He is believed to have endured a fast of forty days and nights in Scotland, England, and Italy.
— from In Byways of Scottish History by Louis A. Barbé

He could not avoid taking him, but did so with a very ill grace, advising him to give up drinking, and not imitate Sir Ellis Leighton or Mr. Ellis, ‘the first having ruined Lord Berkeley, and the other, the blackest and most corrupt of villains, my Lord Arran.’
— from Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 3 (of 3), 1660-1690 by Richard Bagwell

[ 27 ] Nial-Caille, the last monarch of Ireland, of the house of O'Neil, after having defeated the Danes and Normans in several engagements, was drowned in the river Callan in Kilkenny, while engaged in raising the country for their total expulsion.
— from The battle-fields of Ireland, from 1688 to 1691 including Limerick and Athlone, Aughrim and the Boyne. Being an outline history of the Jacobite war in Ireland, and the causes which led to it by Boyle, John, active 1867

Every 279 party is strong enough to thwart and embarrass its opponents, and to obstruct and damage measures it dislikes, and none is strong enough to have its own way, and carry matters with a high hand.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 3 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 by Charles Greville

In the Democritus Ridens , already referred to, under the head of Jocus sub necem , the author gives several anecdotes, more than one of which has been attributed in modern times to some noted criminal: 'Those condemned to death are not infrequently so excited and confused as to lose their wits and joke most improperly.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various