That it can not be simulated, as is frequently asserted in discussions of simulation (especially of epilepsy), is not true, inasmuch as there exists an especial physiological process which succeeds in causing pallor artificially.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

With her eyes bandaged she became entirely helpless, and like other persons of a similar sort whose cases have been recorded, she almost immediately fell asleep in consequence of the withdrawal of her last sensorial stimulus.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

When I have something to do that must not be set aside, I feel as if I were going forward in a straight line, bound to arrive somewhere, or go on forever without swerving to the right or to the left.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

"And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron; forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things."
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

He threw open a window, thrust his head out, and such an irruption followed as I never had heard before.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

I passed a cruel night, for as soon as I fell asleep I was in your arms, and I awoke again and again on the point of consummating the greatest of crimes.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Lastly, the lean, mud-encrusted cows which could be seen hungrily cropping the herbage in the ditches were so "staring" of coat that the animals might just have been rescued from the talons of some terrible, death-dealing monster; and as one gazed at those weak, pitiful beasts, almost one could fancy that one saw uprisen from amid the beauty of spring, the pale phantoms of Winter—its storms and its frost and its snow.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

When talking of nervous tremors and bodily actions, we may feel secure against intrusion from an irrelevant mental world.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

A diagonal movement of the same nature is then taught; men are taught to halt their horses suddenly and rein them back a length or two; they are taught when at the canter to cause their horses to passage sideways across the square, and, in fact, are instructed to make every movement of which a horse is capable.
— from The French Army from Within by Anonymous

The same author, by the way, says elsewhere I would wish if I were legislator that they should adopt in France as in Germany the custom of soirées dansantes .
— from The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Negligible Tales, On With the Dance, Epigrams by Ambrose Bierce

It may be premised further that the Spanish adventures who thronged to the New World after its discovery found the same race of Red Indians in the West India Islands, in Central and South America, in Florida, and in Mexico.
— from Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis Henry Morgan

A property is an accident which belongs exclusively to a certain class or kind of substance, and is found always in all members of that class, inasmuch as it has an adequate foundation in the nature of that substance and a necessary connexion therewith.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

The Elswick establishment soon afterwards surpassed all its former achievements in building great guns, by designing and constructing the huge breech-loaders, one of which forms the subject of our Plate XII .
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

It seems almost impossible for Americans in the twentieth century to believe that such a story can be true.
— from Winning a Cause: World War Stories by John G. (John Gilbert) Thompson

She had been told by those she too much trusted, that the Church of Christ was being torn in pieces in Germany, and in Switzerland, and in France, and in England by a great outbreak of heretical error; and, while the Society of Jesus and the Secret Inquisition were established to cope with all such heresy, Teresa set herself to counteract it by a widespread combination of unceasing penance and intercessory prayer.
— from Santa Teresa: An Appreciation With Some of the Best Passages of the Saint's Writings by Alexander Whyte

The sound began this time faintly in the far distance in front of him, travelled slowly toward him with regularly increasing intensity, passed overhead at its loudest, and then grew more and more quiet, wonderful, and solemn, as it fell away in the rear, until the note was merged in the deathlike silence of the forest.
— from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay

He fixes them on me sometimes, and I feel as if there was fascination in their glare.
— from Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 4 (of 4) by Charles Robert Maturin

Then from Buck in front of me I heard again the loud detonating sound, and I saw the smoke as it floated away in the air to the southwest, and then for half an hour or more a desultory firing was kept up by both guns.
— from The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes. A Story of Mountain and Plain by John R. Cook