Bread was at this time so scarce as to be a subject of legal enactment, restricting the quantity allowed to each person to two ounces.
— from Lives of Celebrated Women by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

Underwood continued on until he came to the series of large exhibition rooms toward the rear.
— from The Alien by Raymond F. Jones

Which, translated, meant, "Run zigzag, young gentleman," a style of locomotion entirely repugnant to the alligator's mechanism, who can only run straight ahead of him, or leap lizard-wise.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. I, 1802 to 1821 by Alexandre Dumas

This may be illustrated by the series of legal enactments regulating the occupations in which children may be allowed to work, also the laws in regard to the hours of labor permitted in those occupations, and the minimum age below which children may not be employed.
— from Democracy and Social Ethics by Jane Addams

The book is a perfect encyclopedia of achievements by Negroes in all ranks of life, of the history of the race in the United States, of Legislative enactments relating to them, of activity in all branches, particularly education.
— from Colored girls and boys' inspiring United States history and a heart to heart talk about white folks by William Henry Harrison

The great and the small of life each receive their just due; perhaps it is by her treatment of the small that we are best assured we have read into an intimacy with Mrs. Howe.
— from Poet-Lore: A Quarterly Magazine of Letters. April, May, June, 1900 by Various