And as, though all doe know, that quantities Are made of lines, and lines from Points arise, None can these lines or quantities unjoynt, And say this is a line, or this a point, 135 So though the Elements and Humors were In her, one could not say, this governes there.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Or, if inequalities should still exist, they would neither be so great in their degree, so uniform in their operation, nor so odious in their appearance, as those which would necessarily spring from quotas, upon any scale that can possibly be devised.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

He used to straddle quietly up and separate them with his beak as a starling would.
— from Courage, True Hearts: Sailing in Search of Fortune by Gordon Stables

“Thank Captain Paisley,” said the Governor (his tone was quite usual), “and say that official business connected with the end of the session makes it imperative for me to be at the State-House.
— from Red Men and White by Owen Wister

The Prince decided quickly, uttered a shout to rally his men, who had managed to join him by dint of much pains; then he spurred his horse down the opposite slope of the high hill, and cried: "Follow me!"
— from The Usurper: An Episode in Japanese History by Judith Gautier

During the breeding season and early spring, however, these birds exhibit an activity for which we are quite unprepared, and soar to prodigious heights, displaying their skill in a variety of aërial
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 2 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

He was quite unfriendly, and said that no more fish should be sent, and if an attempt should be made to take them away by force, he would guard them.
— from Pictures of German Life in the XVth, XVIth, and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag

For what was it in the old martyrs which made men look up to them, as persons infinitely better than themselves, with quite unmeasurable admiration; so that they worshipped them after their deaths, as if they had been gods rather than men?
— from Discipline and Other Sermons by Charles Kingsley

Hardly able to credit their good fortune the flight-sub and his companion thrust their maps into their pockets and began to wave for assistance a quite unnecessary act since the lieutenant-commander of G 21 had already concluded rightly that the airmen were his compatriots in distress.
— from Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S.: A Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

M. La Tour considers the treatment of the Baron de Semblançay quite unjust, and says that he was only found to have been guilty of corruption when he failed to supply the enormous sums of money required by Francis I and his mother, who, like the proverbial horseleach's daughters, cried ever "Give! give!"
— from In Château Land by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton

And she pointed at Ingrid, and continued: 'I can quite understand, Anna Stina, that you would like to help one who looks like that.
— from From a Swedish Homestead by Selma Lagerlöf

The commencement of our trigonometrical operations was seen by him with indifference, if not contempt; and he quitted us, apparently satisfied that, from people who could thus occupy themselves seriously, there was nothing to be apprehended.
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders