Recently, attention has been directed to the accumulation of autobiographical and biographical materials which are interpreted from the point of view of psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

In the fireside narrative of Captain Sleet, entitled “A Voyage among the Icebergs, in quest of the Greenland Whale, and incidentally for the re-discovery of the Lost Icelandic Colonies of Old Greenland;” in this admirable volume, all standers of mast-heads are furnished with a charmingly circumstantial account of the then recently invented crow’s-nest of the Glacier, which was the name of Captain Sleet’s good craft.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

It was almost impossible for two persons to assist each other in a surgical case with a more splenetic cordiality.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

I am about to remove from thee my Grandsire who art styled Pĕtĕra Gûru, the original teacher, who art from the beginning, and who art incarnate from thy birth.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

I have looked at the city from the water and islands from the city, but I can see nothing that recalls the times gone by, except the venerable Mission, the ruinous Presidio, the high hills in the rear of the town, and the great stretches of the bay in all directions.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

I do not know whether it be worse to see a man sit down in a waltz, or to find him with his head poked forward over your young wife’s shoulder, hot, red, wild, and in far too close proximity to the partner of your bosom, whom he makes literally the partner of his own.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Now, in the midst of these intestine disquiets, we are threatened with an invasion from the island of Blefuscu, which is the other great empire of the universe, almost as large and powerful as this of his majesty.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

“Why, really, Ma’am, as to your being a little out of sorts, I must own I can’t wonder at it; for, to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it’s quite another thing!
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

These were the charges and differences existing between the rival powers before the war, arising immediately from the affair at Epidamnus and Corcyra.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

True, experience had proved that this was an impossibility, for thoughts took wing and flew where they would, and dreams grew of themselves—dreams of someone big, and strong, and tender; someone who would understand , and fill the void in one’s heart which ached sometimes, and called for more, more; refusing to be satisfied with food and raiment.
— from Flaming June by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

And contemplating the calicular shafts, and uncous disposure of their extremities, so accommodable unto the office of abstersion, not condemn as wholly improbable the conceit of those who accept it, for the herb Borith .
— from The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3 by Browne, Thomas, Sir

The times with me are pretty much as usual; not so full of action as I could wish; and I find this propensity to action is very apt to lead me into scrapes.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

What slave soul does he believe exists in the German people when it thinks that it will allow its freedom to be meted out to them from without?
— from Germany, The Next Republic? by Carl W. (Carl William) Ackerman

In the fireside narrative of Captain Sleet, entitled "A Voyage among the Icebergs, in quest of the Greenland Whale, and incidentally for the re-discovery of the Lost Icelandic Colonies of Old Greenland;" in this admirable volume, all standers of mast-heads are furnished with a charmingly circumstantial account of the then recently invented crow's-nest of the Glacier, which was the name of Captain Sleet's good craft.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Monism, therefore, essentially consists simply in a hypothesis that combines the least questionable facts dealt with by science, those which are inseparable from the elementary facts of consciousness.
— from The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau

Stella was awfully ill for the first few weeks after we arrived——" "She looks very well now," said Philip coldly, "and happy," he added.
— from Star of India by Alice Perrin

This work explains, with admirable sagacity, the origin and primitive import of many of the most common yet most obscure English words; and is, for that reason, a valuable performance.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

The attitude of the Italians who held part of occupied France was an important factor: they either found excuses for their non-cooperation with the Germans or just refused.
— from The Grey Book A collection of protests against anti-semitism and the persecution of Jews issued by non-Roman Catholic churches and church leaders during Hitlers rule by Johan M. Snoek

“I do, indeed, madam; and I don’t wonder at it, for there are charms that are lavished upon him that are enough to——” “Oh! come, come, now, Daniel, don’t give us any of your dry compliments.
— from Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 1 (of 2) being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with his North American Indian Collection by George Catlin