"Dr. Reynolds, who is still living in Meadville," says Dr. Mitchell, "and who has most kindly placed the facts at my disposal, states in his letter to me of January 4, 1888, that at a later period of her life she said she did sometimes seem to have a dim, dreamy idea of a shadowy past, which she could not fully grasp, and could not be certain whether it originated in a partially restored memory or in the statements of the events by others during her abnormal state.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The ready belief which has been yielded to the slander of my "potential infidelity," I attribute in part to the openness with which I have avowed my doubts, whether the heavy interdict, under which the name of Benedict Spinoza lies, is merited on the whole or to the whole extent.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Is bliss, then, such abyss It can't be summer, — that got through; It dropped so low in my regard It is an honorable thought, It makes no difference abroad, It might be easier It sifts from leaden sieves, It sounded as if the streets were running, It struck me every day It tossed and tossed, — It was not death, for I stood up, It was too late for man, It's like the light, —
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

Having passed a considerable time in what had been her father's study, having selected some of his favourite authors, to put up with her clothes, and shed many tears, as she wiped the dust from their covers, she seated herself in his chair before the reading desk, and sat lost in melancholy reflection, till Theresa opened the door to examine, as was her custom before she went to bed, if was all safe.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

If Charley could only have made the letters in her copy as round as the eyes with which she looked into my face, they would have been excellent.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

But in the degree in which what is communicated cannot be organized into the existing experience of the learner, it becomes mere words: that is, pure sense-stimuli, lacking in meaning.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Since another II.17 has prevented me from being the first, I have 389 made it my object, a thing which still lay in my power, that he should not be the only one.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

But the voice of yesterday still lingers in my ear.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Also, communication infrastructure is sorely lacking in many places outside Europe and the United States.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

As something loudly in my breast Remonstrates
— from A Persian Pearl, and Other Essays by Clarence Darrow

He assumes as axiomatic certainties and insoluble mysteries the existence of the spiritual life in man, the union of the human and divine, and the freedom of the spiritual personalities, though in a sense dependent upon the Universal Spiritual Life.
— from Rudolph Eucken : a philosophy of life by Abel J. (Abel John) Jones

Beat whites of eggs to stiff froth, and stir lightly into mixture.
— from The Story of Crisco by Marion Harris Neil

I've no strength left in my legs.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 3 by Émile Zola

Helena could bar her door if she liked in more ways than one; and against the fences that she raised against me one way or another, what with headaches, whims or Aunt Lucinda, I had now no chance to meet her alone save as she herself might dictate.
— from The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive by Emerson Hough

I observed that, "if we were to meet them at all, they would be less likely to impede our progress dead than alive;" but I still advised Lafontaine to allude as little as he could to the subject, lest it might have the effect of alarming our fair companion.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various

" With these few trifling exceptions, "AN OLD SOLDIER's" letter is most accurate and just.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 5, 1892 by Various