Finally the people of Europe began to wake up and look at things for themselves, instead of tamely accepting whatever the Pope of Rome or somebody else told them, and going and coming as he directed, regardless of whether it was for their interest to do so or not.
— from The Book of the Ocean by Ernest Ingersoll

The sequel of his reign shews that he took himself to be invested with the whole ecclesiastical power, legislative as well as executive; nay, that he was willing to extend his acknowledged right of supremacy even to the ancient papal infallibility, as appears from his sovereign decisions in all matters of faith and doctrine.
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 4 (of 8) by Richard Hurd

"'By the right that I gave him, by the right that is his to walk with me,' I said; for I grew defiant, and felt a renewal of strength, enough to tell Abraham the truth.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The annals of British chivalry contain no more romantic or splendid entries than those associated with Sir James Douglas , alternately styled the "Good" and the "Black," hero of seventy battles and the victor in fifty-seven, peerless as a raider, who crowned a glorious career by his mission to Palestine with the embalmed heart of Bruce , and his death in action against the Moors.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-06-30 by Various

I can't make out why the Rose of Sharon ever took to a near-sighted United Irishman."
— from A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by William Henry Venable