These experiences, when after the war we can sift them all out, may allow us to form better ideas as to the etiology of many of the psychoses, and the great war may thus prove a gigantic experimental reagent which will aid in solving some of the major problems of mental hygiene.
— from Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 by Elmer Ernest Southard

"It will be pain and grief enough," rejoined the gipsy, "for one who has never in his life been debarred from turning his steps in whatsoever direction he thought fit--who has never been cutoff from the sight of nature, and the breath of the free air, since his eyes were first opened upon God's heaven and earth, and the breath of life was breathed into his nostrils--it will be pain and grief enough for him to be thrust into some dark and gloomy dungeon, perhaps under ground, or, at all events, looking into some dull stone-built court, where he can see nothing on any side but the hateful walls that keep him in, and the sly, dastard faces of those that watch him."
— from The Gipsy: A Tale (Vols I & II) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

If the thoughts of the peonas —now gathered in a murmuring, gesticulating mob that showed principally as glistening eyeballs rolling like foam in a sea of brown faces along the wall—a composite of their thought would have shown a mad passion to rend and maim, mutilate and torture, bred of their natural savagery aggravated by centuries of mistreatment under Spanish-Mexican rule.
— from Over the Border: A Novel by Herman Whitaker

The little party paused and glanced excitedly round, their weapons ready to fire at the companions whom the man was addressing.
— from To Win or to Die: A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze by George Manville Fenn

She stood up, "I must go home," she said, "I have got to pack and get everything ready before to-morrow."
— from To Love by Margaret Peterson

Should one other hundred pounds make the difference of procuring a good editor, request earnestly that you will raise 500 pounds.)
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

Notwithstanding the utmost exertions of the officers, a pause took place at good escopette range, and a considerable loss was experienced.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 1 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens