He falters some, it is true; but there was no sweat of blood as in Gethsemane, nor exclamation upon the cross, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!”
— from The Brothers' War by John C. (John Calvin) Reed

The lay of the land, as Ned remarked of it, had provided all that beforehand, and it gave no especial advantage to either army.
— from Ned, the son of Webb: What he did. by William O. Stoddard

If we consider the number that appear to have settled in Scotland, the length of time they have been in Scotland, the great amount of white blood that has, by one means or other, been brought into, and mixed up with, the body, and its great natural encrease; the feelings that attach them to their descent—feelings that originate, more properly, within themselves, and feelings that press upon them from without—the various occupations and positions in life in which they are to be found; we cannot set any limit to their number.
— from A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language by Walter Simson