But those who have observed how, unless thwarted by unfavorable circumstances, every religious order in the church stamps its character upon all that pertains to it, will feel that there must have existed a synthesis between the inhabitants of San Martino and the place itself, and that the white-robed Carthusians were in the very home which was specially appropriate to them, and in all ways suited their devotional and intellectual tendencies.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

We are stumbling forward, following blindly the leading of a blind fate, and cutting the ground behind us, closing every retreat.
— from The Bigamist by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young

Then, while the instrument was being tuned and Barboza began to sway his body about, and talking ceased, a gaucho named Marcos but usually called El Rengo on account of his lameness, pushed himself into the crowd surrounding the great man and seated himself on a table and put his foot of his lame leg on the bench below.
— from Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson