She blew upon us, and all the young ones died excepting us two.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The daily drill and the years of discipline end by fashioning a man completely over again, as to most of the possibilities of his conduct.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

such were your thoughts, mild and gentle as your own dear eyes and voice.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I have tried to understand all moral judgments as symptoms and a language of signs in which the processes of physiological prosperity or the reverse, as also the consciousness of the conditions of preservation and growth, are betrayed—a mode of interpretation equal in worth to astrology, prejudices, created by instincts (peculiar to races, communities, and different stages of existence, as, for instance, youth or decay, etc.).
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“A field of your own, dear Emile!
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I know you would gladly leave this material, and would prefer to hear the dreams of healthy persons, or your own dreams explained.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

“It has been your own doing entirely?”
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

In spite of their long years of disciplined education, he was finding himself their intellectual equal, and the hours spent with them in conversation was so much practice for him in the use of the grammar he had studied so hard.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

The Phœnix Lake in its summer time is a very dark circular spot, small indeed yet of definite extension; in its winter it shrinks to a pin point, and is often not visible at all.
— from Mars and Its Canals by Percival Lowell

"I hear it is your own design, every bit of it, isn't it?"
— from The Gully of Bluemansdyke, and Other stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

They were all men of bad habits, and urgently necessitous, but yet of decent education and family.
— from The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Francis A. (Francis Alexander) Durivage

and he replied in a letter which, omitting the formalities, runs thus in English: I, on my part, and Giuseppina, on hers, are extremely contented because we both love you with that love which is strong and powerful enough to raise the heart and to transport us above the breathable air; and, as our thoughts frequently fly to you, our distant English friend, we make you a proposition, but you will understand that we lay no obligation upon you and we do not ask you to take any trouble.
— from Castellinaria, and Other Sicilian Diversions by Henry Festing Jones

I grant this is somewhat difficult to accomplish, for it much tends to unsteady him, but it can be effected—I have seen it—and, being practicable, it is at least worth trying; for if you succeed, you, as before— 292 —make one dog perform the work of two; and, besides its evident advantage in thick cover, if he accompany [Pg 645] you in your every-day shooting, you will thus obtain, in the course of a season, many a shot which your other dogs, especially in hot weather, would pass over.
— from The Dog by W. N. (William Nelson) Hutchinson

What I have done to-day with the wine is only what your officials do every day with the income of the state.
— from The Countess Cosel: A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

Iobates sent the youth on dangerous errands, but he came off unharmed from all.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

For seven long years, on duty every day, Lo, their obedience, and their monarch's pay: Yet, as in duty bound, they serve him on; 370
— from The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden

In a very lengthy paper, presented to the Linnean Society last year, on "Divergent Evolution through Cumulative Segregation," Mr. Gulick endeavours to work out his views into a complete theory, the main point of which may perhaps be indicated by the following passage: "No two portions of a species possess exactly the same average character, and the initial differences are for ever reacting on the environment and on each other in such a way as to ensure increasing divergence in each successive generation as long as the individuals of the two groups are kept from intercrossing."
— from Darwinism (1889) An exposition of the theory of natural selection, with some of its applications by Alfred Russel Wallace