I grew fond of her company, and, being at that time under no religious restraint, and presuming upon my importance to her, I attempted familiarities (another erratum) which she repuls'd with a proper resentment, and acquainted him with my behaviour.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Sailing as these vessels were under no recognised register, and without the protection of the British ensign, which they were prohibited from hoisting, they were liable to seizure at any time by any enterprising pirate.
— from The Treaty of Waitangi; or, how New Zealand became a British Colony by Thomas Lindsay Buick

In wilderness there is mystery yet, unsimplified, not reduced, resplendent and immense.
— from Many-Storied Mountains: The Life of Glacier National Park by Greg Beaumont

The thieves and rogues of the place, being under no restraint, robbed all the houses, on this afternoon, whose inmates had taken refuge at the mission-house.
— from Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by Henriette McDougall

He took up novel reading, rather a new taste, and amused himself with contemporaneous society in England as depicted by Norris.
— from James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol 2/2 by Horace Elisha Scudder

Judge Smith, Brigham City : Received the following last night: "I have arranged with the Attorney-General to pay the value of timber taken for the U. N. R. R., and the fines and sentences will be remitted by the President of the U. S. Jay Gould.
— from Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey) Snow