If we could revive the past event without any associates we should exclude the possibility of memory, and simply dream that we were undergoing the experience as if for the first time.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Her aunt then proceeded to examine the simplicity of her dress, adding, that she expected to see her attired with gaiety and taste; after which she condescended to shew Emily the splendour of her chateau, and to point out the particular beauty, or elegance, which she thought distinguished each of her numerous suites of apartments.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

That place, if they find it, will be one in which they do not greatly intensify and so embitter the struggle for existence of the white man.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

But the one that was most excited by hearing it was Don Quixote, who though sorely against his will he was under the goatherd, and something more than pretty well pummelled, said to him, "Brother devil (for it is impossible but that thou must be one since thou hast had might and strength enough to overcome mine), I ask thee to agree to a truce for but one hour for the solemn note of yonder trumpet that falls on our ears seems to me to summon me to some new adventure."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

In such cases the geometrical ratio of increase, the result of which never fails to be surprising, simply explains the extraordinarily rapid increase and wide diffusion of naturalised productions in their new homes.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

About the time of which I am now writing, an event occurred in our immediate neighborhood, which made a deep impression upon me, and which shows the state of society existing there, and the manner in which affronts are oftentimes avenged.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

For years afterwards we read that the way from Oxford to Gloucester was so bad that it took 14 hours to accomplish the distance, though it was not more than 33 miles, while there was a “very bad and shaking way” from Monmouth to Hereford; and at an earlier stage of the circuit the Judge chronicles his safe arrival at High Wycombe from London with the pious but significant ejaculation, “Thanks be to God!”
— from Waterways and Water Transport in Different Countries With a description of the Panama, Suez, Manchester, Nicaraguan, and other canals. by J. Stephen (James Stephen) Jeans

Mr. Hassan, however, seems to speak doubtfully as to the mode in which the disease becomes naturally introduced; [60] how the spores enter the fruit, "is not very clear—though probably, it is by insinuating themselves between the cells of which the cuticle is composed, or perhaps by means of the stomata, where they are present.
— from Epidemics Examined and Explained: or, Living Germs Proved by Analogy to be a Source of Disease by John Grove

Each time that a child had been expected he had built his hopes upon a son; each time disappointment had been more acute.
— from What a Man Wills by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

He seemed insane with rage, and, notwithstanding [Pg 179] the fact that most of the skin was torn from his head and shoulders, appeared to be looking about for something else to fight.
— from American Big-Game Hunting: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Boone and Crockett Club

He said it so earnestly, too.
— from The Girl and Her Fortune by L. T. Meade

"None she!" exclaimed the miller.
— from The Root of All Evil by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

When the Queen heard what had happened, she was so enraged that she vowed utterly to destroy Perth, man, woman, and child, to consume the place by fire, and thereafter to salt it, in sign of a perpetual desolation.
— from The History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland With Which Are Included Knox's Confession and The Book of Discipline by John Knox

But it is not so easy to recognize the fact that, even in these countries, the power is held by the financial and industrial lords, and not by the kings and their titular nobility.
— from Socialism: A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by John Spargo