Even if one were not extremely religious she could be an authority on religions, reading up the history of other churches as well as one's own church discipline.
— from The Colored Girl Beautiful by E. Azalia (Emma Azalia) Hackley

Lying on the hills under the old tower of the Rocca, of which nothing else remains, S. Miniato is itself, as it were, a weather-beaten fortress, that was, perhaps, never so beautiful as now, when no one keeps watch or ward.
— from Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour by William Parkinson and Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Edward Hutton