It is perhaps characteristic that this human feeling should show itself most clearly in reference to an act for which she was not directly responsible, and in regard to which therefore she does not feel the instinct of self-assertion.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

" I made every effort to introduce the name of Swann into my conversation with my parents; in my own mind, of course, I never ceased to murmur it; but I needed also to hear its exquisite sound, and to make myself play that chord, the voiceless rendering of which did not suffice me.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

A desire is the inward sign of a physical proclivity to act, an image in sense is the sign in most cases of some material object in the environment and always, we may presume, of some cerebral change.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

When I got to camp I warn’t feeling very brash, there warn’t much sand in my craw; but I says, this ain’t no time to be fooling around.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Nûñ′dăyeʻlĭ—“Middle (i. e. Noonday) sun,” from nûñdă′ , sun and ayeʻlĭ , middle; a former Cherokee settlement on Nantahala river, near the present Jarrett station, in Macon county, North Carolina, so called from the high cliffs which shut out the view of the sun until nearly noon.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

At least 'twas so in my case; and even were it otherwise I would scarce attempt it, for the tale has been already told full oft by abler men than me, and in such glowing words as I could never hope to compass.
— from The Black Box: A Tale of Monmouth's Rebellion by W. Bourne Cooke

In order to make his theory of memory plain, Socrates in "Menon" calls an ignorant slave and instructs him in the fundamentals of geometry.
— from The Positive Outcome of Philosophy The Nature of Human Brain Work. Letters on Logic. by Joseph Dietzgen

Sitting in my car at the city hall.
— from Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

The "Poet," as we called him, as editor of Dwight's Journal of Music , and also as critic, was deserving of especial credit for his services in musical culture.
— from Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman

The Generalife has kept more than any place in Spain its Moorish character, combining in its palace and garden, in spite of decay and alterations, much of that full suggestion of all beautiful things that was their gift.
— from Things seen in Spain by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

Moving southward it is next found on a ridge of sandstone in Montgomery County on the south side of Sugar Creek about a mile east of the shades.
— from Trees of Indiana First Revised Edition (Publication No. 13, Department of Conservation, State of Indiana) by Charles Clemon Deam

It was Friday morning, and as his daughters were in school, he stalked into Mrs. Crane's parlor to wait for them.
— from Tempest and Sunshine by Mary Jane Holmes

"Now, Hetty," continued Miss Davis, "I suppose I may call you Hetty, instead of Miss Gray, as you are only a little girl?"
— from Hetty Gray Nobody's Bairn by Rosa M. (Rosa Mulholland) Gilbert

Since he has not seen you, there is no danger; you need but step into my chamber, and there we will lock ourselves up, and transform him in a twinkling.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by John Dryden