"He's free of the line!" shouted Hiram, inwardly much relieved to think they had got rid of what to him was an alarming situation.
— from The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol by John Henry Goldfrap

And the writer, after copying the letter in Aramaic, goes right on with the history in Aramaic; from the twelfth verse of the fourth chapter to the eighteenth verse of the sixth chapter the language is all Aramaic; then the historian drops back into Hebrew again, and goes on to the twelfth verse of the seventh chapter, when he returns to Aramaic to record the letter of Artaxerxes, which extends to the twenty-seventh verse.
— from Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Washington Gladden

Hesitation in the question of the well I could understand, for water is scarce on a low island; that he should refuse to interfere upon a point of cookery was more than I had dreamed of; and I gathered (rightly or wrongly) that he was scrupulous of touching in the least degree the private life and habits of his slaves.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Is it not inevitable that, as soon as the lord is pushed by economic forces into making his estate yield the maximum money return irrespective of a numerous tenantry or of the ancient methods of tillage, he should try in any way he can to get rid of what to him are troublesome excrescences, that he should begin questioning titles, screwing up rents, turning copyhold to leasehold?
— from The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney

No; King Chulalonkorn and his ministers, many of whom are highly accomplished men, are sincerely anxious for the speedy development of the great resources over which they have command.
— from Siam : The Land of the White Elephant as It Was and Is by George B. (George Blagden) Bacon

The rich, the cunning, the well-informed manage to get rid of what they happen to hold.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 09 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Political by Robert Green Ingersoll

I say more: we hold the balance of Europe: we will make that balance incline as we wish; and, if such is the order of fate, I think it by no means impossible that we may in a few years attain those grand results of which the heated and enthusiastic imagination catches a glimpse, and which the extremely cool, persistent, and calculating man will alone attain."
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

One day, when the great raft on which the horses were floated to the shore bumped up against the little pier, a nervous brown mare broke loose and jumped overboard.
— from The Coil of Carne by John Oxenham

Numbers of men lived, and grew rich, on what they had contrived to steal from cargoes that were waiting to be discharged at the wharves about London Bridge.
— from Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea. Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial by Various

The great Rubini once wrote to his friend, the tenor Duprez, "You lost your voice because you always sang with your capital.
— from Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists by James Francis Cooke