A woman eighty-eight years old often saw everything covered with flowers,—otherwise she was quite “well.”
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

It is reported of old Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, when upwards of seventy, that he was surprised by night on a hunting or military expedition.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

After many pauses and many trials of other subjects, Elizabeth could not help reverting once more to the first, and saying: “I am astonished at his intimacy with Mr. Bingley!
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The ethical energy par excellence has to go farther and choose which interest out of several, equally coercive, shall become supreme.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Only one sweeter end can readily be recalled—the delicious death of an Ohio honey-hunter, who seeking honey in the crotch of a hollow tree, found such exceeding store of it, that leaning too far over, it sucked him in, so that he died embalmed.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

After many pauses and many trials of other subjects, Elizabeth could not help reverting once more to the first, and saying, "I am astonished at his intimacy with Mr. Bingley!
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Alasanda or Alasadda therefore, which is here mentioned, will be one of several Eastern cities bearing the name of the great conqueror, most probably Alexandria ad Caucasum .
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

In reply to this we must immediately insist that æsthetic emotion, pure and simple, the pleasure given us by certain lines and masses, and combinations of colors and sounds, is an absolutely sensational experience, an optical or auricular feeling that is primary, and not due to the repercussion backwards of other sensations elsewhere consecutively aroused.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James

“I’m going to ask you, Larkin,” he began, “to write out your resignation as Chairman of our State Executive Committee and withdraw from this race.”
— from The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

"We chased after you last night, when we got out of school," explained Curly, "and we had a dreadful adventure in the corn field with the alligator man," and he told his doggie chum all about it, just as I wrote it for you in the story before this one.
— from Curly and Floppy Twistytail (The Funny Piggie Boys) by Howard Roger Garis

“Oh, nonsense, Alvar; you know we never think of ‘expressions’ when we are angry; and I’m not aware of having had any opportunity of showing either cowardice or courage.”
— from An English Squire by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

As he saw the gold pieces, Gambara shed tears; and then a vague reminiscence of old scientific experiments crossed his mind, and the hapless composer, as he wiped his eyes, spoke these words, which the circumstances made pathetic: "Water is a product of burning."
— from The Works of Honoré de Balzac: About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita, and Other Stories by Honoré de Balzac