Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Quae cum in obiecto cuncta scuto haesissent, neque ille minus obstinatus ingenti 15 pontem obtineret gradu , iam impetu conabantur detrudere virum, cum simul fragor rupti pontis, simul clamor Romanorum alacritate perfecti operis sublatus, pavore subito impetum sustinuit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

The nature of the electric utilities industry is such that about 90 per cent of all power generation and distribution is intrastate in character, and most of the States have developed their own regulatory systems as to certificates of convenience, rates, and profits of such utilities.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Herbert Hoover

I was compelled to pass the principal square in the center of the city before I could reach a place of safety.
— from The Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth? by M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) Mangasarian

We call this reasoning in man, and, nevertheless, it closely resembles a piece of subjective mechanism, which is blind at starting, and which adapts itself to objective representations with such promptitude, that consciousness seems to follow, not to precede, its operations.
— from The Cat: Its Natural History; Domestic Varieties; Management and Treatment by Philip M. Rule

If one child receives a present of some nicety, he is required to share it with all his brothers and sisters.
— from A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Catharine Esther Beecher

The report spread through Pesth that Lamberg had come to seize the citadel and bombard the town; and before he could reach a place of safety he was attacked and murdered by a raging mob.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

It seemed scarcely possible that he could reach a place of safety before he was overtaken.
— from The Two Supercargoes; Or, Adventures in Savage Africa by William Henry Giles Kingston

Only one other of his crew reached a place of safety.
— from Pike & Cutlass: Hero Tales of Our Navy by George Gibbs

I knew the nature of Sir Jonas very well, and saw that flight would mean disaster long before she could reach any place of safety.
— from The Way of a Man by Emerson Hough