For tho sheep are falling into few and powerful hands; and these, if they have not a monopoly, have at least an oligopoly, and can keep up the price.

Sitting Bull, on horseback, with his brother behind him, counts coup on the soldier, and adds a new feather to his war bonnet and variety to the color of his legging fringes.

The smoke hung in the room.

Thus, the opening citation, the eleventh section of The Case of Wagner, the passage which perhaps is the zenith of [Friedrich] Nietzsche's irony, is succeeded by the brief agonic cry of the twelfth section: […]