But life is more pleasant to me where justice and equality prevail universally.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

In each of these examples, a substantive in the possessive case modifies the subject by limiting its meaning precisely as an adjective would do.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Would not it be lovely if Mrs. Pratt could meet us there?
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Then after, be the great compass devised by lines in many parts, and that all the lines meet at the centre.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

The wild beast latent in man peers forth in sleep.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

But my standing possessed of only three-halfpence in the world (and I am sure I wonder how they came to be left in my pocket on a Saturday night!)
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The height of the broken line above the base line is made proportional to the percent of the group that made the score indicated just below along the base line.
— from Psychology: A Study Of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth

"Oh, please don't be angry, but lend it me," pleaded the boy.
— from Lone Pine: The Story of a Lost Mine by R. B. (Richard Baxter) Townshend

The little seeming tooth that projects from the middle of the posterior margin in the upper wings of Notodonta , a subgenus of Bombyx L., is merely produced by some longer diverging hairs.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

Therefore to be loved is more proper to charity.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Agamemnon took them all helplessly; all his virtuous indignation had evaporated, and he looked very red and foolish as he said with a kind of nervous laugh, 'You've been looking in my pockets!'
— from The Black Poodle, and Other Tales by F. Anstey

"When the blonde lady is my prisoner, I shall be master of the situation."
— from The Blonde Lady Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsène Lupin and the English Detective by Maurice Leblanc

"Well, if you feel like speculating in building lots, I might put you wise."
— from Carmen's Messenger by Harold Bindloss

"Come," I said, "you can play what pranks you please with the little May; but light is my province, my absorption; let it alone."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various