In this profession Yan's venerating and custom-regarding nature compelled him to act as leaders of blind beggars had acted throughout all historical times and far back into the dim recesses of legendary epochs and this, in an era when the leisurely habits of the past were falling into disuse, and when rivals and competitors were springing up on all sides, tended almost daily to decrease the proceeds of his labour and to sow an insidious doubt even in his unquestioning mind.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc
A girl who once loves a man, not indeed old, but much older than herself, loves him with such a looking up and venerating love!
"Ernest Maltravers, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
From that moment Clarence looked upon him with the grateful and venerating love of a son; and I question very much, if Talbot had really been the father of our hero, whether he would have liked so handsome a successor half so well.
"The Disowned, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton