The citizens of neutral countries have always had the right to travel on the merchant vessels of belligerents, subject, of course, to the risk of capture and detention.
— from From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy by John Holladay Latané

This is the chief city of North Carolina, having about twenty thousand people, and is located on the Cape Fear River twenty-six miles from its mouth.
— from America, Volume 2 (of 6) by Joel Cook

It was no easy matter taking an observation, owing to the liveliness of the floating sleigh, but when Ranworth had worked out his position and had pin-pricked it on a very incomplete chart of the south coast of Nova Cania, he announced that the Bird of Freedom was eighty miles to the westward of Desolation Inlet.
— from 'Midst Arctic Perils: A Thrilling Story of Adventure in the Polar Regions by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

You, nor any other man, clergyman or no clergyman, have any right to be the judge of my conduct."
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Crowds of nobles conducted him amid jeering cries to a distance beyond the camp.
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Thinking that he referred to himself these children of Nature contemplated his angular form doubtfully and shook their heads.
— from When the World Shook Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

If, however, the hæmal canal became prolonged forwards by the formation of some additional complete or nearly complete hæmal arches, an alteration in the relation of the parts would necessarily take place.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

Whether a settled, private church member may not at once continue his very formal relation to the pastor of that church, and yet be of the same order with him in another church, as their pastor, at the same time, (as he may in case of necessity continue his apprenticeship or civil service,) is a case that I will not determine.
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter

Renewed commotion outside now caught his attention, and he returned to the side of his friends.
— from Where Duty Called; or, In Honor Bound by George Waldo Browne