As a motive for the antagonism to remembering the name, we here encounter for the first time a principle which will later disclose to us its whole tremendous significance in the causation of neurotic symptoms, viz., the aversion on the part of the memory to remembering anything which is connected with unpleasant experience and which would revive this unpleasantness by a reproduction.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

For the man was my cousin and dear to me; but after he had chosen enmity with me instead of friendship, and then the gods with the utmost benevolence arbitrated our contention with one another, I proved myself a more loyal friend to him than he had expected to find me before I became his enemy.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

It was arranged therefore that Siebold should return with him, while Hegt and I went on with a couple of officials lent to us by Abé.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

He could, indeed, curse with a richness of vocabulary in a roundness of tone unequalled by any other man in Fecamp.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

So after I had talked and advised with my coz Claxton, and then with my uncle by his bedside, we all horsed away to Cambridge, where my father and I, having left my wife at the Beare with my brother, went to Mr. Sedgewicke, the steward of Gravely, and there talked with him, but could get little hopes from anything that he would tell us; but at last I did give him a fee, and then he was free to tell me what I asked, which was something, though not much comfort.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He is taken as a member of a group, which group is denoted to us by a few convenient signs; as our acquaintance with a particular person advances, this category tends to become qualified.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

By God I will stir them up, big and little, or as best I can, and let them be ever so black I'll turn them into white or yellow.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I don’t know how many worlds there may be in the universe, but anyone who had brought me a spoonful of mustard at that precise moment could have had them all.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Don Antonio directed him to be taken up bodily and carried to bed, and the first that laid hold of him was Sancho, saying as he did so, "In an evil hour you took to dancing, master mine; do you fancy all mighty men of valour are dancers, and all knights-errant given to capering?
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Doubles them up black and blue in convulsions.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

I meant that money, and more too, for that unfortunate boy; and the more careless he was the more necessary it became for me to look after his interests.”
— from The Haute Noblesse: A Novel by George Manville Fenn

Now, if the universe be a created effect , it must, in some degree at least, reveal the character of its Author and cause.
— from Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

He'd been tied up by a Chinese servant, it appeared, though the job must have taken more than one man."
— from Brown of Moukden: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Herbert Strang

A fact this, which is suggestive; for does not our modern, imaginative appreciation of art, do not all those wondrous beautiful and horrible dreams and nightmares, suggested to us by a quite plain and unsuggestive picture, statue, or piece of music, depend a little upon our contemplation of the methodical, zig-zag and twirligig patterned vacuity of modern life?
— from Belcaro; Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions by Vernon Lee

But the assumption is [181] totally unsupported by argument, being set forth, apparently, as a self-evident axiom; it has been severely criticized by Stumpf
— from An essay on the foundations of geometry by Bertrand Russell

Indeed, pulmonary tuberculosis usually begins at the apexes of the lungs , which are less thoroughly aerated, and also usually attacks persons with narrow chests.
— from Pedagogical Anthropology by Maria Montessori

Dad, mother and the uncles Brown and all our people know That Providence began this war to find a grip for Jo!
— from 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse by Edward Dyson

He immediately proceeds to draw from this undeniable, but, as I maintain, partial fact, the broad conclusion which cannot be rebutted, if you accept what he has said in my text as being the sufficient and complete account of man and his dwelling-place.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren

This is why I speak of the mixture of his elements as new, feeling that it governs his example, put by it in a light which nothing else could have equally contributed—so that Byron for instance, who startled his contemporaries by taking for granted scarce one of the articles that formed their comfortable faith and by revelling in almost everything that made them idiots if he himself was to figure as a child of truth, looks to us, by any such measure, comparatively plated over with the impenetrable rococo of his own day.
— from Letters from America by Rupert Brooke