It was here at the Bield that the Covenanters thought once to trap Claverhouse; but that "proud Assyrian" rode not easily into snares.
— from Highways and Byways in the Border Illustrated by Andrew Lang

They feared that any real national effort, if successful, would get altogether beyond their control, and that they would lose the power that enabled them to enrich themselves at the expense of the people.
— from With Moore at Corunna by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The orator was a man who, by his deep philosophy, his poetic genius, his broad patriotism, his love for England, her great literature and history, had won for himself a reputation not equalled in some respects by any other citizen of the United States of these later times.
— from Our Intellectual Strength and Weakness A Short Historical and Critical Review of Literature, Art and Education in Canada by John George Bourinot

He looked rather downcast when I last saw him, and refused nourishment either in solid or liquid form.
— from The Statesmen Snowbound by Robert Fitzgerald

I am really not equal—" "I see!
— from The Lost Lady of Lone by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth