A former student and disciple of Wundt, who recognizes to the full his inestimable services to our science, cannot avoid making certain comparisons.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

For Clemenceau made no pretense of considering himself bound by the Fourteen Points and left chiefly to others such concoctions as were necessary from time to time to save the scruples or the face of the President.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

The shape and dress carry the categorizing process yet farther, so that they are placed in groups, as of this or that tribe or social class, and as these determinations are made they arouse the appropriate sympathies or hatreds such as by experience have become associated with the several categories.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

It had something of the taste of seawater, certainly, although it had been drawn from the well outside.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Now the taking of Sardis came about as follows:—When the fourteenth day came after Croesus began to be besieged, Cyrus made proclamation to his army, sending horsemen round to the several parts of it, that he would give gifts to the man who should first scale the wall.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

They doffed their own shabby clothes, and made free with the family wardrobe and jewels.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

I thought that, more than once, she cast a glance at my new costume, and then whispered to the guest next to her.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

she repeated, shrugging her shoulders, and in that tone of sovereign contempt assumed by women to express their exasperation.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Now, it is you, my friend, who are going to play the giddy pirate and wrest our friends, at the sword’s point, out of the hands of the oppressor, so cut away down below, my lad, and get into your disguise; and while you are doing that the deck hands can be doing the same, so as to render it impossible for them to be identified at any future time, should they be met in the streets of Havana, or elsewhere, by anybody belonging to the Marañon .”
— from The Cruise of the Thetis: A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection by Harry Collingwood

The logical conclusion of all these premises thus reveals the two-fold secret of the alcohol habit: the anomaly of its attractiveness and the necessity of its progressiveness , and we at last recognize the truth that the road to intemperance is paved with mild stimulants, and that the only safe, consistent and effective plan of reform is total abstinence from all stimulating poisons.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, October 1884, No. 1 by Chautauqua Institution

Ping thought he hed ther goat faded, but one day, when we wuz half asleep in our saddles, a feller over on ther other side come a-runnin' in.
— from Ted Strong's Motor Car Or, Fast and Furious by Edward C. Taylor

Directly up the road a hundred paces stood the old stone chimney, a famous landmark of the region.
— from Buffalo Roost A Story of a Young Men's Christian Association Boys' Department by Frank H. (Frank Howbert) Cheley

Tadpoles of Smilisca cyanosticta : (A) Stage 21 (KU 87648) (B) Stage 25 (KU 87651) × 5; (C) Stage 30 (KU 87652) × 4; (D) Stage 40 (KU 87650) × 3.
— from Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William Edward Duellman

Meanwhile Miss Gladwin was exhibiting, as I had foreseen she would, extraordinary efficiency; and her efficiency gave me plenty of work, besides the routine and not small business incident on the transmission of so considerable an estate as Sir Thomas’s.
— from Tales of two people by Anthony Hope

It must nedes signifie some great thing to our vnderstanding, that almightie God hath had such care to prescribe these bookes thus vnto vs: I say not prescribe them only, but to maintaine them and defende them against the malignitie of the deuill and his ministers, who alway went about to destroy them: and yet could these never be so destroyed, but that he woulde have them continue whole and perfect to this day, to our singular comfort and instruction, where other bookes of mortall wise men haue perished in great numbers.
— from Lectures on Bible Revision by Samuel Newth

The botanist Detmer has recently brought forward certain phenomena in vegetable physiology [283] , as a support for the transmission of such changes, and although I do not believe that they will bear this interpretation, the discussion of them may perhaps be useful.
— from Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems Authorised Translation by August Weismann

It was a practical necessity from the first to draw more than one small coach at a time, so the couplings and the bumper devices came as a matter of development.
— from The Modern Railroad by Edward Hungerford