Marjorie and her young cousins dragged him off, after his green shade was put on, to the creek, and made him rig up rods and lines for them in the shape of light-trimmed willow boughs, to which pieces of thread
— from Two Knapsacks: A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by John Campbell

But there is another, not less legitimate, the need of not being the dupe of chimerical principles, of barren abstractions, of combinations more or less ingenious, but artificial, {40} the need of resting upon reality and life, the need of experience.
— from Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

She dropped her artificial gown in an instant and rushed up Railway Avenue like a militant suffragette.
— from Skookum Chuck Fables: Bits of History, Through the Microscope by R. D. (Robert Dalziel) Cumming

Courts of justice having no law-giving power could not recognise unwritten rules as law if these rules were not law before that recognition, and States recognise unwritten rules as law only because courts of justice do so.
— from International Law. A Treatise. Volume 1 (of 2) Peace. Second Edition by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim

Joe, the new foreman, has full charge of everything and he's not only robbing us right and left, but he 's—he 's bothering me !
— from The Coming of Cassidy—And the Others by Clarence Edward Mulford

Those convicted for robbery usually received a life sentence; they were considered lucky if they got off with five years.
— from History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Gustavus Myers

There we can rest upon roses and lavender, and throw salt in his eyes if he comes near."
— from Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. Second Series by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen