The solitary passages in the Gospel of St. John, which are all that Dr. Ginsburg can quote in support of this contention, may have referred to an alms-bag or a fund for certain expenses, not to a common pool of all monetary wealth.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

After this Peter, was chained each night to a chair.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

Well—we have said enough about calcareous earths; now to another class, the argillaceous .
— from Evenings at Home; Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened by John Aikin

"Total number of votes cast, eight; necessary to a choice, five.
— from Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

Mr. Hanbury, who was smoking and correcting exercises, nodded to a chair, and after a few minutes' silence, broken by sundry grunts and the thud of a merciless blue pencil, put down his work and addressed Pip.
— from Pip : A Romance of Youth by Ian Hay

With funds—ample extravagant supplies of ready cash, he felt he could even negotiate the awkward circumstance that he himself was deeply in debt to Mukhum Dass at the time of the murder.
— from Guns of the Gods: A Story of Yasmini's Youth by Talbot Mundy

The renderings of Tolstoi's biblical quotations are taken from the "Corrected English New Testament," a conservative version which is now spoken of as the best English New Testament extant.
— from Anarchism by Paul Eltzbacher