Spain was the old enemy, the land which had sent out the Great Armada, and which in every way had fostered the most militant and uncompromising elements of English Catholicism; France, if unfortunately it had not fulfilled the promise it had once given of becoming a Protestant country, was Catholic in another and a far less rigid sense, and it was remembered that Henrietta was the daughter of the man who had been at one time the hope of the Reformers, and who, if he had deserted his faith with a light-hearted cynicism not often to be Paralleled, had found at the end that the Mass which gained Paris for him could not save him from the knife of the man who was believed to be the pupil of the Jesuits.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes
The proverbial present of a white elephant is Paralleled in bird life by the gift of the cuckoo's egg.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
This was a remarkable feat for so old a man; indeed, it has very rarely been Paralleled, except by Gladstone's recent performances.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt