Infected by the malignant frenzy of the orator, the audience would groan and sob and scream in an orgy of uninhibited passion. And these orgies were so enjoyable that most of those who had experienced them eagerly came back for more.

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Consider also:

  1. “Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace. I came with a sword.”
  2. “So you think I’m mad?” said Conway at length. Mallinson broke into a nervous laugh. “Well, I should damn well say so, after a tale like that. I mean … well, really … such utter nonsense … it seems to me rather beyond arguing about.”
  3. “The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.”
  4. “It’s Chung Fu,” Juliana said. “Inner Truth. I know without using the chart, too. And I know what it means.” Raising his head, Hawthorne scrutinized her. He had now an almost savage expression. “It means, does it, that my book is true?” “Yes,” she said. With anger he said, “Germany and Japan lost the war.” “Yes.”
  5. “It was a form of insanity. It was wonderful! Being in church was probably like this, he thought. They were like one whole creature.”