They hadn’t gone much farther before the blade of one of the oars got fast in the water and wouldn’t come out again (so Alice explained it afterwards), and the consequence was that the handle of it caught her under the chin, and, in spite of a series of little shrieks of ‘Oh, oh, oh!’ from poor Alice, it swept her straight off the seat, and down among the heap of rushes.
— from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

But in a monarchy the other members of the State are often too much deprived of public counsel and jurisdiction; and under the rule of an aristocracy the multitude can hardly possess its due share of liberty, since it is allowed no share in the public deliberation, and no power.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Have we valuable territories and important posts in the possession of a foreign power which, by express stipulations, ought long since to have been surrendered?
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Sir, our lodgings, standing bleak upon the sea, Shook as the earth did quake; The very principals did seem to rend, And all to topple: pure surprise and fear Made me to quit the house.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And no doubt the terms (such as ‘moral obligation’), which we commonly use in speaking of these [505] rules, are naturally suggestive of Legal Sanctions and so of a Sovereign by whom these are announced and enforced.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

, i.e. they pierced the narrow strip of land separating the round naval port (Cothon) from the sea.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Her conscience assured her that the reckoning would come, that sooner or later she would face the bar of justice and receive the verdict of guilty; but while one day of grace remained, she would still "in the fire of spring, her winter garments of repentance fling."
— from Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

That the object is to give to French engineers and French shareholders a strip of land separating Egypt from Syria, and increasing the French interest in Egypt.'
— from Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 by Nassau William Senior

She was pretty, too, and w'en her husban' used to stay out late she'd cry an' talk, but I never heard what she said; but I knew she was good,
— from Deficient Saints: A Tale of Maine by Marshall Saunders

"It supposes two systems of local signs, whose relations—taking the eye as an example—we may think as ... the measuring of the manifold local-sign system of the retina by the simple local-sign system of the movements.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James

When Jane awoke the next morning she stared for a moment at the brownish spot in the ceiling just over her bed, as she had done every morning during a series of London seasons.
— from Truthful Jane by Florence Morse Kingsley