If a Pyrate enters a Port of this Kingdom, and robs a Ship at Anchor there, it is not Pyracy, because not done , super altum Mare; but is Robbery at common Law, because infra Corpus Comitatus.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Privileges allowed vary with the severity of the original sentence and may be increased, reduced, or done away with altogether, depending upon the inmate's attitude and behavior.
— from Area Handbook for Romania by Eugene K. Keefe

Miss Boscawen smiled good-humouredly upon Christobelle, as upon a child whose opinions availed nothing, though the motive was amiable which produced them; but she addressed Mrs. Boscawen in reply.
— from The Manoeuvring Mother (vol. 2 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

The stopping of the sun and moon by Isis recalls the myth of the stopping of the sun and moon by Joshua.
— from The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidences of His Existence by John E. (John Eleazer) Remsburg

Sally listened, superior, and merely bowed in reply.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

Everything was swimming around me, but I realized that someone—Chunda Lal probably—had been hiding in the very passage which I had entered!
— from The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer

He has said what there is to be said for the other side, and my book, I respectfully submit, is uninjured.
— from Are We Ruined by the Germans? by Harold Cox