What cannot be forgiven to the man who writes of “faint whisperings that come from forest and river as if millions of nothingnesses kept streaming and streaming,” and who finds in those whisperings “one eternity coming to an understanding with another eternity about something”?
— from Wanderers by Knut Hamsun

Beginning with Egypt he set an example (not lost on the man who would be his successor there) of not only conciliating priests but identifying himself with the chief god in the traditional manner of native kings since immemorial time; and there is no doubt that the cult of himself, which he appears to have enjoined increasingly on his followers, his subjects and his allies, as time went on, was consciously devised to meet and captivate the religiosity of the East.
— from The Ancient East by D. G. (David George) Hogarth

"Well, we must get one ourselves, Gundelchen, since these pious Christians cannot summon this much of neighborly kindness," said the young man, as he set the woman gently down upon the pavement, and, crossing his hands with those of the girl, raised the mother again on this swinging litter, bidding her put her arms around their necks.
— from At the Ghost Hour. The House of the Unbelieving Thomas by Paul Heyse

Their head is but moderately oblong, not keel shaped.
— from Anthropological Survey in Alaska by Aleš Hrdlička

There are also many other native kraals situated on all the branches of this river down to the Zambese, and along its banks, Senna being the most important, where there are several hills that skirt it.
— from Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon in South Africa: Sport and Travel in South Africa by Andrew A. Anderson

This realistic point of view is not different from the outlook of the primitive man who, awed by the might of nature, kneels submissively before its invisible power, which, he thinks, controls these forces.
— from The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile