In Japan, art is not a foreign language; it is vernacular.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

An added mixture of irritability and animosity in his feelings leads us to suspect that the mother-in-law actually represents an incest temptation for the son-in-law, just as it not infrequently happens that a man falls in love with his subsequent mother-in-law before his inclination is transferred to her daughter.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

That was only an appetizer for me, just as if nothing at all had happened.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

"It seems strange that we can go in with ordinary life just as if nothing were happening overseas that concerned us, just as if any day might not bring us awful news.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Their function was more limited than that which has been gained by the jury, and it naturally happened that, when they had declared what the defendant had done, the judges laid down the standard by which those acts were to be measured without their assistance.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

He went right on talking, just as if nothing had happened, telling about his travels, and the interesting things he had seen in the big worlds of our solar system and of other solar systems far away in the remotenesses of space, and about the customs of the immortals that inhabit them, somehow fascinating us, enchanting us, charming us in spite of the pitiful scene that was now under our eyes, for the wives of the little dead men had found the crushed and shapeless bodies and were crying over them, and sobbing and lamenting, and a priest was kneeling there with his hands crossed upon his breast, praying; and crowds and crowds of pitying friends were massed about them, reverently uncovered, with their bare heads bowed, and many with the tears running down—a scene which Satan paid no attention to until the small noise of the weeping and praying began to annoy him, then he reached out and took the heavy board seat out of our swing and brought it down and mashed all those people into the earth just as if they had been flies, and went on talking just the same.
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

The fishermen, the owners of the boat, which the mill-wheels had knocked to pieces, now came up, and seeing it smashed they proceeded to strip Sancho and to demand payment for it from Don Quixote; but he with great calmness, just as if nothing had happened him, told the millers and fishermen that he would pay for the bark most cheerfully, on condition that they delivered up to him, free and unhurt, the person or persons that were in durance in that castle of theirs.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

They must all, in some sense, partake of a common nature, which will be found in whatever is just and in nothing else.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

That's just an initial name.
— from Warren Commission (06 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Sir J. Am I not justified?
— from Mollentrave on Women: A comedy in three acts by Alfred Sutro

Jasper and I never knew what poverty meant.
— from How It All Came Round by L. T. Meade

1594, 16th Oct. John Danter, “Jones’ ale is new.”
— from Strange Survivals: Some Chapters in the History of Man by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Then he had laughed and joked as if nothing unusual had happened—only was he watching her out of the corner of his eye when he thought she wasn't looking?
— from Missy by Dana Gatlin

me light, comfort, utterance and consistency, just as I needed it.
— from The Foundling; or, The Child of Providence by J. (John) Church

The winter lasts no longer than June and July, and is not then severe, there being then only slight frosts and a little hail, but sometimes very great rains.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Robert Kerr

In Georgia the chief justice was appointed by the assembly, but the people elected the county judges annually; in New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania the assemblies chose the judges for seven years; in Massachusetts, New York, and Maryland the governor and council appointed the judges who held office during good behavior; in other states the legislatures appointed them for varying terms.
— from The Colonization of North America, 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

Yet Seville basks in the sun and smiles on the flashing waters of the Guadalquivir, and Cadiz sits serene upon the green hillsides of San Sebastian, just as if nothing had ever happened; neither the Barber and Carmen, nor Nelson and Byron; the past but a phantom; the present the prosiest of prose-poems.
— from Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography by Henry Watterson

—You are thus brought face to face with another thing which is just as important, namely, that, in considering power, time, as well as energy, must be considered.
— from Motors by James Slough Zerbe