As already mentioned, the objection to the use of coke is the sulphur, phosphates, and siliceous matters it contains.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge
Some passages are surprisingly modern in character, and the whole composition possesses much of the dignity of the finest German chorales.
— from The World's Earliest Music Traced to Its Beginnings in Ancient Lands by Collected Evidence of Relics, Records, History, and Musical Instruments from Greece, Etruria, Egypt, China, Through Asyria and Babylonia, to the Primitive Home, the Land of Akkad and Sumer by Hermann Smith
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