And whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as Pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the Florentines.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

"That means that you are going to put all the onus of this hideous and cruel misunderstanding on my shoulders, when I explained your expression in charity to all parties, and to help you out."
— from Two Knapsacks: A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by John Campbell

Two or three attended to the work of removing one of the searchlights from "Old Nanc" and putting it into place on top of the moth catcher, while the rest of the boys strung a temporary line of wire from the headquarters' switchboard to a point about two hundred yards up the road.
— from The Boy Scout Fire Fighters by Irving Crump

Observing us they made friendly demonstrations, but I had not implicit faith in a Pit River Indian at that period of the settlement of our country, and especially in that wild locality, so after a "council of war" with the corporal and man, I concluded to advance to a point about two hundred yards distant from the party, when, relying on the speed of our horses rather than on the peaceable intentions of the savages, I hoped to succeed in cutting around them and take the trail beyond.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 1 by Philip Henry Sheridan

Formed of polished stones and pebbles, about two hundred yards in width, flat-topped, with steeply sloping sides, at this distance it has the appearance of a narrow yellow road or causeway between the open sea on one hand and the waters of the Fleet, a narrow lake ten miles long, on the other.
— from Afoot in England by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

"Yes, but it wouldn't be right to ask you to a party and then have you bring your own things to eat," objected Mrs. Lightfoot.
— from Sammie and Susie Littletail by Howard Roger Garis

The remains are those of an Indian, whose death is placed by some authorities at as recent a period as two hundred years ago.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 692 March 31, 1877 by Various

The enemy in front of Wood having been checked, our whole line east of the railroad executed undisturbed its retrograde movement to a position about three hundred yards to its rear.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 1 by Philip Henry Sheridan

The advantages which accompany the study of anatomy, physiology, and therapeutics have yet to be more largely applied to the diseases of the dog, and until this has been accomplished, science, not reposing upon truth, will be constantly subjected to change.
— from The Dog by W. N. (William Nelson) Hutchinson

CHAPTER V BREAKFAST FOR TWO The Higgledy-Piggledy Shop was fortunate in having so many partners or near-partners, for Josie O'Gorman was destined to be very busy for many days in looking into the mystery of Peter and Polly and the handsome young woman of the arches.
— from Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman by Emma Speed Sampson