But every day my children come and say: ‘This man is growing harder to endure.
— from The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 2 (of 8) The King's Threshold. On Baile's Strand. Deirdre. Shadowy Waters by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

The man had promised to accompany me willingly, while I had expected a difficult matter in getting him to England.
— from The Weapons of Mystery by Joseph Hocking

It is sufficient to say that when Luca della Robbia's singing gallery was finished, the Florentines realized very well that no mistake had been made in giving him the execution of it, even though he had such great rivals.
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

[10] Consequently it behoves us to confess that if he trusted much in God, he trusted even more in gunshots, or rather, that if it is true that he invoked the name of God, it was because he who is accustomed to deceive men, rises at last to such a degree of folly as to believe that he can even deceive God.
— from Isabella Orsini: A Historical Novel of the Fifteenth Century by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi