Everything is home-like and good, and yet, I know not why, I long for rest and peace; I can scarcely express what I feel.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Those from Penom-Peuh went to Udong to protect their brethren in that place in their flight; and when all were united in one body, they descended the river, and passed into Cochin China.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

This reasoning a priori is confirmed by experience.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

You are really a particularly intelligent, competent person, and it's time for you to call a halt to this nonsense and be the woman you were meant to be!
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

Now, what is the cause of this difference in the fortune of the philosopher and the mathematician, the former of whom follows the path of conceptions, while the latter pursues that of intuitions, which he represents, a priori, in correspondence with his conceptions?
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

* I refer to this review at present, in consequence of information having been given me, that the inuendo of my "potential infidelity," grounded on one passage of my first Lay Sermon, has been received and propagated with a degree of credence, of which I can safely acquit the originator of the calumny.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In the morning he said angrily: "It is enough to make one ashamed before the maid who does the beds," and took a bottle of red ink that happened to be in the room, and poured its contents on the sheet, but not on the place where such a stain would have been justifiable.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Had he been rich, this form of ruin would have mattered nothing; but the young men of 1865 were none of them rich; all had to earn a living; yet they had reached high positions of responsibility and power in camps and Courts, without a dollar of their own and with no tenure of office.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The check catches the tail of the hammer head during its descent when the key is raised, and prevents it coming back violently on the carriage and rest.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

Each one of us in his opinions, and his conduct, in matters of dress, amusement, religion, and politics, is compelled to obtain the support of a class, of a herd within the herd.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

In this respect they stand in the same order as the metals of the iron series; nickel is more fusible and whiter than cobalt and iron, so also palladium is whiter and more fusible than rhodium and ruthenium, and platinum is comparatively more fusible and whiter than iridium or osmium.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Careful attention ought to be given to the formulating and writing out of the generalizations reached by the class, for in these written summaries the results are preserved in compact form.
— from Practical Exercises in Elementary Meteorology by Robert DeCourcy Ward

Lazarus, a small colored assistant whom we had recently acquired, peered in cautiously (the sulphur fumes being still suggestive, with a good many bees flying), and I sent him for something to put the honey in—something large, I said—a dishpan.
— from Dwellers in Arcady: The Story of an Abandoned Farm by Albert Bigelow Paine

The lead sheath on both the rubber and paper insulated cables is 1 ⁄ 8 -inch thick and the sheath of the former contains 3 per cent of tin.
— from Electric Transmission of Water Power by Alton D. Adams

A man would be susceptible to reason and proof; I could convince him.
— from Kent Knowles: Quahaug by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

In his twelfth year he entered into a scheme for representing a play in conjunction with his schoolfellows; but instead of seeking his Dramatis Personae among the heroes of Homer, as Pope had done in his boyhood, Jones, by a remarkable effort of memory, committed to paper what he retained of Shakspeare's Tempest, which he had read at his mother's; and himself sustained the part of Prospero in that Comedy.
— from Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Henry Francis Cary

While Madge, her father, and Captain Jules were trying to see how they could bear the miracle and shock of their great happiness, a small, dark object darted into the room and planted its claws in Madge’s hair.
— from Madge Morton's Victory by Amy D. V. Chalmers

They constitute the basis of a recent and excellent work [30] by M. Coquelin, who quotes largely from that of Mr. Carey, declaring that our countryman has, "in the investigation of causes and effects, succeeded better than the English inquirers," and had, as early as 1838, "clearly shown the primary causes of the perturbations recurring almost periodically in commerce and currency."
— from The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

These seemingly diverse provinces of continental rise, marginal escarpments, enclosed marginal basins, marginal trenches, and outer ridges are placed in category III because of their similarity in position with respect to the continents and ocean floor and because of other similarities shown in the deeper structure of the continental rise.
— from The Floors of the Ocean: 1. The North Atlantic Text to accompany the physiographic diagram of the North Atlantic by Bruce C. Heezen