Date: 1799
"My mind was so full of objects of more urgent moment that the propriety of taking them [his shoes] along with me never occurred."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"Others, unemployed, were strolling to and fro, and testified to their vacancy of thought and care by humming or whistling a tune."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"My mind gradually expanded itself, as it were, for the reception of new ideas."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
"The image of Achsa filled my fancy, but it was the harbinger of nothing but humiliation and sorrow."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1997
"But her innocent attention has reach'd unto the dead Vacuum ever at the bottom of my soul,-- humiliation absolute."
preview | full record— Pynchon, Thomas (b. 1937)
Date: 2006
"More and more in recent weeks, he had found himself approaching likewise the condition of an empty cylinder, ony intermittently occupied by intelligent thought."
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Date: 2010
"His cell was a concrete box six feet by ten with one window and a steel door with a slot wide enough to slip his hands through but that was all, and most of the time he just lay there on his cot, his mind so blank it was like a pail with nothing in it."
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