Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

What makes the perverse activity unmistakably sexual, despite all the strangeness of its object, is that the act in perverse satisfaction most frequently is accompanied by a complete orgasm, and by an ejaculation of the genital product.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Cum milite isto præsens, absens ut sies: Dies, noctesque me ames: me desideres: Me somnies: me exspectes: de me cogites:
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

And now, too, a voluminous cloud, which we had long watched in the regions of Hesper, floated out thence, all gorgeous in crimson and gold, and settling in peace above us, sank, day by day, lower and lower, until its edges rested upon the tops of the mountains, turning all their dimness into magnificence, and shutting us up, as if forever, within a magic prison-house of grandeur and of glory.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

The tense is present, in late writers the perfect, as ut sīc dīxerim , Quint.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The junction as a whole may present an uneven, slightly disorganized appearance and there is sometimes a certain amount of macroscopic deformity.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

The midriff and heart-strings do burn and beat very fearfully, and when this vapour or fume is stirred, flieth upward, the heart itself beats, is sore grieved, and faints, fauces siccitate praecluduntur, ut difficulter possit ab uteri strangulatione decerni , like fits of the mother, Alvus plerisque nil reddit, aliis exiguum, acre, biliosum, lotium flavum .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

E. Lee Roake , 399 Quincy Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Stones and soil of Illinois, postmarks, and United States due stamps, for foreign stamps and United States department stamps.
— from Harper's Young People, June 7, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Cum Milite isto præsens, absens ut sies; Dies noctesque me ames: me desideres: Me somnies: me expectes: de me cogites: Me speres: me te oblectes: mecum tota sis: Meus fac sis postremo animus, quando ego sum tuus.”
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. I by John Colin Dunlop

Lord Bacon, in his pregnant aphorisms upon sedition, does not venture on a definition of that indefinable term.
— from William Pitt and the Great War by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

But when we put God our Father in place of the morrow, and know that He comprehends and sees all that we have need of, the peace which passes all understanding settles down upon our spirit, and steals into our eyes, and breathes on our lips, and men perceive even in us why our Father is called "the God of Peace."
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Proverbs by Robert F. (Robert Forman) Horton

Nay, the very fact of the Mira having killed him confers on the victim such holiness that he becomes automatically secure of immediate admission to paradise; and under such desirable conditions who has any cause to object?
— from The Cradle of Mankind; Life in Eastern Kurdistan by Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram

Dear Modely, As it is not my custom to write to men, except on business, of which I never reckoned love, nor the professions of it, any part, I desire you will tell Sir Frederick Fineer, that the only way for him to keep his oath inviolated, is to cease entirely all farther prosecutions of his addresses to me; for as my birth and fortune, as well as my humour, set me above encouraging a secret correspondence with any man, on what pretence soever it may be requested, he may expect, nay, assure himself, that on the next visit he attempts to make me, or letter or message he causes to be left for me, I shall directly acquaint my brothers with the whole story of his courtship; the novelty of which may possibly afford us some diversion.
— from The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Fowler Haywood

All that is required to secure a fine crop is proper attention under skilled direction, for there are no drawbacks from frost, the grower never finding the sturdy greenish purple shoots of yesterday drooping over and destroyed by the morning’s frost.
— from The Khedive's Country by George Manville Fenn