[4291] I saw (saith he) a melancholy man at Rome, that by no remedies could be healed, but when by chance he was wounded in the head, and the skull broken, he was excellently cured.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Now, as London, the city I was going to, happened to be the capital of Anna Maria County, my boy, I made up my mind that the sacred soil had as many metropolises as railways.
— from The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

But with Scoutmaster Hastings and Miss Mercer as referees, and three summer visitors from the Loon Pond Hotel, who had no prejudice in favor of either side as judges, several contests were arranged that called for skill rather than strength.
— from The Camp Fire Girls at Long Lake; Or, Bessie King in Summer Camp by Jane L. Stewart

She had, after much misgiving and reluctance, made up her mind to approach her distant relative with the mortgage proposition, but to discuss that proposition with strangers was, to her mind, very different.
— from Thankful's Inheritance by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

One day she showed him a Miraculous Medal, and related its origin.
— from The Miraculous Medal: Its Origin, History, Circulation, Results by Jean Marie Aladel

A new glory had shone into my life for a short hour and made me all resplendent with its gold—but the light had gone out and the darkness hung like a pall about my soul.
— from In Search of Mademoiselle by George Gibbs