed two years of almost entire repose.
— from Studies in Modern Music, Second Series Frederick Chopin, Antonin Dvořák, Johannes Brahms by W. H. (William Henry) Hadow

The stout little head of the old and extremely respectable business firm looked across at the jubilant little man, who for many a year had conducted the affairs of the firm in Portugal and Spain, as if he considered him mad.
— from With Wellington in Spain: A Story of the Peninsula by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

However that may be, Don Francisco’s mule stood as if its feet had been nailed to the road, till the approach of the traveller set it once more into a gallop, on which, as it appeared, the gallop of the pursuer, whose course seemed fleeter than that of an earthly rider, gained fast, and in a few moments a singular figure rode close beside Don Francisco.
— from Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 4 (of 4) by Charles Robert Maturin

While a low rate of charges would pay fair dividends on the actual cost of the roads, yet in order to pay dividends on their "watered" stock, and interest on their bonds, oppressive and extortionate rates must be charged and collected.
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud