Failure entails liability in damages—known as demurrage —for undue detention of the ship.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Though to my hopeless days for ever lost, In dreams deny me not to see thee here!
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Garcia de Toledo was by no means a favourable specimen of the illustrious race from which he sprang, and was a complete antithesis to La Valette; he was to prove himself in the terrible days that were to come to be sluggish, incompetent, a ruler who could not rule, a person for ever letting “I dare not wait upon I would.”
— from Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean: The grand period of the Moslem corsairs by E. Hamilton (Edward Hamilton) Currey

And what would Clebrig do, and Mudal Water, and all the wide, bleak country that had been brought up in the love of her, and was saturated with the charm of her presence, and seemed for ever listening in deathlike silence for the light music of her voice?
— from White Heather: A Novel (Volume 1 of 3) by William Black

The total number of votes for each list is divided successively by the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., and the results are arrayed thus: Catholic List
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

That Iulus fails to awaken a similar interest, that we do not share his ardour in the chase or the glow of pride with which he lays his first enemy low, is due to the fact that the poet’s imagination fails in the vital realisation of his conception.
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar