"I don't pretend to argue with a lady on politics," said Mr. Brooke, with an air of smiling indifference, but feeling rather unpleasantly conscious that this attack of Mrs. Cadwallader's had opened the defensive campaign to which certain rash steps had exposed him.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Meridian in which the Pole is fixed rests upon Clouds that issue out of the Bases, and slides easily between them, its Motion being facilitated by some hidden Wheels, and moves with it the whole Globe to give 132 it the required Elevation.
— from Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy by Edward Luther Stevenson

—There was general agreement that there should be an executive branch; for reliance upon Congress to enforce its own laws and treaties had been a broken reed.
— from History of the United States by Mary Ritter Beard

Then came the wondrous answer, forever solving all questions of human fealty: “Render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.”
— from Tor, a Street Boy of Jerusalem by Florence Morse Kingsley

That stands for "Referred Upon Completion" to the office of origin.
— from Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

To Mr. M’Ilvaine , Gentleman Private in a foot regiment, under cover to Mr. Coupling.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

“When I came here,” he continued, sticking his fist right up close to the Boss’s olfactory knob, “you told me that your old organization was a bunch of dummies and said you wanted initiative.
— from Dumbells of Business by Louis Custer Martin Reed

The Frenchmen ran up close to the barricade, thrust their weapons through the openings, and poured dismay and death among the defenders.
— from French Pathfinders in North America by William Henry Johnson