Many a one here is born to a fair estate; and is stripped of it, whether by the just disherison of his offended Father, or else by the power or circumvention of an adversary, or by his own mis-government and unthriftiness.

Similarly, in the 1920s, Radclyffe Hall, a lesbian author, wrote The Well of Loneliness, in which she called for sympathy and understanding for the third sex of inverts such as herself, trapped in the wrong body, who could not help their condition […]

A mischiefe take thy tatling tongue, the Raven answerde tho. / Thy vaine forspeaking moves me not. And so he forth did go …

George Bush's unexpected troubles represented what some began to see as a Jimmy Carterization of the Bush presidency, taking place in a period that eerily recalled Carter's own travail during a time of national malaise.