The terms "class-conscious" and "class-consciousness," "national" and "racial" consciousness are now familiar terms to students although they seem to have been used, first of all, by the so-called [Pg 41] "intelligentsia", who have been the leaders in the various types of mass movement to which these terms apply.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Martin was not a remarkable classic and never learned to sympathise with the somewhat pedantic traditions of a classical training, nor had he the imitative faculty necessary for the composition of good prose and verse in Greek or Latin; his work was always sound and often interesting; but he never acquired the infallible dexterity of touch which is the fruit of perfect sympathy with classical modes of thought and expression.
— from Years of Plenty by Ivor John Carnegie Brown

How they took off His own clothes and put on Him now a red cloak and now a white; how they put a sword of lath in His hand, and a crown of thorns on His head; how they bowed the knee before Him, and asked royal favours from Him; and then how they spat in His face, and struck Him on the cheek, while the whole house rang with shouts of laughter.
— from Bunyan Characters (1st Series) by Alexander Whyte

Grant to us now a refreshing, Come, and now honor thy Word.
— from The Otterbein Hymnal For Use in Public and Social Worship by Edmund S. (Edmund Simon) Lorenz