An excursion such as this to Killarney, brings the people who are included in it, so informally and so constantly together as to preclude the possibility, I should think, of neutral feelings at parting.
— from Blue-Stocking Hall, (Vol. 2 of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

In proof of the existence of the custom Mr. Frazer adduces an Australian parallel: 'In some tribes of New South Wales the first-born child of every woman was eaten by the [Pg 54] tribe as part of a religious ceremony.'
— from Magic and Religion by Andrew Lang

We have been wont to think of all the British as aristocrats, while they have returned the compliment by visualizing all Americans as plutocrats—despite the fact that one-tenth of our population is said to own nine-tenths of all our wealth!
— from A Traveller in War-Time by Winston Churchill

Despite the late recasting, 34 the proportions are Norman, and the very core of the pillars is still the original Norman stonework.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Philip Walsingham Sergeant

Amiens is a fine old town, they say of 60,000 inhabitants; but unless they are closely packed, I should think of not more than 40,000.
— from Peregrine in France: A Lounger's Journal, in Familiar Letters to His Friend by William Bromet

Steamships and looms and printing presses and railways have been supplied, wireless telegraph furnishings have lately been arranged throughout, and we have put in speaking tubes on nearly all the continents, and it looks—as seen from Mount Tom, at least, as if the planet were just being finished up, now, for a Great Author.
— from The Voice of the Machines An Introduction to the Twentieth Century by Gerald Stanley Lee

Time's Revenges may perhaps be classified with these utterances of individual passion, though in form it is more closely connected with the poems I shall touch on next.
— from An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Arthur Symons

No—nothing stirring but stagnation, as some fellow said in a play I saw the other night.
— from Charlotte's Inheritance by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

In his "Essay on the Operas after the Italian Manners," Dennis writes (1706): "If that is truly the most Gothic, which is the most oppos'd to Antick, nothing can be more Gothick than an Opera, since nothing can be more oppos'd to the ancient Tragedy, than the modern Tragedy in Musick, because the one is reasonable, the other ridiculous; the one is artful, the other absurd; the one beneficial, the other pernicious; in short, the one natural and the other monstrous.
— from The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield by Edward Robins