If you mean, have I robbed or killed, or forged—or wronged a woman as men wrong women? No.
— from The Right of Way — Complete by Gilbert Parker

Hiranyâksha is ruler or king of the fifth region of Pâtâla, a Snake-god.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

And even when the operations of individual men have a part to play in his deductions, as when he is reasoning of kings, or other single rulers, still, as he is providing for indefinite duration, involving an indefinite succession of such individuals, he must in general both reason and act as if what is true of most persons were true of all.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

His statements, under the first of those heads, form by far the most valuable portion of the work, affording, as it does, information not elsewhere to be found respecting the social condition, the politics, and the state of religion in a highly interesting region, our knowledge of which has hitherto been of the slightest description.
— from Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. by A. A. (Andrew Archibald) Paton

Hence it requires one kind of treatment at one stage, another at another, both being perfectly right and true in relation to their proper period.
— from For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music by Aubertine Woodward Moore