It is above all necessary that we progress from a purely descriptive meaning of the word "unconscious" to its more systematic meaning; that is, we come to a point where we must call the consciousness or unconsciousness of a psychic process only one of its attributes, an attribute which is, moreover, not necessarily unequivocal.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

With the exception of Gisquette and Liénarde, who turned round from time to time when Gringoire plucked them by the sleeve; with the exception of the big, patient neighbor, no one listened, no one looked at the poor, deserted morality full face.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

malo es; yo quisiera que se levantaran contra ellos las piedras de Orbajosa; pero di mi palabra al 25 gobernador, y hasta ahora yo....
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

et excelsi et prudentia consilioque fidentis; temere autem in acie versari et manu cum hoste confligere immane quiddam et beluarum simile est; sed cum tempus necessitasque postulat, decertandum manu est et mors servituti turpitudinique anteponenda.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I should have liked to be called Prince de Monbart, yet I am only Lebyadkin, derived from a swan.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It never struck him that all this refined simplicity and nobility and wit and personal dignity might possibly be no more than an exquisite artistic polish.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

5 Rey leyó en el triste semblante de su prima deseo muy vivo de hablarle.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

al tristo buco sovra 'l qual pontan tutte l'altre rocce, io premerei di mio concetto il suco piu` pienamente; ma perch'io non l'abbo, non sanza tema a dicer mi conduco; che' non e` impresa da pigliare a gabbo discriver fondo a tutto l'universo, ne' da lingua che chiami mamma o babbo.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Translated from the third edition, and revised by Karl P. Dahlstrom , M.E. Second edition.
— from Wrinkles in Electric Lighting by Vincent Stephen

Poor dear Mamma never would.
— from The Story of the Gadsbys by Rudyard Kipling

If two patrols do meet, and feel constrained to “start something,” the one thing no one ever does is to pull a gun or throw a bomb.
— from The Last Million: How They Invaded France—and England by Ian Hay

Mex. , serie iii., tom. iv., p. 556. 'Macanas, que son vnas palos de media vara de largo, y llanos todos de pedernales agudos, que bastan a partir por medio vn hombre.' Espejo , in Hakluyt's Voy. , tom. iii., pp. 386, 393.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

It is singular, and perhaps significant, that the word eriko , in Greek, ἐρίϗω, whence erica is probably derived, means to break in pieces, to mangle .
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

We hurried homewards, talking of peaks, and glaciers, and passes, of Cauteret and Gavarnie, Mont Perdu and the Pic du Midi; and packed in the same state of pleasant excitement.
— from When Love Calls by Stanley John Weyman

There is no type in Africa south of the equator, or among the aborigines of America, that bears any resemblance to any race in Europe or Asia.—N. [ 143 ] Müller, Handbuch der Physiologie des Menschen , vol.
— from The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Gobineau, Arthur, comte de

I noticed, with some solicitude, that the woods along the friendly shore made one continuous shadow, and that the line of low bushes on the long causeway could scarcely be relieved against them, yet I knew where they ought to be, and the more doubtful I felt about it, the more I put down my doubts, as if they were unreasonable children.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Oh! pourquoi n'ai-je plus de mère?
— from My Memoirs, Vol. II, 1822 to 1825 by Alexandre Dumas