According to this, it seems to me a very plausible view that quite generally Attention has its seat in the mechanism of the body.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

I think I shall trade,” said he, leaning back in his chair, “to the East Indies, for silks, shawls, spices, dyes, drugs, and precious woods.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Dear little T.H. who of all children has been brought up with the most scrupulous exclusion of every taint of superstition—who was never allowed to hear of goblin or apparition, or scarcely to be told of bad men, or to read or hear of any distressing story—finds all this world of fear, from which he has been so rigidly excluded ab extra , in his own "thick-coming fancies;" and from his little midnight pillow, this nurse-child of optimism will start at shapes, unborrowed of tradition, in sweats to which the reveries of the cell-damned murderer are tranquillity.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

there is some timber in it's bottom lands, which consists of Cottonwood red Elm, with a small proportion of small Ash and box alder.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

You would compare them, I said, to those invalids who, having no self-restraint, will not leave off their habits of intemperance?
— from The Republic by Plato

The sledge drove twice round the square, and Kay fastened his own little sledge to it, so that when it went away, he followed with it.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

So being much troubled I said to the men, 'My men, I know you are hard pressed, but listen while I tell you the prophecy that Teiresias made me, and how carefully Aeaean Circe warned me to shun the island of the blessed sun-god, for it was here, she said, that our worst danger would lie.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

They are the orderly class, which in a nation of traders is sure to be the richest.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Both seemed to implore something to shelter them from reality.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

But if the first ground of such Discourse be not Definitions, or if the Definitions be not rightly joyned together into Syllogismes, then the End or Conclusion is again OPINION, namely of the truth of somewhat said, though sometimes in absurd and senslesse words, without possibility of being understood.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

These despatches?” “I have thought of all that This sword-cut has left it terrible ‘tic’ behind it, and travelling disposes to it, so that I have telegraphed for leave to send my despatches forward by Hassan, my Persian fellow, and rest myself here for a day or two.
— from A Rent In A Cloud by Charles James Lever

There is nothing on earth that he will not devour, From a tutor in seed to a freshman in flower; No sage is too gray, and no youth is too green, And you can't be too plump, though you're never too lean.
— from The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete by Oliver Wendell Holmes

C. 46⅘ × 36⅖. Hannah Teaching the Infant Samuel to Read .
— from Rembrandt van Rijn by Malcolm Bell

No, doubt it was a most illiberal and unwise policy for the inhabitants of the independent States to exclude from office the wanderers, for conscience' sake, from the obedient Provinces.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

And on the pillars are other images, smaller, with other images yet more subordinate, and other figures again, in such a way that I saw this work gradually diminishing in size on these pillars with their designs, from pillar to pillar, and each time smaller by the size of a span as it went on, becoming lost; so it went dwindling gradually away till there remained of all the sculptured work only the dome, the most beautiful I ever saw.
— from A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India by Nunes, Fernão, active 16th century

The inventor stated “that when open the box shall constitute the bed for the machine to be operated upon, and hanging the machine thereto to facilitate oiling, cleansing, and repairs without removing it from the box.”
— from The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Grace Rogers Cooper