The Convention probably foresaw, what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate, that the danger which most threatens our political welfare is that the State governments will finally sap the foundations of the Union; and might therefore think it necessary, in so cardinal a point, to leave nothing to construction.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The next is Salisburie court, a place so called for that it belonged to the Bishops of Salisburie, and was their inn, or London house, at such time as they were summoned to come to the parliament, or came for other business; it hath of late time been the dwelling, first of Sir Richard Sackvile, and now of Sir Thomas Sackvile his son, Baron of Buckhurst, Lord Treasurer, who hath lately enlarged it with stately buildings.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Certainly not; I should choose another place,—I answered.—But, mind you, at this table I think it is very different.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nothing is so common at Paris among certain people."
— from The Ancient Regime by Hippolyte Taine

Man has a moral nature; is so constituted, and placed in such relations that he feels certain things to be right for him, and others wrong; he says: I ought to do this, and that I ought not.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, April 1885 by Chautauqua Institution

“Yes, Willy, dear, and now I shall come and pay you a call.”
— from Married by August Strindberg

A type produced nowhere in such completeness and perfection as at Oxford or Cambridge, he represented a certain definite social class, a class more hated by the working man than perhaps any other—the polite parasite!
— from The Socialist by Guy Thorne

'Random' movements are mentioned so as to include quasi -accidental reflexes from inner causes, or movements possibly arising from such overflow of nutrition in special centres as Prof. Bain postulates in his explanation of those 'spontaneous discharges' by which he sets such great store in his derivation of the voluntary life.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James

And when the power to release did not rest with the Inspectors, the Agent was at once despatched to procure the release of the committed person; and that failing, care has been used to place the novices in separate cells, and provide them with advice, books, and some little work.
— from The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (New Series, No. 3, January 1864) by Pennsylvania Prison Society

In his wildest dreams he had not imagined so choice a position, and he resolved to give full play to an idea which suddenly occurred to him.
— from Cupboard Love The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 5. by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs