There were crowds of boys sitting and standing close round them, every one could hear exactly what was being said, and every one, David made no doubt, was saving it up for exact reproduction afterwards.
— from David Blaize by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Quick, soft music began as if at a signal from a magician, and at the same time such a flood of light burst down into the theatre that every one covered his eyes with his hand to avoid being blinded.
— from A Thorny Path — Volume 09 by Georg Ebers
[876] has also experimented on the effects of copper; his experiments were made on both animals and men.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth
This is the very constitution of hypocrisy, so well personified by the Pope, who, while calling himself the lowest servant of the servants of God —in token whereof, following the example of Christ, he even washes once a year the feet of twelve Roman beggars—proclaims himself at the same time vicar of God, absolute and infallible master of the world.
— from God and the State by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
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