I remember the astonishment it raised in me.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

In both cases the action is right as measured by the evolutionary standard,—it is action for the winning side.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

That is the question which the study of the Vedas is supposed to aid in resolving.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Then, as if reproaching himself for the longing that he could not repress, he went and kissed the two tousled heads upon the pillow, took down his seldom-used meerschaum, and opened his Plato.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

He gives us directions about the costumes of Perdita, Florizel, Autolycus, the Witches in Macbeth , and the apothecary in Romeo and Juliet , several elaborate descriptions of his fat knight, and a detailed account of the extraordinary garb in which Petruchio is to be married.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

[116] The means of his conversion are certain experiments performed in his laboratory by Herr L. Lange, [117] who was led to distinguish between two ways of setting the attention in reacting on a signal, and who found that they gave very different time-results.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

My attachment to her (though lively and tender, as it really was) did not prevent my loving others, but then it was not in the same manner.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

And though thou knowest not the causes on which this great system depends, yet forasmuch as a good ruler governs the world, doubt not for thy part that all is rightly done.'
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

But if, in the face of all this, you still declare that whaling has no æsthetically noble associations connected with it, then am I ready to shiver fifty lances with you there, and unhorse you with a split helmet every time.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

thus as I recovered consciousness, I knew that I was in the place where I had lost it.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

A drink of lime-juice and water was served out to all the men, who then lay down, with their arms in readiness to repel an attack, by the little wall.
— from The Dash for Khartoum: A Tale of the Nile Expedition by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

She had already told Thyrza half a dozen times that day that such a greed for sweet things as she displayed would ruin her digestion and her teeth; and it ruffled a dictatorial temper to be taken no more notice of than if she were a duck quacking in the farmyard.
— from The Mating of Lydia by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

In speaking of the air, I referred only to the earth; but the general proposition has reference to impulses upon the ether—which, since it pervades, and alone pervades all space, is thus the great medium of creation.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

But, now we are talking of whims and caprices, just come this way with me," added Madame Dubreuil, drawing a deep sigh, "while I explain to you my present difficulty, as well as the cause of my so abruptly summoning you hither; but you are so kind, I feel assured you will not only forgive it, but also render me all the assistance I require."
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue

Paul's letter, addressed to the ‘beloved in God,’ the ‘called saints' that are in Rome, found its way to the people for whom it was meant.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren

The navy, like the army, is recruited by conscription, but active service is for three years, as in the German cavalry and artillery, while only two years in the German infantry.
— from William of Germany by Stanley Shaw

To the Senate of the United States : In response to the resolution of the Senate of the 4th instant, requesting the President, "if in his judgment not incompatible with the public interest, to communicate to the Senate all information which has been received by him or by the State Department in regard to injuries inflicted upon the persons or property of American citizens in Turkey and in regard to the condition of affairs there in reference to the oppression or cruelties practiced upon the Armenian subjects of the Turkish Government; also to inform the Senate whether all the American consuls in the Turkish Empire are at their posts of duty, and, if not, to state any circumstances which have interfered with the performance of the duties of such consuls," I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland by Grover Cleveland

“My dear Sir:” he is made to write in response to an imaginary request for a contribution, “to be obliged to penetrate with the pump-buckets of necessity, prompted by the piston of a fifty-dollar compensation, with a publisher as the pump-handle, in search of a poem, is, of itself, annoying enough.
— from Nathaniel Parker Willis by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

At last he got through them, and into Red Pool Common, which, by leaving the windmill to the right, he cleared pretty cleverly, and entered upon a district still wilder and drearier than any he had traversed.
— from Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees