Meanwhile he succeeded his father, whose post he filled till his death.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Our dream interpretations were made on the hypotheses we accepted a little while ago, that the dream has some meaning, that from the hypnotic to the normal sleep one may carry over the idea of the existence at such times of an unconscious psychic activity, and that all associations are predetermined.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

He saw the uncertainty in the mare’s ears and lifted the whip, but at the same time felt that his fears were groundless; the mare knew what was wanted.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Original s that venerable and learned poet (whose voluminous works we all think it the correct thing to admire and talk about, but don't read often) most truly says, “The child is father to the man;” a fortiori, therefore, he must be father to the boy.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

He told me that his sister had derived considerable benefit from her stay at F— that her son was quite well, and—alas! that both of them were gone, with Mrs. Maxwell, back to Staningley, and there they stayed at least three months.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

The old man had been complaining to his neighbour, the village elder, about his third son who had not sent him anything for the holiday though he had sent a French shawl to his wife.
— from Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Turner and Co. took the latter charge upon themselves; but it was notorious to every unbiassed and unprejudiced person that Mr. Stanhope was a gainer of the 250,000 l. which lay in the hands of that firm to his credit.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

It seems, father, that he has quite a gift of learning.' 'Unnat'ral young beggar!'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

For we may find that he estimates highly pleasures which we not only have never experienced at all, but cannot possibly experience without a considerable alteration of our nature.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

As the words were said he felt two hard points in front of his eyes, pressing upon them so that it appeared as if he could not move forward without a danger of losing them.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

After a fitting time has elapsed,—four months of dignified session,—the mind of the Holy Tribunal is made up.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Reformation by John Lord

Thereupon, he directed my attention to a little slip of paper pasted into the inner cover of the book, on which were written in pencil a few Greek letters; they were from the hand of Lenormant himself, who had taken out his pencil to illustrate something he was saying about a Greek inscription in the museum.
— from By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy by George Gissing

He knew that Glen was somewhat unnerved, and he upbraided himself for telling her about his dream.
— from Glen of the High North by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody

I registered a vow to visit those Finnish solitudes, as we shot out upon the muffled lake, heading for the holy isles of Valaam.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

At the distance of centuries, these vine-growing interests do not appear even in history; but they actually were a most important factor in the Roman policy, a force that helps us explain several main facts in the history of Rome.
— from Characters and events of Roman History by Guglielmo Ferrero

Some years ago I heard of him as a store-keeper in Portsmouth dock-yard, occasionally boasting in feeble fashion that his cousin was Lord Chancellor of England, and not many months since I heard from him in South Africa, where he has secured some appointment in the Commissariat Department, not, I fear, of a very lucrative character.
— from Autobiographical Sketches by Annie Besant

"Selfish men may possess the earth: it is the meek alone who inherit it from the Heavenly Father free from all defilements and perplexities of unrighteousness."
— from The Inner Life Part 3 from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII by John Greenleaf Whittier

I knew very well what land it must be: one of a group of islands every inch of which I had traversed with the zeal of youthful enthusiasm; but which of them, was a question I almost feared to have answered.
— from Summer Cruising in the South Seas by Charles Warren Stoddard

Now, if women are to be silent in the Church; that is, if they are neither to pray, speak, nor sing in public—for singing is certainly one method of conveying instruction to those who hear, and is therefore teaching them how to ascribe praise to God—if they are, upon Scriptural authority, to know nothing but what they may learn from their husbands at home,—then our whole system of civilized education with regard to women is out of place; we had better borrow a leaf from the Turks or Chinese.
— from Woman: Man's Equal by Thomas Webster

Six or eight of these were beheaded, many were hung, and the servants of the slaughtered lords, who happened to come to the town in ignorance of the frightful work, were dragged from their horses and, booted and spurred as they had come, were haled to the gallows.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 09 (of 15), Scandinavian by Charles Morris