"Uncle Robert, you are perfectly provoking!" exclaimed Rachel, jumping up, and taking the paper away from him
— from Marion Berkley: A Story for Girls by Elizabeth B. (Elizabeth Barker) Comins
‘Caido ya por entonces Alberoni de su grandeza, expelido ignominiosamente de España, y aun perseguido por el Rey en Italia, preso en Roma por orden del Papa, etc., no era dificil atribuirle culpas agenas ó no cometidas.’ Note in Ortiz , Compendio , vol.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle
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