The ruler who had dared to disregard her order to purify his land of its contaminators had been brought low.
— from Mediæval Heresy & the Inquisition by Arthur Stanley Turberville

Shortly afterwards Mr. Carey published his "Letters on International Copyright," in which he took the ground that the facts and ideas in a book are the common property of society, and that property in copyright is indefensible.
— from International Copyright Considered in some of its Relations to Ethics and Political Economy by George Haven Putnam

To gratify, at the same time, the taste for antiquity, which he somehow supposed that his new guest possessed, he launched out in commendation of the great artists of former days, particularly one whom he had known in his youth, “Maitre de Cuisine to the Marechal Strozzi—tres bon gentilhomme pourtant;” who had maintained his master's table with twelve covers every day during the long and severe blockade of le petit Leyth, although he had nothing better to place on it than the quarter of a carrion-horse now and then, and the grass and weeds that grew on the ramparts.
— from The Fortunes of Nigel by Walter Scott