It is easy to write books to explain such doctrines; but the difficulty consists in making them understood in the same way by the wretched father of a family, who, confined all the day to hard labor, plunged into an unwholesome atmosphere, or buried in the bowels of the earth to work in a coal-mine, can scarcely earn the subsistence of himself and his family; and who, returning in the evening to his squalid abode, instead of repose and consolation, finds only the complaints of his wife and the tears of his children, asking him for a mouthful of bread.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

THE GOTHS: THEODOSIUS I.—Towards the close of the fourth century, when Valens (364-378) was reigning in the East, the Huns moved from their settlements north of the Caspian, defeated the Alans , a powerful nation, and, compelling them to enter their service, invaded the empire of the Ostrogoths , then ruled by Hermanric .
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

[Pg 47 ] kindness and that the other fellow, if approached rightly, will respond in the end to his own mood.
— from News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle) Spencer

We reached, in the evening, the house of the last civilised settler on the river, Senhor Joao (John) Aracú, a wiry, active fellow and capital hunter, whom I wished to make a friend of and persuade to accompany me to the Mundurucú village and the falls of the Cuparí, some forty miles further up the river.
— from The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates