Moderate storms I could keep out by filling the chinks with oakum.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

Thus in all her naval efforts, long before the war, England, while guarding her own interests, was working and building up her naval strength, in conscious knowledge of the duty she might one day have to her friends who have now become her Allies.
— from The Achievement of the British Navy in the World-War by John Leyland

I stepped to the back of the room, so I could kind of see him from the same distance which I had seen him before.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

The mean and inconsiderable often stumble on Truth when they seek not after her, but she is commonly kept out of the way, and industriously conceal’d from the Great and mighty; either out of Design or Envy, for whoever wou’d make a Property of another must by all means conceal the Truth from him; and they who Envy their Neighbours Preeminence in other things, are willing themselves to excel in exactness of Judgment, which they think and very truly, to be the greatest 117 Excellency.
— from A serious proposal to the Ladies, for the advancement of their true and greatest interest (In Two Parts) by Mary Astell

'The surprising Irish Colossus, King of the Giants, measuring eight feet ten inches; noble Order of St. Patrick, &c.' —The figure of the famous Irish Giant is drawn with skill and originality by Rowlandson.
— from Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 1 by Joseph Grego

Obj. 3: Further, all things knowable scientifically [*Science is certain knowledge of a demonstrated conclusion through its demonstration] would seem to come under one head: so that if some of them are proposed to man as objects of faith, in like manner the others should also be believed.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

She said she thought we owed it to Father, after he'd been so good and kind as to let me stay here almost three whole months of his six, so I could keep on with my school.
— from Mary Marie by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Gosh, I thought for [117] a minute I’d have to stay there until they’d finished the bridge so I could keep on across it!”
— from Left Half Harmon by Ralph Henry Barbour

By decision of the Federal Council, directions may be issued, showing what requirements shall be sufficient in certain kinds of establishments for the maintenance of the principles laid down in §§ 120 a to 120 c .
— from The Theory and Policy of Labour Protection by A. (Albert) Schäffle