The state of feeling and the state of naming the feeling are continuous, and the infallibility of such prompt introspective judgments is probably great.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

There is the sound of feet, and they stop to listen.
— from Justice by John Galsworthy

For if those most ancient Romans also had worshipped images, perhaps thou wouldst have suppressed by the silence of fear all those sentiments (true sentiments, nevertheless) concerning the folly of setting up images, and wouldst have extolled more loftily, and more loquaciously, those mysterious doctrines consisting of these vain and pernicious fictions.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The air was filled with sparks of fire, around that spot where the eyes of Heyward were still fastened, with admiration and wonder.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Importance of system to knowledge Darwin, in an autobiographical sketch, says that when a youth he told the geologist, Sidgwick, of finding a tropical shell in a certain gravel pit.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

The war-chroniclers who write brilliant stories of fight and triumph scarcely tell us of these.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

And what is yet more comical, you shall have some wrinkled old women, whose very looks are a sufficient antidote to lechery, that shall be canting out, Ah, life is a sweet thing , and so run a caterwauling, and hire some strong-backed stallions to recover their almost lost sense of feeling; and to set themselves off the better, they shall paint and daub their faces, always stand a tricking up themselves at their looking-glass, go naked-necked, bare-breasted, be tickled at a smutty jest, dance among the young girls, write love-letters, and do all the other little knacks of decoying hot-blooded suitors; and in the meanwhile, however they are laughed at, they enjoy themselves to the full, live up to their hearts' desire, and want for nothing that may complete their happiness.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

The revenue which they pay to the Persian Government annually is fixed at four hundred tomans, but their master Rejjeb Ali Khan, son of Fazzan Agha, takes six hundred tomans besides sundry fines and other small exactions.
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 2 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady

Why, man, there are three distinct sets of fortifications against the sunshine in those windows: first, outside blinds; then solid, folding, inside shutters; and, lastly, heavy, thick, lined damask curtains, which loop quite down to the floor.
— from Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Bees have been known to fly great distances from their hive, in search of food; and the silk-worm moth has travelled more than a hundred miles in a very short space of time.
— from Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest Being an Attempt to Illustrate the First Principles of Natural Philosophy by the Aid of Popular Toys and Sports by John Ayrton Paris

Egerton placed himself beside her, and Winter stood opposite, in a state of fume, against the stupidity of lodging-house servants.
— from Kate Vernon: A Tale. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Mrs. Alexander

The river Saint Mary, opposite this village, is about two miles wide, and having found its way out of a deep bay of the ocean lake, it here rushes over a ledge of rocks in great fury, and presents, for the distance of nearly a mile, a perfect sheet of foam, and this spot is called the Sault, signifying falls.
— from A Summer in the Wilderness embracing a canoe voyage up the Mississippi and around Lake Superior by Charles Lanman

The huge machine moving so swiftly, so noiselessly, with such a sense of freedom and the sensation of flying, drew him like a magnet.
— from Bert Wilson at the Wheel by J. W. Duffield

Between the mountains lay a further stretch of forest, and then still other mountains constantly rising higher and higher.
— from A Russian Proprietor, and Other Stories by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

We have no doubt that a large and increasing number of people share both these sets of feelings, and they seem to indicate the way out of the dilemma.
— from The Unpopular Review Vol. I January-June 1914 by Various

One of the boats, the Narragansett, was struck near the middle, her side cut open, and a smoke-pipe knocked over, which made a down draught through the furnace, driving out a great sheet of burning gas into the cabins and between decks, by which the vessel was set on fire, at the same time the opening in her side caused her to begin to sink.
— from Scientific American, Vol. XLIII.—No. 1. [New Series.], July 3, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures by Various

You may consider that a pretty strong statement, Mrs. Lathrop, 'n' I don't say myself but 't with any other man there might be a hereafter, but it was me 'n' not anybody else as see his face last night, 'n' seein' his face 'n' bein' a woman o' more brains 'n falls to the lot of yourself 'n' the majority, I may just as well say once for all that, 's far 's the minister's concerned, I sh'll never be married to him .
— from Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop by Anne Warner