It seems that in the very early days of Ancient Rome each creditor had a right to carve his pound of flesh from off the debtor.
— from The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott, Sir

That granted, he would yield to submission infinitely more than recognized equality could have a right to expect or could hope to gain.
— from James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury

Dinner concluded, the party rose, each crossing himself, and reciting a short formula of prayer; meanwhile a youthful relation of the house stood with the washing-basin and soap turret poised on his left hand, while with the right he poured on my hands water from a slender-spouted tin ewer.
— from Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. by A. A. (Andrew Archibald) Paton