It is not a vital, living interest, such as a Greek felt in his own work.
— from Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe

Some even enjoy the grim joke that were the English to withdraw now, there would be neither a rupee nor a virgin left in some parts of the country.
— from Young India An interpretation and a history of the nationalist movement from within by Lala Lajpat Rai

The troubles of the Great Schism had allowed the heretics to flourish almost unnoticed and unmolested, but after the Church had healed its dissensions at Constance and had entered upon a new and vigorous life, it set to work in earnest to eradicate them.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea