what literary chiffonnier , raking in the scandalous annals of any profession, cannot find filth and corruption?) is likely enough, but that the corruption was either so black or so general as party spirit would have us believe, is contrary to all analogy, and is unsupported by impartial and contemporary evidence.”
— from The Eve of the Reformation Studies in the Religious Life and Thought of the English people in the Period Preceding the Rejection of the Roman jurisdiction by Henry VIII by Francis Aidan Gasquet

When I watched my child among her pillows, so much better that she prattled of great plans to be [Pg 7] carried out on the far away Coast, I loved even then the land.
— from Mariposilla: A Novel by Mary Stewart Daggett