Date: 1799

"They thought and acted in different but not discordant keys."

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1799

"I never cried in my life, sine I was knee-high, but curse me if I ever felt in better tune for the business than just then."

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 2010

"The sounds came from everywhere, filled up her mind like a chorus, ricocheting like the sound of gunfire, like the gunfire in the field, like her mother's voice crying from the doorway."

— Cronin, Justin