[…] the commonplace Communist simply loses his temper if you venture to doubt whether everything is being done in precisely the best and most intelligent way under the new régime. He is like a tetchy housewife who wants you to recognise that everything is in perfect order in the middle of an eviction.

1979, Gary M. Walton, James F. Shepherd, The economic rise of early America (page 210)

She was a native and essential cook, as much as Aunt Chloe,—cooking being an indigenous talent of the African race.

[C]hildren, ſervants, are falſe, fraudful, foul, if the miſanthropic man, who is father and maſter, lets fall among them, in his outbreaks of paſſion, his opinion that they are ſo.