The Catholic Church, which proclaims herself the channel of life, to-day chains and stifles all that lives youthfully within her, to-day seeks to prop all that is tottering and aged within her, To us these things mean death, distant, but inevitable death.
"The Saint"
Antonio Fogazzaro Commentator: William Roscoe Thayer
Hrothgar sprang up joyously, almost youthfully, and ordered his horse to be saddled; then, with Beowulf beside him, and a mixed throng of Geats and Danes following, he rode away towards the home of the monsters, the dread lake which all men shunned.
"Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race"
Maud Isabel Ebbutt
Prince Murat, noticing the old general skipping about so youthfully, proposed a Virginia reel, with a view to giving them a little more exercise.
"In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875."
L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone