The Upádhyáya marvelled at such fervour, and knew Him to be Krishna himself and not a mortal.
— from Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmi

I liked him, I thought him charming, from the first of our knowing him; and now, after more than a year, he has done nothing to spoil it.
— from The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 by Henry James

It's kept him awake nights and made him miserable, so naturally he felt entitled to a good deal of sympathy.
— from Green Valley by Katharine Yirsa Reynolds

King Hezekiah, apparently not a man of much personal force, though of sincere piety, was naturally distracted by the counsels of these three parties: and who can judge him severely if, beset with such terrific dangers, he occasionally wavered, now to one side, now to the other?
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Kings by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar