Magic, however, is something else; it does not essentially concern itself with spirits, and uses special means, not the ordinary psychological method.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

Now, and for a long time to come, what the United States most need, to give purport, definiteness, reason why, to their unprecedented material wealth, industrial products, education by rote merely, great populousness and intellectual activity, is the central, spinal reality, (or even the idea of it,) of such a democratic band of-native-born-and-bred teachers, artists, littérateurs , tolerant and receptive of importations, but entirely adjusted to the West, to ourselves, to our own days, combinations, differences, superiorities.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

And then they holp up their father, and so by their common assent promised unto Sir Marhaus never to be foes unto King Arthur, and thereupon at Whitsuntide after, to come he and his sons, and put them in the king’s grace.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Unyà sa Martis, Next Tuesday.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Justice of God, ah! who heaps up so many New toils and sufferings as I beheld?
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

They won’t notice us so much next time.”
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Those who reflected upon such matters noticed that at the St. Filipe Club, where a few years back there had been much talk of art and literature, and abstract principles, there had come to be a more worldly, perhaps a Philistine would say a more mature, flavor to the conversation.
— from The Philistines by Arlo Bates

I have shown that among older writers the fall of Adam was termed felix culpa , a fortunate sin, because it had been expiated with immense benefit by the incarnation of the Son of God: for he gave to the universe something more noble than anything there would otherwise have been amongst created beings.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

“But your wife is in heaven,” she rejoined, “and much better off, unless sermons mean nothing, than anybody here below.”
— from My Lady Nobody: A Novel by Maarten Maartens

I had lighted a weed upon seating myself near them, and as he uttered a polite 'Pardon me, sir,' I smoked calmly on, while I copied upon a fresh page of my notebook the legend, 'Jenner discovered the principle of [10] vaccination in 1796,' putting an elaborate final flourish after the date.
— from Against Odds: A Detective Story by Lawrence L. Lynch

He even had a chair that looked pretty authentic, and I wondered where he'd dug up so many nice things of the New Amsterdam period—though, of course, I had to take his word as to where they belonged historically; I didn't know.
— from A Traveler in Time by August Derleth

This is a step towards more substantial improvement, and every step in this salutary career must advance us still more near the complete attainment of general union and harmony.
— from Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of