“Well, if this is what that man calls being 'comfortably indifferent,' I'd hate to try the un comfortable kind,” she muttered with emphasis.
— from Miss Billy — Married by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

“Give me that umbrella,” cried Keziah, snatching the great gingham from his hand.
— from Midnight Webs by George Manville Fenn

1: Although some who are the slaves of carnal vices are at times capable of subtle considerations about intelligible things, on account of the perfection of their natural genius, or of some habit superadded thereto, nevertheless, on account of the pleasures of the body, it must needs happen that their attention is frequently withdrawn from this subtle contemplation: wherefore the unclean can know some truths, but their uncleanness is a clog on their knowledge.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint