In such cases, one goes far afield from the problem of sound relations and resemblance effects, and can cite, instead of these, the fact that opposites have an obviously close relationship to each other, and have particularly close relations in the psychology of association.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Covert made no reply except a cool, contemptuous laugh, which stung the excited young man to double fury.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

With this, she held her peace, weeping, and Currado said to his lady, 'And thou, mistress, how wouldst thou take it, were I to present thee with such a son-in-law?' The lady replied, 'Even a common churl, so he pleased you, would please me, let alone one of these, [109] who are men of gentle birth.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

He says: My object has been to attempt to show the numerical relation which poverty, misery, and depravity bear to regular earnings and comparative comfort, and to describe the general conditions under which each class lives.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Si une langue commune est appréciable, elle ne remplace en aucun cas cette nécessité.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

THE STORMING OF A CITY Pûblius plûrîs diês in Germâniâ morâtus 1 in Galliam rediit, et ad Caesaris castra sê contulit.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Pronouns, adjectives and adverbs, which are related to each other as corresponding demonstratives, interrogatives, relatives, etc., are called correlatives .
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

THE STORMING OF A CITY Pūblius plūrīs diēs in Germāniā morātus 1 in Galliam rediit, et ad Caesaris castra sē contulit.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

It was enjoined that the hosteller, or brother in charge of the hospitium, should have “facility of expression, elegant manners, and a respectable bringing up; and if he have no substance to bestow he may at any rate exhibit a cheerful countenance and agreeable conversation, for friends are multiplied by agreeable words.”
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

Michigan University was the first to act when, in 1878, the Regents established a chair called the "Theory and Art of Teaching."
— from On the Firing Line in Education by Adoniram Judson Ladd

Does any one really expect a community can long exist, favoured by a wise and justice-dispensing Providence, in which such things are coolly attempted—ay, and coolly done?
— from The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

Then the conversation turned to Jack’s radio experiments, and Captain Cornell, who was really interested despite his humorous lamentation that he couldn’t understand anything at all about the subject, asked numerous questions which Jack was kept busy answering.
— from The Radio Boys with the Border Patrol by Gerald Breckenridge

It is carried out in direct current machines generally by independent regulators embodying a controlling coil with plunger or some equivalent electro-magnetic device inserted in the main circuit and necessarily of low resistance.
— from The Standard Electrical Dictionary A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice of Electrical Engineering by T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor) Sloane

He was himself unmasked, and wore a rich Grecian head-dress, a tunic of dark velvet, trimmed with rich ermine, and clasped close about the throat with checks of gold.
— from The Duke's Prize; a Story of Art and Heart in Florence by Maturin Murray Ballou

Moreover, the civilian head of the navy had to provide for keeping the ships in a state of reasonable efficiency, and Congress could not hopelessly misbehave itself about the navy without the fact at once becoming evident.
— from Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt

He engraved the head and the lettering, but the beautiful curves forming the background of the stamp were "engine-turned" by means of a Rose engine, a contrivance consisting of a series of moving wheels which produced curved lines in geometric pattern.
— from Peeps at Postage Stamps by Stanley C. (Stanley Currie) Johnson

Indeed I cannot conceive how any man who has read English authors, can c
— from Dissertations on the English Language, with Notes, Historical and Critical; to Which is Added, by Way of Appendix, an Essay on a Reformed Mode of Spelling, With Dr. Franklin's Arguments on that Subject by Noah Webster

During this excursion, we did not see a leaf of flax, or any herb whatever; the ground, although a rich and deep soil, being quite bare, which is rather extraordinary, as Captain Cook says that the flax plant is rather more luxuriant here than at New Zealand.
— from An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter