In recent elections McKinley and Cleveland have each been elected twice to the Presidency, and no one can say whether the next presidential majority will be Republican or Democrat.
— from The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg

He cradled the eggplant parmigiano hero lovingly in his hands and closed his eyes before each bite, as if bracing for the next dose of ecstasy.
— from Take Me for a Ride: Coming of Age in a Destructive Cult by Mark E. Laxer

When the two strongest of the Newfoundland seal fleet, purchased by the American Government, and equipped at the cost of $250,000, were pushed north the next spring, at a date earlier than the Arctic Circle had ever been entered before, only six of the party remained alive to tell the tale of a fight against death absolutely unique in the records of marine adventure in any part of the known world.”
— from Peeps at Many Lands: Newfoundland by Ford Fairford

A controversy had existed between England and Scotland for centuries before Edward was born.
— from The Life and Reign of Edward I. by Robert Benton Seeley

[583] See that invaluable little book, "The Education of a Christian Home," edited by Ella S. Armitage.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Proverbs by Robert F. (Robert Forman) Horton

She lay back on her pillows and closed her eyes, but even then the vision of Rita Cheyne intruded—a vision of Jeff and Rita Cheyne riding together over the mountain trails.
— from The Forbidden Way by George Gibbs

This distinction may be to a certain degree well founded, inasmuch as the power of opposing a bold and successful resistance to temporary aberrations of the public mind, necessarily implies an established influence, and can hardly ever be exercised even by the firmest politician during his years of commencement: he is at that time necessarily the adjunct of some party or tendency which he finds already in operation, and has to stand forward actively and assiduously before he can create for himself a separate personal influence.
— from History of Greece, Volume 06 (of 12) by George Grote

Had Grammont obeyed his orders it is difficult to see how a man of the Allied Army could have escaped; but even allowing for Grammont's ill-timed impatience it is strange that Noailles should have allowed the day to go as it went.
— from A History of the British Army, Vol. 2 First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War by Fortescue, J. W. (John William), Sir