In an oligarchy they should either call up some of the common people to the council, or else establish a court, as is done in some other states, whom they call pre-advisers or guardians of the laws, whose business should be to propose first what they should afterwards enact.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

11.—PERSONIFICACIÓN DE LAS AVES (to the vocabulary section) Ciertos animales, y en especial las aves, por su aspecto, por sus instintos o por su manera de vivir, parecen imitar las cualidades de la persona o ejecutar aquellas cosas de que sólo es capaz un ser racional.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Then Sinton's eyes came up straightly.
— from A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

Opposite the top of the stairway on the landing of this flat, is the door leading to the Secretary's room, which is fitted with glass, in order that the Secretary may see everybody coming up stairs into the reading room or elsewhere.
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

" I confess I have sucked in so much of the sad story of Queene Elizabeth from my cradle, that I was ready to weep for her sometimes; but the play is the most ridiculous that sure ever came upon stage, and, indeed, is merely a show, only shows the true garbe of the Queene in those days, just as we see Queene Mary and Queene Elizabeth painted: but the play is merely a puppet play, acted by living puppets.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys

We pass through some empty courts, under several peilaus, erected in honour of great scholars, once gay with rainbow paint, but now, of course, dusty and decaying.
— from Newfoundland to Cochin China By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent

Thus, under date 771, 482 a priest gives to the monks all his property in villa Ailingas and another place, except two servi and five yokes of land; and in another place he gives ' servum unum cum hoba sua et filiis suis et cum uxore sua .'
— from The English Village Community Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition) by Frederic Seebohm

Sudden enlightenment came upon Sally.
— from The Adventures of Sally by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse