That the case is the same with all our simple impressions and ideas, it is impossible to prove by a particular enumeration of them.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

But she immediately added: “I should like so to commemorate the closing scene.”
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

The “Black Swan” is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no distance from the station, and there we found the young lady waiting for us.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Since these plots were set in agitation, I have had nothing but hurried journeys, indigestions, blows and bruises, imprisonments and starvation; besides that they can only end in the murder of some thousands of quiet folk.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

And as in Russia, so in America, it is the poor Jew who suffers for the delinquencies of the rich exploiter of his race.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

Libido, analogous to hunger, is the force through which the instinct, here the sex instinct (as in the case of hunger it is the instinct to eat) expresses itself.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

He shewed Himself in earth in the sweet Incarnation and in His blessed Passion.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

Besides the sermon, I was very well pleased with the sight of a fine lady that I have often seen walk in Graye’s Inn Walks, and it was my chance to meet her again at the door going out, and very pretty and sprightly she is, and I believe the same that my wife and I some years since did meet at Temple Bar gate and have sometimes spoke of.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

MYRRHINE How silly I am: I've brought you Rhodian scents.
— from Lysistrata by Aristophanes

—No sooner is this idea, this cognition, of the rightness or wrongness of the given act, fairly entertained by the mind, than another idea, another cognition, presents itself, given along with the former, and inseparable from it, viz., that of obligation to do, or not to do, the given act: the ought , and the ought not —also simple ideas, and indefinable.
— from Mental Philosophy: Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will by Joseph Haven

But,' I says, 'I am informed as there is Ladies in this party, and that half a dozen of 'em, if not more, is in various stages of a interesting state.
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

So I arrived in the Corso and was driving along, thinking no evil, when I was suddenly assailed by a shower of sugar comfits.
— from Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

The governor called attention especially to the speech of Spotted Eagle on the last day,— “which for feeling, courage, and truth, I have never seen surpassed in an Indian council.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

I thought she had not missed me, and, being in a double mood, had been somewhat hurt by the seeming indifference, although I would not have had her want me when I could not come.
— from The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand

She affirmed that with regard to ladies' dress, he had one single idea, an idèe fixe , which she was anxious to reason him out of.
— from Margaret Capel: A Novel, vol. 3 of 3 by Ellen Wallace

The board should be supported in an inverted position at a convenient hight over the 98 operator's head.
— from The Art of Lead Burning A practical treatise explaining the apparatus and processes. by C. H. Fay

"If Greek dances were as artistic as this one," said I, "and if the lines of each chorus had a reference to the diversity of the steps, it is little wonder that God in His providence should have sent us so many commentators to explain the mysteries of ancient scansion."
— from Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes

some forty years ago fairly recognised him as a great and original thinker and teacher, few men have left so indelible an impress on the public mind, or have influenced to so great a degree the most thoughtful of their contemporaries.
— from On the Choice of Books by Thomas Carlyle