“All right; run along, you sausage-spearers.
— from High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall

"Black or white, he was a rank rogue; and you see the end he came to.
— from The Water-Witch; Or, the Skimmer of the Seas: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

The Bahá’í principle of the harmony between science and religion requires, as you say, that a Bahá’í scholar must use his intelligence to arrive at a solution of a specific problem if there is an apparent conflict between a Sacred Text and other evidence; and also he must accept the fact that some problems may defy his comprehension....
— from Extracts from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh and `Abdu'l-Bahá and from the Letters of Shoghi Effendi and the Universal House of Justice on Scholarship by Universal House of Justice

Like most Asiatics he was acquisitive and money loving, and to be promised a rich reward, and yet see no prospect of being able to earn it, was tantalising to the last degree.
— from The Ruby Sword: A Romance of Baluchistan by Bertram Mitford

"That's a reasonable request and you shall have it," said Un
— from The Rainbow Bridge by Frances Margaret Fox