Epicurus in the stomach; Hic exsultat enim pavor ac metus; Hc loca circum Ltiti mulcent.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

"She had not the slightest consciousness that she had ever existed previous to the moment in which she awoke from that mysterious slumber.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Suppose the Sister was right, and that the saints heard every earnest petition?
— from In the Blue Pike — Complete by Georg Ebers

Once she crossed it without checking; she flashed over it again near the Giant’s Bowl, and then the hare knew that the trail would not betray her; the hot sun had evaporated every particle of what little scent she had left.
— from The Story of a Hare by J. C. (John Coulson) Tregarthen

And—to paraphrase Nietzsche's own simile—the insatiable witness of the great tragi-comedy, spectator and participant at once, being loath to leave the theatre, and eager for a repetition of the performance, shouts his endless encore , praying fervently that in the constant repetition of the performance not a single detail of the action be omitted.
— from Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller

By sacrament, creed, and confession she has exercised every precaution to secure peace within her sacred walls.
— from The Celtic Christianity of Cornwall: Divers Sketches and Studies by Thomas Taylor

She had exhausted every possibility of escape, going over and over again the door and the windows, the floor and the walls.
— from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs