The people were at their doors in the evening to talk over the rebellion of '45 when the rebels reached Derby, and even listened at intervals to fancy they heard the French rebels at Northampton, knocking it down with their cannon.
— from Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by John Clare

He may be finally rejected and not know it, just as some men have been on probation and have not known it until they suddenly found themselves accepted.
— from Letters That Have Helped Me by Julia Wharton Lewis Campbell Ver Planck Keightley