The opposition of the Reformation to art has been often enlarged upon; far greater was that of the Catholic revival.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

He was happy; but on entering upon family life he saw at every step that it was utterly different from what he had imagined.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

To other uses: The Root of an old thorn is excellent both for boxes and combs, and is curiously and naturally wrought: I have read, that they made ribs to some small boats or vessels with the white-thorn, and it is certain, that if they would plant them single, and in standards, where they might be safe, they would rise into large body’d trees in time, and be of excellent use for the turner, not inferior to box, and accounted among the fortunate trees, and therefore us’d in fasces nuptiarum , since the jolly shepherds carryed the white-thorn at the rapine of the Sabines; and ever since counted 192:1 propitious.
— from Sylva; Or, A Discourse of Forest Trees. Vol. 1 (of 2) by John Evelyn

Mr. Smithers, the President of the Board of Trade, offered his services to the visitors and answered questions with such confidence and pointed out the advantages of the place so convincingly that the Board of Experts unanimously favored the bill.
— from Barry Wynn; Or, The Adventures of a Page Boy in the United States Congress by George Barton

And remember that these temptations proceeded not only from adventurous buccaneering acquaintances in the taverns of that evil haven of Tortuga, but even from M. d'Ogeron, the governor of the island, who levied as his harbour dues a percentage of one tenth of all spoils brought into the bay, and who profited further by commissions upon money which he was desired to convert into bills of exchange upon France.
— from Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

To put it the other way around, the DMCA subtracts from the citizen's bundle of entitlements under federal copyright law, the right (technically, lawyers would call it a privilege) to gain access to a work legally in his possession for the purpose of making a fair use.
— from The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle

The difficulty is disguised by ordinary examples, used for the sake of convenience.
— from Logic: Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

When Richmond, orderly in all, had battlèd his aid, Inringèd by his complices, their cheerful leader said: 'Now is the time and place (sweet friends) and we the persons be That must give England breath, or else unbreathe for her must we.
— from A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury