“They tell me it is by no means an uncommon case, Kate; somebody over at somebody's place was snowed in for four weeks, and now it appears that even the Summit House is not always accessible.
— from Snow-Bound at Eagle's by Bret Harte

[957] Thus Shakespeare even puts into the mouth of the murderer and usurper Claudius, King of Denmark, the following sentence: “Let him go, Gertrude: do not fear our person: There’s such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will.”
— from Folk-lore of Shakespeare by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer