But when the violence of the impression is once a little abated, the defect of the relation begins to be better felt; and as the character of a person is no wise interested in such injuries as are casual and involuntary, it seldom happens that on their account, we entertain a lasting enmity.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

I remembered Camilla's agonized scream and the awful words echoing through the dim streets of Carcosa.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

And when the ardour of some great preacher for once disclosed to the public the secret sufferings of the individual, the agonies of the lonely souls, when, for example, Whitefield preached “like a dying man to the dying,” now bitterly weeping, now violently stamping his feet, speaking passionately, in abrupt and incisive tones, without fearing to turn the whole force of his attack upon any one individual present, excluding him from the assembly with excessive harshness—then indeed did it seem as if the earth were being transformed into a “field of evil.”
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There comes a time when children must extend and make more exact their acquaintance with existing things; must conceive ends and consequences with sufficient definiteness to guide their actions by them, and must acquire some technical skill in selecting and arranging means to realize these ends.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

’Tis thus our fables we can smoke, As pictures for their age bespoke: For biting envy, in disgust To new improvements, favors rust; But now a tale comes in of course, Which these assertions will enforce.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

It emitted no heat: On the contrary, the extreme chillness of the place seemed to augment with every moment.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

But what is most important is that the majority of our national crimes of violence bear witness to a widespread evil, now so general among us that it is difficult to contend against it.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We moved our hands, for example, when we were dwellers on the earth, and, in so doing, gave vibration to the atmosphere which engirdled it.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

A Templar on his way to the stake saw him and cited him to appear within eight days, and on the eighth day he died.—Chron.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

Tig had no need to kill any game, but he liked to be in the woods watching the ways of the wild creatures, especially the birds; and on that day he had not taken any weapon except a light spear.
— from Days Before history by H. R. (Harry Reginald) Hall

Ain’t it scandalous, eh?” People like the Corries disapproved of people like the Kronens, but had them to stay with them and were excited about their clothes.
— from Honeycomb: Pilgrimage, Volume 3 by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson

The king, by this act, was empowered to appoint commissioners for managing the forfeited estates, who were enabled to grant leases of small farms, not above twenty pounds a-year, to individuals, who should take an oath to government to reside upon and cultivate the lands thus let.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

For awhile, we didn't even notice that the air was even thicker.
— from Let 'Em Breathe Space! by Lester Del Rey

In the fierce passions of the schools, one who antagonized so completely the prevailing currents of thought, and who exposed so mercilessly the ignorance of the learned, could not fail to excite bitter enmities.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

Mr. Stevens said he was tired of hearing d——d Republican cowards talk about the Constitution; that there was no Constitution any longer so far as the prosecution of the war was concerned; and that we should strip the rebels of all their rights, and given them a reconstruction on such terms as would end treason forever.
— from Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by George Washington Julian

God, while as anxious as Ea to keep man from eating of the tree of life, cautions Adam against the act, whereas Ea practises a deception in order to prevent man from eating.
— from The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

The aliens did not join the dancers, preferring instead to remain in their own little brush house half a mile distant, with its single-slant roof, "For it is foolish," said one, "to think that two such handsome young maidens as they are would ever look with favor upon our rags and wrinkles.
— from The North American Indian, Vol. 1 by Edward S. Curtis

They rode down among that tribe at bright noonday, led by Stanesby’s black boy, who had been one of themselves, and when evening fell it was decimated, none left but a few scattered frightened wretches crouching down among the scanty cover in the creek bed, knowing full well that to show themselves but for a moment was to court death swift and certain.
— from The Moving Finger by Mary Gaunt