Obsessive prohibitions possess an extraordinary capacity for displacement; they make use of almost any form of connection to extend from one object to another and then in turn make this new object ‘impossible’, as one of my patients aptly puts it.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

And after some more general discourse on this head, which I own I could not forbear countenancing, at last, after much previous precaution and enjoined concealment, she communicated to me, as a profound secret—that my husband kept a mistress.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Thine, dear uncle Toby! was never now in 'ts right place—Mrs. Wadman had it ever to take up, or, with the gentlest pushings, protrusions, and equivocal compressions, that a hand to be removed is capable of receiving—to get it press'd a hair breadth of one side out of her way.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Certes, we can say none otherwise than that the king's 465 magnificence was a virtue, whilst that of the churchman was a miracle, inasmuch as the clergy are all exceeding niggardly, nay, far more so than women, and sworn enemies of all manner of liberality; and albeit all men naturally hunger after vengeance for affronts received, we see churchmen, for all they preach patience and especially commend the remission of offences, pursue it more eagerly than other folk.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

N.T. Ἀρχαῖος, αία, αῖον, old, ancient, of a former age, Mat. 5.21, 27, 33, et al.: from Ἀρχή , ῆς, ἡ, a beginning; in respect of time, beginning of things; commencement of the gospel dispensation; of place, first place or precedence in rank or power, sovereignty; one invested with authority, a magistrate, potentate, prince; an extremity, corner, Ac. 10.11.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Thine, dear uncle Toby ! was never now in ’ts right place——Mrs. Wadman had it ever to take up, or, with the gentlest pushings, protrusions, and equivocal compressions, that a hand to be removed is capable of receiving——to get it press’d a hair breadth of one side out of her way.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

But at this question, Queequeg, who had twice or thrice before taken part in similar ceremonies, looked no ways abashed; but taking the offered pen, copied upon the paper, in the proper place, an exact counterpart of a queer round figure which was tattooed upon his arm; so that through Captain Peleg’s obstinate mistake touching his appellative, it stood something like this:— Quohog.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

La representación debe darse por países, aunque es cierto que en algunos casos es posible, y hasta conveniente, incluir varias pequeñas repúblicas vecinas en un solo territorio; como, por ejemplo, toda la América Central, o bien, regiones limítrofes tales como Argentina, Paraguay y Uruguay.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The Report of the Philippine Commission for 1902 (page 3) had said: The insurrection as an organized attempt to subvert the authority of the United States in these islands is entirely at an end, referring farther on to “the whole Christian Philippine population” as “ enjoying civil government.”
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

chapter of my Prophecies, you would have found a positive promise that God would open the graves of the whole house of Israel, who were dead, and gather up their dry bones, and put them together, each to its own proper place, and even clothe them again with flesh, sinews, and skin, and put his spirit in them, and they should live; and then, instead of being caught up to heaven, they should be brought into the land of Canaan, which the Lord gave them, and they should inherit it.
— from The Government of God by John Taylor

* * * * * Hill is an advertiser, a patient, persistent and entirely consistent user of public print in every form.
— from The Personality of American Cities by Edward Hungerford

It is erroneous to attribute this in such an unqualified sense to Hume, * since he left at least one certain touchstone (which can only be found in a priori principles), although experience consists not only of feelings, but also of judgements.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

In the absence of precise knowledge of the composition of the primitive planetary atmospheres, equilibrium concentrations with a wide range of temperatures, pressures, and elemental compositions are being investigated by NBRF and NBS.
— from Significant Achievements in Space Bioscience 1958-1964 by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

To sell a few more bales of French calicoes and crates of French hardware, the wise men at Paris put an effectual check upon the progress of African agriculture.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 399, January 1849 by Various

For instead of retiring quietly to bed, as had been his habit for years at that hour, he locked his door, and then unlocked a desk of private papers, and emptied certain pigeon-holes of their contents, and for an hour or two sat unfolding and looking over old letters and papers; and when all this was done, he pushed them from him, and sat for a long time buried in thoughts which went down very, very deep into that dark and mossy well of which we have spoken.
— from The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe

For this sum he must provide punctual and effective cooking, paying out of his own pocket as many "marmitons" as may be needful for that end, and to satisfy his tolerably exacting and fastidious employers.
— from Shearing in the Riverina, New South Wales by Rolf Boldrewood

He was probably sensible that, besides the diminution of his authority, many inconveniencies must necessarily result from the abolishing of all discretionary power in every magistrate; and that the laws, were they ever so carefully framed and digested, could not possibly provide against every contingency; much less, where they had not as yet attained a sufficient degree of accuracy and refinement.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume

The walls, as far as the feeble light of the torch would reveal them, were of rock of the same character as the floor; only that instead of being smooth and even they were broken up into fantastic projections of every imaginable form, while here and there huge masses started boldly out from the face, forming flying buttresses with projecting pinnacles and elaborate carved-work, all executed by Nature’s own hand; while elsewhere there clustered columns, so regular and perfect in their shape that they might have been transferred with scarcely a finishing touch of the chisel to the aisles of a cathedral.
— from The Pirate Island: A Story of the South Pacific by Harry Collingwood

Meantime, the discovery of gold in the Kimberley district of Western Australia led to that province being searched by small prospecting parties, and every creek and watercourse becoming known.
— from The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Ernest Favenc