And if one's hearers are broad and high-minded enough to have grasped them already, then the sermon is superfluous.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

When Hiebendahl made the excuse that his gun had been requisitioned, Rockel cried out to him, 'You're a fine lot of fellows!' and went away laughing.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Replying to Sydney Hartland, who had criticized Lang's theory in an article entitled The "High Gods" of Australia , in Folk-Lore (Vol.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

My ears through horror glow; ah!
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Now if the relations are similar, the explanation which holds good of the one ought equally to hold good of the other.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Closer introspection will show everyone to how great a part our knowledge, even of persons, is built up of motor elements.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

As she was eagerly telling her godmother whatever had passed at the ball, her two sisters knocked at the door, which Cinderella ran and opened.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

So upon New Year's Day, when the service was done, the barons rode unto the field, some to joust and some to tourney, and so it happened that Sir Ector, that had great livelihood about London, rode unto the jousts, and with him rode Sir Kay his son, and young Arthur that was his nourished brother; and Sir Kay was made knight at All Hallowmass afore.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

2 overawe, impress s.o. to the extent that he gets flustered or completely eats out of one’s hands.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Browne was a physician who, after much study and travel, settled down to his profession in Norwich; but even then he gave far more time to the investigation of natural phenomena than to the barbarous practices which largely constituted the "art" of medicine in his day.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

I would advise you to drop in there some time when you have nothing to do for—five minutes—if you have never been there: It seems to me the noblest monument that this nation has yet erected to her greatness.
— from Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain

And retaining, according to custom, a more vivid recollection of his wild and desperate language, than of the benevolent tendency of most of his actions, he is usually identified with the malignant demon called the Man of the Moors, whose feats were quoted by Mrs. Elliot to her grandsons; and, accordingly, is generally represented as bewitching the sheep, causing the ewes to KEB, that is, to cast their lambs, or seen loosening the impending wreath of snow to precipitate its weight on such as take shelter, during the storm, beneath the bank of a torrent, or under the shelter of a deep glen.
— from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott

He has been failing and failing before his time, and though he has led a decent life enough, things have gone more to the bad with years of doing nothing, than with all the scandals of my father’s time.”
— from An English Squire by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

A few minutes elapsed, and an answer was returned to the effect that her grace would be ready in time to catch the train.
— from The Lost Lady of Lone by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

He was not drawn either to his grandmother, though she intended to be kind to him.
— from Roger Kyffin's Ward by William Henry Giles Kingston

But when he lifted up his pillow, there sparkled the gold piece, and the next morning he found another, and so on every time he got up.
— from The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

On the whole the experience they had gained of the ferocity and fighting abilities of these Paynee cannibals was such as they were not likely to forget.
— from In Far Bolivia: A Story of a Strange Wild Land by Gordon Stables

Henry had been eager to hear Gilbert's criticism of his novel, but this kind of talk irritated him, though he could not understand why it irritated him, and his irritation drove him to sneers.
— from Changing Winds A Novel by St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine

By artillery fire, machine-gun fire, and rifle fire, the enemy's advancing waves of men were swept to pieces, and though they came on again and again this massacre continued until at last it must have sickened even the high German officers directing the operations from behind.
— from Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various