A blind man can form no notion of colours; a deaf man of sounds.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Even Dons stayed to listen on that epoch-making occasion and the fame of their curious and delightful method of singing spread all over the university.
— from The Sins of the Children: A Novel by Cosmo Hamilton

“It will take over your citadel and dig me out some day,” I retorted hotly.
— from The Seats of the Mighty, Complete by Gilbert Parker

“Knowing me, sir, as you do,” he said, “could you doubt for a moment that I mend my own clothes and darn my own stockings?”
— from The Fallen Leaves by Wilkie Collins

"It will take over your citadel and dig me out some day," I retorted hotly.
— from The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 2 by Gilbert Parker

Mexican Baked Macaroni or Spaghetti Cook and drain macaroni or spaghetti, two cups of either; heat one-fourth cup olive oil, add clove of garlic and one-half cup chipped dried beef, cook until beef curls, add tablespoon flour, brown, add one-half cup chopped mushrooms, two tablespoons green chile pulp, one large pimiento chopped fine, add two cups tomatoes, cook all together, salt to taste, mix with macaroni, put in baking dish, cover with grated Mexican cheese (Queso Mexicano), bake till cheese is melted.
— from California Mexican-Spanish Cook Book: Selected Mexican and Spanish Recipes by Bertha Haffner-Ginger

Not only are her conversations wonderfully vivacious and sustained, but she contrives to assign to each of her characters a distinct mode of speech, so that the reader easily identifies them, and can follow the conversations without the slightest difficulty."— London Athenæum.
— from The Black Poodle, and Other Tales by F. Anstey

The scene at Gilgal is truly characteristic, and develops much of Saul's principle of action.
— from Life and Times of David. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. VI by Charles Henry Mackintosh

Cosmas and Damian; Miracle of St. Antony of Padua. Gloucester.
— from The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance With An Index To Their Works by Bernard Berenson

The Protestant mob also began to act after its own fashion, without waiting for an answer from Philip, and week after week carried on a course of destruction that wrecked cathedrals, monasteries, churches, and destroyed more old stained glass, wonderful statues, great pictures, jewelled vestments, and sacred vessels than have escaped to this day.
— from Heart of Europe by Ralph Adams Cram