Who would have imagined that there was still such a uniformly powerful effusion of the simplest political sentiments, the most natural domestic [Pg 158] instincts and the primitive manly delight in strife in this very people after it had been shaken to its foundations for several generations by the most violent convulsions of the Dionysian demon?
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

[2] le da, a primera vista, cierto aspecto de homogeneidad que desaparece cuando la mirada sagaz ahonda un poco en aquel mar revuelto en que se mezclan y confunden todas las clases.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

E A strange artist, Utrillo, personal enough, just as Modigliani was handsome enough, to satisfy the exigences of the most romantic melodrama, with a touch of madness and an odd nostalgic passion—expressing itself in an inimitable white—for the dank and dirty whitewash and cheap cast-iron of the Parisian suburbs.
— from Since Cézanne by Clive Bell

Habits died hard, and the old methods were changed slowly and under protest, even when these changes spelled progress.
— from Time Telling through the Ages by Harry Chase Brearley

We should thus, however, run the risk of again falling into the hands of the Spaniards, and Uncle Paul especially was very unwilling to trust to their tender mercies.
— from The Wanderers; Or, Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco by William Henry Giles Kingston

They were young fellows, and country persons, like Lapham, by origin, and they looked out with the same amused, undaunted provincial eyes at the myriad metropolitan legs passing on the pavement above the level of their window.
— from The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells

Besides his exquisite taste, his severe love of beauty, and his marvellous power of expressing the highest ideals of pure form, he had one thing which linked him to all the other great men whose lives we have here recounted—his steadfast and unconquerable personal energy.
— from Biographies of Working Men by Grant Allen

It is not for us to examine this question here, but there is no doubt that damp steam alone, under pressure, effects a perfect disinfection, and that if this mode of disinfection could be applied in the rural districts (as it can be easily done in cities), the public health would be better protected in case of an epidemic.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 by Various

Ye seen that—that—plague upon earth, Kate Kavanagh, afore ye wint to Waxford, an’ she, as ushial, put every wise thought out ov yer head.
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 32, February 6, 1841 by Various

My brother-in-law, Charles, is an excellent fellow, full to the brim of small plans and designs for his parish; my sister is a very simple and unworldly person, entirely devoted to her husband and children.
— from The Upton Letters by Arthur Christopher Benson