[T]he fount of Islamic energy . . . : the desire to protect the purity of the Islamic faith and to vindicate its claim to be the final revealed religion on earth.

They all love frugality and conservation; they are manic savers of bits of string and switchers-off of lights.

Is not that hard or stale beer mixed to give the porter the appearance of age at once, which formerly was allowed to be matured by time?

“Why, that is what I say,” cries the landlord, “whenever folks say who knows what may happen! Odsooks! should not I be a blockhead to lend my money to I know not who, because mayhap he may return it again? I am sure it is safe in my own bureau, and there I will keep it.”