69 Owing to the low ebb of public sentiment, such a method of procedure, I find, is neither by custom accounted morally wrong nor forbidden either by statute or by civil law; nevertheless it is forbidden by the moral law.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fear and anguish smote her therewith, for she saw that in that dull land, every piece whereof was like every other piece, she must have gone about in a ring, and come back again to where she first turned to make for the northern shore.
— from The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris

The silence was then unbroken till they came to the lower end of Park Street, the junction of roads which lead to Hampstead, to Highgate, and to Holloway.
— from New Grub Street by George Gissing

Lalor, Encyclopaedia of Political Science, (Art., “Press”), vol. iii, 321.
— from The postal power of Congress: A study in constitutional expansion by Lindsay Rogers

Therefore Oxford, like every other prisoner shielded by the irresponsibility of madness, was delivered up to be dealt with according to her Majesty's pleasure, which signified his imprisonment so long as the Crown should see fit.
— from Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 by Sarah Tytler

Somehow he had been in nearly every house we had visited; and his laborious expressions of pleased surprise at meeting us there had now given way to specious and transparent explanations of his own presence.
— from The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton by Ian Hay

When her papa came home, Bella ran up to him with her letter, exclaiming: "Oh papa, see!
— from The Little Nightcap Letters by Aunt Fanny

When he gave a music lesson, he spent half the time in talking of Pons, interrupting himself to wonder whether his friend felt better to-day, and the little school-girls listening heard lengthy explanations of Pons' symptoms.
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac