Date: 1799
"My meditations had been ardently pursued, and, when I recalled my attention, I found myself bewildered among fields and fences."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1799
"My thoughts flowed with tumult and rapidity."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"The pen is a pacifyer. It checks the mind's career; it circumscribes her wanderings."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1926
"But he didn't feel very brave, for the word which was really jiggeting about in his brain was 'Heffalumps.'"
preview | full record— Milne, A. A. (1882-1956)
Date: 1949
"His mind hovered for a moment round the doubtful date on the page, and then fetched up with a bump against the Newspeak word DOUBLETHINK."
preview | full record— Orwell, George (1903-1950)
Date: 1949
"The idea of following up their momentary contact hardly crossed his mind."
preview | full record— Orwell, George (1903-1950)
Date: 1992
"Other people's words drifted through his mind, like the tumbleweed across a windy desert in the opening shots of 'They Came from Outer Space.'"
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
"No doubt suicide would turn out to be the violent preface to yet another span of nauseating consciousness, of diminishing spirals and tightening nooses, and memories like shrapnel tearing all day long through his flesh."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
"It was hard enough to rescue himself from the avalanche of his own feelings, without allowing the gloomy St Bernard of his attention to wander into other fields."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
" He was dangerously obsessed, dangerously obsessed. And his thoughts, like a bobsleigh walled with ice, would not change their course until he had crashed or achieved his end."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)