He can also, in the case of farming, industry, or commerce, leave his entire property to one of his children, except that the legatee has to pecuniarily indemnify his brothers and sisters.
— from The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander Francis Chamberlain

She had watched the kids at home play on the corner lot; had even played a time or two herself when there weren’t enough without her.
— from Mimi at Sheridan School by Anne Pence Davis

‘As far as I am concerned let him enjoy pardon and impunity for his terrible crime; but after 325 this life may God, that most just avenger of evil deeds, inflict on him the punishment he deserves.’
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2 by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

Then he continues: "By the bye, you know Captain Lawrence has engaged Parshall & Garter.
— from Miss Dividends: A Novel by Archibald Clavering Gunter

650 “Arguments prooving the Queenes Ma ties propertye in the Sea Landes, and salt shores thereof, and that no subiect cann lawfully hould eny parte thereof but by the Kinges especiall graunte.”
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

Then Mrs. Romayne, still quite colourless, lifted her eyebrows prettily and made a gesture of amazed recognition, and Falconer moved and came slowly towards her.
— from A Valiant Ignorance; vol. 1 of 3 A Novel in Three Volumes by Mary Angela Dickens

It must be admitted, however, that Cicero, in other passages of his works, has given the study of civil law high encomiums, particularly in the following beautiful passage delivered in the person of Crassus: “Senectuti vero celebrandæ et ornandæ quid honestius potest esse perfugium, quàm juris interpretatio?
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. II by John Colin Dunlop

And, as he walked back to the Blakes, Horace hurriedly resolved to teach his cousin that he was not to consider Lottie his exclusive property.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 20, No. 33, November 1877 by Various