The wind blew a gale every hour of the day spent on Mountain Pond, and you can safely write the sign of equation between the results of that day’s toil and those secured by Peter and his companions engaged in a similar enterprise.
— from Days in the Open by Lathan A. (Lathan Augustus) Crandall

From the perusal of those letters, Mr. Allen first conceived the desire of knowing him; and with so much zeal did he cultivate the friendship which he had newly formed, that, when Pope told his purpose of vindicating his own property by a genuine edition, he offered to pay the cost.
— from Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope by Samuel Johnson