This is also unconfirmed, but I suppose the only reason they would stay bought in any case is that there are no other bidders in the market.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey
They say there is some danger of being weather-bound at Nantucket; but I see that others run the same risk.
— from Familiar Letters The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 06 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau
He enumerates at great length the evidence against hallucination as a result of his excess in opium, but I suggest to observing readers that there is a more obvious line of criticism.
— from Devil-Worship in France; or, The Question of Lucifer by Arthur Edward Waite
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