What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
Walter ScottCertainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.
Walter ScottThere are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned amid scenes of revelry and idle vanity; there are those, too, who have heard its "still small voice" amid rural leisure and placid retirement. But perhaps the knowledge which causeth not to err is most frequently impressed upon the mind during the season of affliction.
Walter Scott