There were books in every room, on the staircase, and in every corner of the house, and the Archdeacon knew every one of them, and as soon as a book was mentioned, he went and fetched it.
— from My Autobiography: A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

Others believe that such lives are the outcome of malformation of brain and skull, and yet others have their own pet theories to account for the large number of "repeaters," as they are called in some states, "old-timers," or "habituals," as they are known elsewhere.
— from After Prison--What? by Maud Ballington Booth

Here and there a knight earns special praise from Froissart by pleading for the lives of the unhappy privates who had fought as bravely as himself; but I remember no case of one who actually insisted on sharing the fate of his men.
— from Chaucer and His England by G. G. (George Gordon) Coulton

A diligent perusal of the romances of chivalry filled him with emulation, and he had applied himself ardently to all knightly exercises, looking with great eagerness to the time when he might appear in the Prince's court.
— from The Lances of Lynwood by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge