These are some of the tales the old stones tell us as we pause in Berwick, which within our own memory was so specially mentioned in all forms of national prayer and thanksgiving, as being a kind of neutral ground upon the Border.
— from Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

I charge you, be not found within their lines; Remember still to keep on neutral ground, Unless a flag of truce be sent from Arnold That will secure your person and the plot.
— from The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 2 (of 3) by Philip Morin Freneau

It indeed proved necessary to climb a few more steps; and then, following Madame Theodore and Celine, Pierre found himself in a kind of narrow garret under the roof, a loft a few yards square, where one could not stand erect.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 1 by Émile Zola

This tongue was spoken in the middle of the last century over a region of country principally within Sonora, the northernmost of the seven Provinces then comprising the kingdom of New Galicia under the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
— from Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language Shea's Library of American Linguistics. Volume III. by Buckingham Smith

This was a kind of neutral ground upon which the quick and the dead could meet, the former to present, the latter to receive the funeral offerings.
— from A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Charles Chipiez

"I met Mrs. Milton and—your daughter, on the Mauretania ," he ventured, by way of keeping on neutral ground until he should learn where to take his stand.
— from Lord Loveland Discovers America by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Almost simultaneously he received a letter from Victor Emmanuel sent by the hand of Count Giulio Litta, in which the writer said that in the event of the King of Naples giving up Sicily 'I think that our most reasonable course would be to renounce all ulterior undertakings against the Neapolitan kingdom.'
— from The Liberation of Italy, 1815-1870 by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa