But the laws of motion and the law of gravitation, which account for the fact that most bodies fall, also account for the fact that balloons and aeroplanes can rise; thus the laws of motion and the law of gravitation are not subject to these exceptions.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

They lived on Grove and Nineteenth streets and I on Thirteenth street between Webster and Harrison streets.
— from Sixty Years of California Song by Margaret Blake Alverson

[53] One Sunday evening a feeble little man clad in rags came to the village; he knocked at several houses, praying the inmates to give him, for the love of God, a night's shelter.
— from Ulster Folklore by Andrews, Elizabeth, F.R.A.I.

The Reformation Fathers constantly reproach their Roman antagonists with this anomaly and with having debased the state of marriage which is right for all according to the law of God and nature: see the Parker Society collection of the Works of Fathers and Early Writers of the Reformed English Church , General Index, at "Marriage," 515-17.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

But Matilda had never forgiven the slight she had received, as a girl, from the proud Lord of Gloucester; and no sooner had she become queen of England than she determined to take an unworthy revenge, which ever after tarnished her fame.
— from The Girls' Book of Famous Queens by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

Thirty-six samples were subjected to various levels of glycerol and no significant difference in freezability was found between 6 and 8 percent.
— from Preservation of Bull Semen at Sub-Zero Temperatures by W. J. Miller

The laws of God and nature seemed to be in conflict, for our livers got out of order and some one of us always had a headache in the afternoon.
— from The Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Time of Silas Wright by Irving Bacheller

He had given one or two loud, open growls, and now sat with his newspaper, showing his teeth as far as the spirit of the thing went.
— from Lotta Schmidt, and Other Stories by Anthony Trollope