Now, the effect is doubtless due to the same hallucinatory mechanism; but the source is less easily assigned as we ascend the scale of cases.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Herodotus tells us that the grave of Osiris was at Sais in Lower Egypt, and that there was a lake there upon which the sufferings of the god were displayed as a mystery by night.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

One hand was held by Fred, who stood with his face bent toward her, stammering something in low earnest tones.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The street frightened her, since it led either to the gallows or to the river.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

This comparative standpoint is legitimate enough for some purposes, but if we make it final, the question arises whether we are not guilty of an overweening presumption.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

While her fire was spirited, somehow it lacked effectiveness, which is probably attributable to the distress and confusion caused on board of her by the stunning effect of the American's shooting.
— from The Story of John Paul Jones by Chelsea Curtis Fraser

“It is certain,” said the general, “I have seen no such meat since I left England.
— from Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War. With The Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions by Alexis Soyer

“And are you making a long stay in London?” enquired Madame de Varigny.
— from The House of Dreams-Come-True by Margaret Pedler

Comb honey is stored usually in one-pound boxes set in a super or small box over the main hive body, which is itself a box about seventeen inches long, eleven inches wide, and ten inches deep into which frames of comb are slid side by side.
— from Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall

So next Sunday I left everything just the same and came out after dark but earlier and lay down with my gun just opposite the door, at twelve whoever it was came (there was no house near) and I lay trying to hear what they said but could not.
— from A Tramp's Scraps by H. I. M. Self

ix., 1898; J. Texte, Jean Jacques Rousseau and the Cosmopolitan Spirit in Literature, etc. (translation), 1899; H. H. Hudson, Rousseau and Naturalism in Life and Thought (World's Epoch Makers), 1903; F. Macdonald, Jean Jacques Rousseau, a new criticism, 1906; J. C. Collins, Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Rousseau in England, 1908.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

At its southern end Lake Albert is fed by the Semliki river which has its sources in Lake Edward.
— from The Nile in 1904 by Willcocks, William, Sir