And if He choose this very hour Can strike us dead, with ghastly fear, And vindicate His name and power."
— from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt

Likewise, in relation to his upper and his lower seminary: here are two indispensable nurseries of which he is the head gardener, attentive to filling annual vacancies and seeking proper subjects for these throughout his diocese, ever verifying and cultivating their vocations; he confers scholarships; he dictates rules and regulations; appoints and dismisses, displaces and procures as he pleases, the director and professors; he takes them, if he chooses, out of his diocese or out of the body of regular clergy; he prescribes a doctrine to them, methods, ways of thinking and teaching, and he keeps his eye, beyond his present or future priests, on three or four hundred monks and on fourteen hundred nuns.
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

Up the beach, on the north shore, where the fringe of cocoanut palms concealed the village, he could see the black bows of the canoes in the canoe-houses.
— from A Son Of The Sun by Jack London

The next forenoon Captain Tom varied his customary Sunday routine by taking a stroll through a quarter of the city with which he had but slight acquaintance, and casually dropping in at the station house of [Pg 168] the precinct wherein Larry claimed former residence.
— from From Headquarters: Odd Tales Picked up in the Volunteer Service by James A. (James Albert) Frye

"Wished to encourage strangers of opulent condition to visit his Capital," say the cunning ones.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Thomas Carlyle