For he conquered more territories from the Britons than any other chieftain or king, either subduing the inhabitants and making them tributary, or driving them out and planting the English in their places.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

O'Malley wrote the most illuminating letters concerning Kentucky authors it has been my good fortune to receive; Miller made the most gratifying and surprising additions to my collection of Kentuckiana, exceedingly scarce volumes and pamphlets which he alone seemed able to unearth from the old bookshops of the country.
— from Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 1 of 2 by John Wilson Townsend

If my little wife at home could only know everything, she would be down on her knees praying for your safety.
— from Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea by George Manville Fenn

That element, born of emotion, which, as a crowd of kindred examples show, incarnates, and then deifies the object of its worship, was the belief in the manifestation of the divine through the human Jesus who had borne men’s griefs, carried their sorrows, and offered rest to the weary and heavy-laden.
— from Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Edward Clodd