These phantasies possess psychological reality in contrast to physical reality, and so we gradually come to understand that in the realm of neuroses the psychological reality is the determining factor .
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

From the association's secretary each member received a package of more or less gorgeous blanks, printed like a billhead, on handsome paper, properly ruled in columns; a bill-head worded something like this— These blanks were filled up, day by day, as the voyage progressed, and deposited in the several wharf-boat boxes.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Here, take my muff, and, do you hear, good man; Now give me pearl, and carry you my fan, &c. [6053] ———poscit pallam, redimicula, inaures; Curre, quid hic cessas?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

the civil power piously renouncing its claims in favour of the religious power.
— from Truth [Vérité] by Émile Zola

She says, “Let the pupil practise riding in circles to the right, sitting upright, but bending a little to the horse’s motion, following his nose with her eye; beginning with a walk, proceed to a slow trot, increasing the action as she gains firmness in the saddle.
— from Horsemanship for Women by Theodore H. (Theodore Hoe) Mead

I am sorry that I am not a lawyer, and, therefore, cannot explain the point definitely, but the other provision was simply to make it possible to bring suit and recover a lump sum in case there was any default in the periodic payments required in cases of disability.
— from Proceedings, Third National Conference Workmen's Compensation for Industrial Accidents by National Conference on Workmen's Compensation for Industrial Accidents

Then, feeling a keen sympathy for the poor persecuted rabbit, I charged into the midst of the pack, and by dint of plunging up and down among the startled company, and striking at them with my whip, I succeeded in dispersing them.
— from Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by James Conway Walter

CODE PLEADING, PRACTICE & REMEDIES IN COURTS OF RECORD IN CIVIL CASES IN THE WESTERN STATES, with forms.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1965 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

All these languages sprang up and grew and diverged, before they were finally separated; some retained one form, others another, so that even the apparently most distant members of the same family might, on certain points, preserve relics in common which were lost in all the other dialects, and vice versâ .
— from Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4 Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

"In all the houses receiving only private patients, restraint is considered to be occasionally necessary, and beneficial to the patients....
— from Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke

The fruit is first prepared and washed and then blanched, and finally packed practically raw in containers, which are next filled with cold water and then sealed.
— from Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall