The only, and apparently the simplest, way of dealing with such people is the patient and earnest discussion of the case, the demonstration that the judge is ready carefully to study all damaging facts, and even a tendency to refer to evidence of innocence in hand, and a not over-energetic discussion of the man’s possible guilt.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Reply: dominant Judaism, its ruling class.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Answer: dominant Judaism, its ruling class.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“True, Holy Clerk,” said the Black Knight, “true as if Saint Dunstan himself had said it.—And now, good Locksley, were it not well that noble Cedric should assume the direction of this assault?” “Not a jot I,” returned Cedric; “I have never been wont to study either how to take or how to hold out those abodes of tyrannic power, which the Normans have erected in this groaning land.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

As for my old friend, Madame Joyeuse, I really could have wept for the poor lady, she appeared so terribly perplexed.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The theme is short, and its variations, though they might well be innumerable, could not easily become tiresome—for it is still too paradoxical a novelty, and almost a painful one, to affirm that the morality of distinction is nothing, at bottom, but joy in refined cruelty.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He with Rig Jarl in runes contended, artifices practised, and superior proved; then acquired Rig to be called, and skilled in runes.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

"Oh, I can't do that, Janetta: I really can't.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Inch by inch they were driven closer; now the elbows almost touched; now the wrists joined in reluctant contact.
— from Rupert of Hentzau: From The Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim Sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope

The entertainment of this eastern London was jingle, its religion clap-trap, its reading feeble and sensational rubbish without kindliness or breadth.
— from Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

“That’s just it,” replied Charles in a mournful voice.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914 by Various

Is YOURS a perfect love, my dear Martin, with its insatiable jealousy, its ruthless criticism?
— from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Jesus incidentally remarked concerning one of his followers, “If I will that he tarry till I come , what is that to thee?
— from The state of the dead and the destiny of the wicked by Uriah Smith

“There’s nothing new, except that Dr. Carey has gone West for a vacation and John Jacobs is raising cain over at Wykerton because a hired hand, just a waif of an 302 orphan boy, got drunk in Hans Wyker’s joint and fell into Big Wolf and was drowned.
— from Winning the Wilderness by Margaret Hill McCarter

Different seers interpreted the phantasmal appearances in different fashions, and either endeavored to form novel combinations, or joined in raking common sewers for filth wherewith to bespatter those who were the rivals of their favorite candidates.
— from Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore

At this junction is (R) CAMP ATCHESON HISTORIC SITE, commemorating establishment of Sibley's base camp July 18, 1863.
— from North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota

Here the older monks laboured at the tasks appointed them by obedience, or discussed questions relating to ecclesiastical learning or regular observance; or at permitted times joined in recreative conversation.
— from A Handbook of Pictorial History by Henry W. Donald