Consider now, in addition, that the facts established in our two cases are confirmed in all the symptoms of all neurotic diseases, that always and everywhere the meaning of the symptoms is unknown to the sufferer, that analysis shows without fail that these symptoms are derivatives of unconscious experiences which can, under various favorable conditions, become conscious.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

And this current is diffused into small bodies resembling one another in their parts; which, preserving not only some kind of relation between one another, but even a sort of particular identity with the object from which they emanate, puts us, very frequently, into a communication of sentiments with this object, or at least causes us to become aware of the existence of some external circumstance.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

May-Day Festivals But upon Odin’s return the usurpers vanished for ever; and in commemoration of the disappearance of the false Odin, who had ruled seven months and had brought nothing but unhappiness to the world, and of the return of the benevolent deity, the heathen Northmen formerly celebrated yearly festivals, which were long continued as May Day rejoicings.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

Freedom has appeared in the world at different times and under various forms; it has not been exclusively bound to any social condition, and it is not confined to democracies.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

She was nearing us very fast, and the beating of her peddles grew louder and louder.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

This the blest Lover shall for Venus take, And send up vows from Rosamonda's lake.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

It had only been a disquieting suggestion; an air of mystery among the blacks; unexpected visits from far-off neighbors who could hardly account for their coming.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Unfortunately very few of them have survived, and when travelling through Spain, collecting material for a proposed work on "The Spanish Onion as a Cause of National Decadence," I only discovered a very few.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

87 Utrum igitur utilius vel Fabricio, qui talis in hac urbe, qualis Aristides Athenis, fuit, vel senatui nostro, qui numquam utilitatem a dignitate seiunxit, armis cum hoste certare an venenis?
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

He had made a great effort, but it did not go up very far.
— from The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

The medullary plate first contains a shallow median groove, but it is converted into the medullary cord, not in the usual vertebrate fashion, but, as first shewn by Calberla, in a manner much more closely resembling the formation of the medullary cord in Teleostei.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

It is utterly vain for any one to set himself up; for we may rest assured that every one who is set up must, sooner or later, be upset.
— from The All-Sufficiency of Christ. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. I by Charles Henry Mackintosh

was the cry, in response to his shout, like an unreal voice from the blackness of a tomb.
— from As It Was in the Beginning by Philip Verrill Mighels

All these primitive theories are incomplete formulations of the reality, more or less popular efforts to “render” it; they rest upon visible facts not yet correctly interpreted by a completer scientific knowledge; and does that constitute a reason for respecting all these symbols, and for condemning the popular intelligence to fatten upon them?
— from The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau

Mark how the Union veterans fought to-day.
— from The Star of Gettysburg: A Story of Southern High Tide by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Suffice it to say, that, like the simple larks which a fowler attracts and blinds by means of a revolving mirror, the imprudent and unwary visitors, fascinated by the seductions of these sirens, become an easy prey, and stupidly allow themselves to be plucked by the hunters of these prairies.
— from The Sharper Detected and Exposed by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin

The large green grasshopper ( Acrida viridissima ), and probably others of the order, will eat smaller insects as well as its usual vegetable food
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 1 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

We did not see Sandwell under very favourable conditions as regards weather.
— from The Golf Courses of the British Isles by Bernard Darwin