Here, for example, is the late Special Agent and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, Mr. LEWIS EINSTEIN, writing of his experiences Inside Constantinople, April-September, 1915 (MURRAY).
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 31, 1917 by Various

Hence TO BE PUT ON LINES (Harrow) = to have to show up so many lines each half-hour for a certain number of half-holidays, for being late for chapel, &c. Links , subs.
— from The Public School Word-book A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities by John Stephen Farmer

If, then, the Treaty does not operate by way of obligation on the Legislative power, let us, said Mr. L., examine, whether, as is contended, "a Treaty is paramount to a law, and can repeal it, though it, itself, cannot be acted on by the Legislative power;" this, he said, was the most [Pg 677] important question that had ever been agitated within these walls.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

The Army Zone is a piece of land under strict military law, extending, possibly, twenty miles back from the trenches.
— from Soldiers of the Legion, Trench-Etched by John Bowe

These are the enthusiasts conspicuous to-day as leaders of the so-called eugenics movement looking to the im 6 provement of mankind on stock-breeding principles—by sterilisation of the “unfit,” stricter marriage laws, etc.
— from Psychology and parenthood by H. Addington (Henry Addington) Bruce