The hybrid European—a tolerably ugly plebeian, taken all in all—absolutely requires a costume: he needs history as a storeroom of costumes.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The shifting stretches of sand changed their shape year by year with the wind and rain, and Cricket had no definite idea of the exact locality of the spot where mamma and auntie had buried their money-bags, thirty years before.
— from Cricket at the Seashore by Elizabeth Weston Timlow

"You know I am rich, and can have no doubt that I am able to fulfil any engagement with you into which I may enter.
— from Stoneheart: A Romance by Gustave Aimard

American début of Michel Gusikov, Russian violinist, in a recital at Carnegie Hall, New York City. 1920.
— from Annals of Music in America: A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events by Henry Charles Lahee

—German and Russian Army Corps have no Corps Artillery; other armies have two or more Brigades, organized in Regiments.
— from Organization: How Armies are Formed for War by Hubert Foster

American début of Josef Stopak, violinist, in a recital at Carnegie Hall, New York City.
— from Annals of Music in America: A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events by Henry Charles Lahee

In my journal, written on that day, I find some things related of which I have scarcely any recollection, and certainly have never witnessed since.
— from The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Basil Hall

American début of Izzy Mitnisky, Russian violinist, in a recital at Carnegie Hall, New York City. 1921.
— from Annals of Music in America: A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events by Henry Charles Lahee

American début of Artur Schnabel, German pianist, in a recital at Carnegie Hall, New York City. 1921.
— from Annals of Music in America: A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events by Henry Charles Lahee

Of course, things have changed in Sweden, too; and American ragtime, always contagious, has now infected all Europe.
— from Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists by James Francis Cooke

Mr. Gandhi was shocked when some Parsi ladies had {134} their saries torn off, and very properly, yet the God-fearing hooligans had been taught that it was sinful to wear foreign cloth, and doubtless felt they were doing a religious act; can he not feel a little sympathy for thousands of women left with only rags, driven from home, for little children born of the flying mothers on roads in refuge camps?
— from Gandhi and Anarchy by Sankaran Nair, C. (Chettur), Sir