Again, words heard or read enable you to act with reference to the matters about which they give information; here, again, a present sensible stimulus, in virtue of habits formed in the past, enables you to act in a manner appropriate to an object which is not sensibly present.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Mr. Eshton, the magistrate of the district, is gentleman-like: his hair is quite white, his eyebrows and whiskers still dark, which gives him something of the appearance of a “père noble de théâtre.” Lord Ingram, like his sisters, is very tall; like them, also, he is handsome; but he shares Mary’s apathetic and listless look: he seems to have more length of limb than vivacity of blood or vigour of brain.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Camped on the Lower point of an Id. L. S. called the Mills, here I found Kegs an Pummey stone, and a place that fur or Skins had been burred by the hunters our Hunters Killed 5 Deer, Some rain, the Countrey on the S. S. is Verry fine H2 anchor
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Among miscellaneous elucidations, to the disquisition on the Arbre Sol or Sec in vol.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

I don’t think I ever dream of any words or sound she makes; she is very noiseless and still, but she comes to me when she is very sorry or very glad, and I have wakened with the clasp of her dear little arms round my neck.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

If the prisoner takes the route shown in the diagram—where for clearness the doorways are omitted—he will succeed in visiting every cell once, and only once, in as many as fifty-seven straight lines.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Thou hast, quoth Panurge, a right, clear, and neat spirit, Friar John, my metropolitan cod; thou speakst in very deed pertinently and to purpose.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

A pretty long time thereafter it happened, as you know the affection of stepfathers and stepdams is very rare towards the children of the first fathers and mothers deceased, that this husband, with the help of his son Effege, secretly, wittingly, willingly, and treacherously murdered Abece.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The surface is very uneven, rising like the waves of a troubled sea, descending low, and interspersed by rifts that sink deep.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

In learning their rôle so well in the course of evolution, the thyroid, the pituitary and the suprarenal have become indispensable stimulants (in various degrees peculiar to the individual), to the primary function of the ovary.
— from The Glands Regulating Personality A Study of the Glands of Internal Secretion in Relation to the Types of Human Nature by Louis Berman

The tendency to vary is so strong in some kinds, as in the Village Maid (Rivers page 16), that when grown in different soils it varies so much in colour that it has been thought to form several distinct kinds.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

The heart, which is located in the same relative position as the spine in vertebrate animals, is a tubular structure.
— from The Butterfly Book A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America by W. J. (William Jacob) Holland

The mystery and miracle plays were still in vogue when Richard Carew wrote his Survey of Cornwall .
— from The Celtic Christianity of Cornwall: Divers Sketches and Studies by Thomas Taylor

But at this time I could hardly draw, save in very humble fashion indeed, and little dreamed that I should execute for expensive works illustrations which page 423 p. 423 would be praised by my critics, as strangely happened to my “Gypsy Sorcery.”
— from Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland

They had seemed to tremble in their adoring gratitude for a hastily scrawled autograph; they had sometimes knocked at the back door and with deep apologies asked if they might slip in very quietly and take a time exposure of THE desk where Joseph Romley worked.
— from Laughing Last by Jane Abbott

For the Novice 3 II For the Candy-maker's Table 8 III Thermometer 19 IV Use of Steam 24 V Crystallization 27 VI Chocolate Coating 33 VII Sugar 41 SECTION II VIII Decorative Candies I From Potato Paste 52 Green Leaves 56 II Violets Pop-corn Violets 57 Cocoanut Violets 58 Violet Boutonniere 59 III From Potato Fondant Uncooked Fondant 61 Cooked Potato Fondant 62 Modeled Candy
— from Candy-Making Revolutionized: Confectionery from Vegetables by Mary Elizabeth Hall

—A flourishing settlement in Volusia county, on the west bank of Indian River.
— from Petals Plucked from Sunny Climes by A. M. (Abbie M.) Brooks

In view of the enormous sums involved, the length of time consumed in the litigation, the number and ability of counsel engaged, and the antagonisms engendered, the records of our American courts will be searched in vain for a parallel to the once famous suit of Myra Clark Gaines against the city of New Orleans.
— from Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson