Being aware that, unfortunately, her own temperament is inflammable, she dreads the least spark, and keeps out of reach so far as she can.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I was changed; the tight-drawn cord that sounded so harshly was loosened, the moment that Idris participated in my knowledge of our real situation.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

One kind only of regularly stratified rock occurs in the 776 miles
— from The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. XLIX April-October 1850 by Various

I may have had a longer head than some of my compeers; at any rate, I was cooler-headed than the majority of them, and I kept out of rotten schemes."
— from Wyllard's Weird: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

‘Little they will reck of kindness out of rule,’ sighed the Prioress.
— from The Herd Boy and His Hermit by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

This we kept on our right, skirting its bank until we came to Nissa (Nisch).
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

In the wide, dry moat at the base of the castle-wall are clustered whole colonies of small houses, some of brick, but the larger portion built of old stones which once made part of the Norman keep, or of Roman structures that existed before the Conqueror’s castle was ever dreamed about.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

How little did they know of our real situation!
— from Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred in and near Leipzig Immediately Before, During, and Subsequent to, the Sanguinary Series of Engagements Between the Allied Armies of the French, from the 14th to the 19th October, 1813 by Frederic Shoberl

We kick off our red slippers below, and mount the steps to the platform.
— from The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Bayard Taylor

But the wolves were careful to keep out of rifle shot.
— from The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler