The eager desire, which often seems an indispensable element of the whole state of pleasurable activity, generally involves a similar bias: indeed any strong excitement, in which our thought is concentrated on a single result or group of results—whether it be the excitement of aversion, fear, hope, or suspense—tends to make us inappreciative of alien pleasures and pains alike.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Why, they will not even assent to this, either—that they who do wrong are more wretched than those who suffer wrong, though the proof of this rests on grounds of reason no less strong.'
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Dílì ku apiktahan (apiktaran) ug usa lang ka básu nga ram, One glass of rum isn’t enough to affect me.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

There are also sometimes represented other gods of rain, or attendants.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

And, in detailing the origin of these convulsions, it says:— “The most common causes are ( inter alia ), all emotions of the mind which excite the nervous power, and determine the blood to the head, as joy, anger, religious enthusiasm, excessive desire, &c., or those which greatly depress the nervous influence, as well as diminish and derange the actions of the heart, as fear, terror, anxiety, sadness, distressing intelligence, frightful dreams, &c.—the syphilitic poison and repulsion of gout or rheumatism.”
— from The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer, for the Rugeley Poisonings, which lasted Twelve Days by Anonymous

Take of the Conserve of Woodsorrel four ounces, of the Rob of Goosberries or Rasberries two Ounces , Species Diarrhodon Abbatis two Drams , Confectionis Liberantis one Dram and a half, of Prepar'd Pearl half a Dram , Red Coral prepar'd one Dram, with a sufficient quantity [53] of Syrup of Juice of Citron: Let it be made an Opiate: The Dose is one or two Drams often in a day.
— from A Plain and Easie Method for Preserving (by God's Blessing) Those That Are Well from the Infection of the Plague, or Any Contagious Distemper, in City, Camp, Fleet, Etc., and for Curing Such as Are Infected with It. by Thomas Willis

Miss I. Leitch has made careful observations of the rate of growth of rootlets of the Pea; and I have attempted a further analysis of her principal results 143 .
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

There is neither barbarism, solecism, equivoque, redundancy, nor transgression of one single rule of grammar or rhetoric, through the whole.
— from Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume 1 (of 2) by John Hill Burton

The rich old gold of ripening wheat and the blue haze hanging over the distant hills all lent an atmosphere of tranquillity which the notes of the thrush only emphasized.
— from See America First by Charles J. Herr

"We'll remember our good old resolution," she said brightly, "not to grumble, not to fret, not to cry.
— from The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls by L. T. Meade

Whitman, W. natural style; Man of War Bird ; early conventionality; Stevenson's remark on; growth of reputation; Sandburg's relation.
— from The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by William Lyon Phelps

When they became fully conscious of the immense preponderance of power which they wielded, and of the inability of the petty states of Asia to combine against them in any firm league, they grew careless and confident, reckless of giving offence, ruder in their behaviour, more grasping in their exactions, more domineering, more oppressive.
— from History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson