The German nobleman of the fairest gifts and prospects turns out, on investigation, to have been a German blackguard, whom debauchery and riotous extravagance had reduced to want; who took to the highway, when he could take to nothing else,—not allured by an ebullient enthusiasm, or any heroical and misdirected appetite for sublime actions, but driven by the more palpable stimulus of importunate duns, an empty purse, and five craving senses.
— from The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Thomas Carlyle

The good news which had delighted and relieved everyone had reached him in the most dramatic and striking manner.
— from Ian Hamilton's March by Winston Churchill