The treaty seems to have had little effect in preventing Indian hostilities, probably because the intruders still remained upon the Indian lands, and raiding still continued.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

With your knowledge of the relation between suggestion and transference you will readily understand the capriciousness of hypnotic therapy which attracted our attention, and you will see why, on the other hand, analytic suggestion can be relied upon to its limits.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Mr. Bantling, a stout, sleek, smiling man of forty, wonderfully dressed, universally informed and incoherently amused, laughed immoderately at everything Henrietta said, gave her several cups of tea, examined in her society the bric-à-brac , of which Ralph had a considerable collection, and afterwards, when the host proposed they should go out into the square and pretend it was a fête-champetre , walked round the limited enclosure several times with her and, at a dozen turns of their talk, bounded responsive—as with a positive passion for argument—to her remarks upon the inner life.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

The book attributed to Longinus will not have missed xxv its mark if it reminds us that, in literature at least, for conscience there is yet a place, possibly even a reward, though that is unessential.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

Where the stimulus is unknown and the reaction undetermined, time is lost, because no stable image can under such circumstances be formed in advance.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

On the other hand, Surrey, rejuvenated under the inspiriting leadership of Lord Dalmeny, began in fine style against some not very strong opponents, such as Hants, Northamptonshire and Leicestershire, and up to the time of our writing this the Surrey batsmen all seem to be at the top of their game and the Surrey bowlers seem to be unplayable.
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

It gives the right to reclaim slaves; and that right is, as Judge Douglas says, a barren right, unless there is legislation that will enforce it.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

The fire had then been burning eight hours; the light keepers had been driven from the tower, and, to avoid the falling timbers and red-hot bolts, had taken refuge in the hole or cave on the east side of the rocks under the iron ladder, near the landing.
— from The Light Keepers: A Story of the United States Light-house Service by James Otis

Only one of the men here could speak Portuguese, all the rest using the Indian language, called Lingoa Geral, which I found very difficult to get hold of without any books, though it is an easy and simple language.
— from Travels on the Amazon by Alfred Russel Wallace

A spear whistled over my shoulder, making a flesh wound, and I gave a roar, and rushed upon the irregular line of islanders.
— from She Blows! And Sparm at That! by William John Hopkins

He would have pleaded the sacred right of inheritance, refusing utterly the imaginary law which disentitled him: he would have pressed his title with all Scotland to back him, and probably with the open support of France.
— from The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by James Anthony Froude

At any temperature betwixt these two points, it returns, unaltered, to its liquid state.
— from Useful Knowledge: Volume 1. Minerals Or, a familiar account of the various productions of nature by William Bingley

I lifted some of them, and heard something rattle underneath: then I looked, and found that old teapot, hidden away under a great beam.
— from Five Mice in a Mouse-trap, by the Man in the Moon. by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards