She would not believe it; she redoubled in tenderness, and Rodolphe concealed his indifference less and less.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The young girl who was talking lay surrounded by pillows in a wide, old-fashioned bed in the American Red Cross hospital in Luxemburg.
— from The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory by Margaret Vandercook

The child is asked to change a cross into suffering, a crown into victory, a red cardboard heart into life, and a picture of Jesus Christ pinned upon it into regeneration.
— from The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training by Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux

Speculation became madness; and riotous commercialism had its little hour of strut and rave.
— from Winning the Wilderness by Margaret Hill McCarter

Captain Lee, an English officer, quartered in Ulster, in a very interesting letter to the queen written about this time, assures her confidentially that, although a Roman Catholic, he "is less dangerously or hurtfully so than some of the greatest in the English Pale," for that when he accompanied the Lord-deputy to church "he will stay and hear a sermon;" whereas they "when they have reached the church door depart as if they were wild cats."
— from The Story of Ireland by Emily Lawless

It was by departure from the Lord, and alliance with the heathen, that the Jewish church became a harlot; and Rome, corrupting herself in like manner by seeking the support of worldly powers, receives a like condemnation.
— from The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White