I say, tune up, now, something real rowdy,—quick!”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Those impostors then, whom they style Mathematicians, I consulted without scruple; because they seemed to use no sacrifice, nor to pray to any spirit for their divinations: which art, however, Christian and true piety consistently rejects and condemns.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

It was a regrettable occurrence; nevertheless we were not able to take it as a personal sorrow, and his recovery somehow seemed to us needlessly swift.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

Now different counsels every breast divide, Each burns with rancour to the adverse side; The unquiet night strange projects entertain'd (So Jove, that urged us to our fate, ordain'd).
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Lira, the heroine, answers her ardent lover Mirando in high-flown Spanish phrase, which, when summed up in plain English prose, means that she cannot listen to his wooing, because she is so hungry—which, in view of the fact that she has not tasted food for weeks, seems to us not surprising!
— from A Short History of Spain by Mary Platt Parmele

Mr. Baldwin of Georgia said that the clause in the U.S. Constitution relating to direct taxes "was intended to prevent Congress from laying any special tax upon negro slaves, as they might, in this way, so burthen the possessors of them, as to induce a GENERAL EMANCIPATION."
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

"Angelika," said the latter, "we must hurry, so that Uncle Neuenstein shall not wait for his tea.
— from Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern

What they were droning about it was impossible to guess; for if one stationed oneself close to any particular rapt young woman, she seemed to utter no sound, but simply and without ceasing to peg and unpeg holes at random among the thousands of holes before her, apparently in obedience to the signaling of faint, tiny lights that in thousands continually expired and were rekindled.
— from Your United States: Impressions of a first visit by Arnold Bennett

That the historic Jesus is something [pg 004] different from the Jesus Christ of the doctrine of the Two Natures seems to us now self-evident.
— from The Quest of the Historical Jesus A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede by Albert Schweitzer

Through Zen we annihilate Time and see the Universe not split up into myriad fragments, but in its primal unity.
— from Zen Buddhism, and Its Relation to Art by Arthur Waley