It's unchristian, actually unchristian—isn't it?” A slight gesture seemed to say that he agreed with her; but she was for once determined to be answered more definitely, and she said, “I'm sure, as a clergyman, you can say if there's anything in the Bible against my having another husband?” “I 'm certain there is not, madam.” “How nice it is in the Church of Rome that when there 's anything you want to do, and it's not quite right to do it, you can have a dispensation—that is, the Pope can make it perfectly moral and proper, and legal besides.
— from The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever

Taking advantage of the situation of the ground, about five miles from Trim, he threw up some field works, placed sixty men in Portlester mill, and patiently awaited the advance of the enemy.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Such works as Unto this Last and Munera Pulveris , however keen the mental antagonism they may initially provoke, mark a period in the spiritual life of the reader: no matter what the prepossessions of a man may be, these books will modify them.
— from Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes

No man is perfect; many are perfect in parts; some are almost perfect.
— from Lines in Pleasant Places: Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by William Senior