Nothing else was talked of; nobody would talk of anything but the negro.
— from The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 1: Essays, Sketches, and Letters by Artemus Ward

The efforts of the conservative Maskilim were not devoid of some good results, nor even were those of Nicholas, though aimed at Christianizing rather than civilizing, entirely wasted.
— from The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. (Jacob Salmon) Raisin

The peculiar odor of petroleum pervaded everything; the air for miles was fairly saturated with it; nothing else was thought of; nothing else was talked about.
— from Birds and All Nature, Vol. 6, No. 3, October 1899 Illustrated by Color Photography by Various

“No epithet was too outrageous, no charge was too farfetched, no manipulation or interpretation of evidence was too daring to enter into his ferocious indictment.
— from Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller