"A lion that growls frightfully and acts very ferocious when you are outside the cage may be one of the easiest to handle and get work out of when once you are actually in the cage; and on the other hand, a lion that is mean and dangerous to do anything with in the cage may be exceptionally docile from the outside and allow you to pet him freely."
— from Seeing Things at Night by Heywood Broun

Hidden, over by the ancient chapel it might be, one of this evil twain had struck down Morris, the constable; from the shelter of the trees, from many yards away, they had shot their singular missiles through the open windows at Bristol and myself.
— from The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer

An hour afterward, a eunuch brought her, by order of the emperor, the heads of the young princesses.
— from History of the Moors of Spain by Florian

Its source might have been one of three elements: The High Command (a military dictatorship), the Bourgeois State Duma (the Provisional Government), or the Revolutionary Democracy (the Soviet).
— from The Russian Turmoil; Memoirs: Military, Social, and Political by Anton Ivanovich Denikin

Cowardice has succeeded to courage, disorder to discipline; the place of the statesman is usurped by the demagogue; and instead of a nation of heroes, marshalled under the supremacy of the wise and good, modern Athens presents to view a disordered and competitive mob, bent only on turning each to his own personal advantage the now corrupt machinery of administration and law.
— from The Greek View of Life by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson

By order of the emperor they had been granted permission to buy everything they wanted, and to conduct business in the city, but, on the advice of this prince, they were forbidden to cross the Arm of Saint George, which was the sea that provided border with the Turks, because he said that it was sure destruction for so few men to go up against so many.
— from The Deeds of God Through the Franks by Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy Guibert

Charles bounded out of the enclosure, threw his arms round Marie, and covered her cheek with kisses; so delighted was he with her for coming, as he thought, to see how the work went on, without even waiting till he went for her.
— from The Peasant and the Prince by Harriet Martineau