[68] 137 Without examining every particular pursuit, it is enough to comprehend them under diversion.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

He entered his wife’s drawing room as one enters a theater, was acquainted with everybody, equally pleased to see everyone, and equally indifferent to them all.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

However, some tradition they dispersed Among the Heathen, of their purchase got, And fabled how the Serpent, whom they called Ophion, with Eurynome, the wide— Encroaching Eve perhaps, had first the rule Of high Olympus; thence by Saturn driven And Ops, ere yet Dictaean Jove was born.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

All parts of the cortex, when electrically excited, produce alterations both of respiration and circulation.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

As we have heard, this is the only point upon which exact experimental psychology can come to our assistance; it gives us the information that stimuli applied during sleep appear in the dream.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

A Carpenter, with equal enthusiasm, proposed timber as a preferable method of defense.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

Then Panurge rose up, and, putting off his cap, did very kindly thank the said Panurge, and with a loud voice said unto all the people that were there: My lords, gentlemen, and others, at this time may I to some good purpose speak that evangelical word, Et ecce plus quam Salomon hic!
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

"If John the Baptizer really was Elijah," exclaimed Peter, "then the Kingdom ought to be very near!"
— from Men Called Him Master by Elwyn A. (Elwyn Allen) Smith

Yet he rather relished his enforced happiness, the sensation of false liberty which every enamored person feels after a quarrelsome break.
— from Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

She would examine each present as it was received, and if it found favor in her eyes, she would use it, but if not, she would have it locked away in one of the storerooms and probably never see it again.
— from Two Years in the Forbidden City by Princess Der Ling

Along the low banks of the Peedee were diked marshes where, before the civil war, each estate produced from five thousand to forty thousand bushels of rice annually, and the lords of rice were more powerful than those of cotton, though cotton was king.
— from Voyage of the Paper Canoe A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, During the Years 1874-5 by Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop