The Russian people, sober, are said to be a gentle people.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.