If all went well with him and his forged passport passed muster, he would be over the frontier in under three days.
— from The Tunnellers of Holzminden (with a side-issue) by H. G. (Hugh George) Durnford

For in these latter days of April, 1898, a first-class Republic had, from purely philanthropic motives, announced its intention of licking a third-rate Monarchy into the way it should go.
— from His Lordship's Leopard: A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts by David Dwight Wells

Possibly the fact that this mine alone had not been pressed upon him for purchase, predisposed Mr. Compton to regard it with favor.
— from Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

The boy's strongest point was his ability to fit in with some one else's plans, and of all his friends Philip proved most fertile in his suggestions.
— from The Bachelors: A Novel by William Dana Orcutt

To quote his own words “necessity has frequently put private men on noble takings.”
— from A Cruising Voyage Around the World by Woodes Rogers

On calling to look at their arms three days after I was told that John Hodges, one of the three, had been inoculated with the smallpox when a year old, and that he had a full burthen, of which his face produced plentiful marks, a circumstance I was not before made acquainted with.
— from The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various

Lord Monmouth, though he had been absent from England since 1832, had obtained from his vigilant correspondent a current knowledge of all that had occurred in the interval: all the hopes, fears, plans, prospects, manoeuvres, and machinations; their rise and fall; how some had bloomed, others were blighted; not a shade of reaction that was not represented to him; not the possibility of an adhesion that was not duly reported; he could calculate at Naples at any time, within ten, the result of a dissolution.
— from Coningsby; Or, The New Generation by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

“I say, good people,” cried the officer, in French, “where does the burgomaster live here?” “Fred Power, ‘pon my life!”
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever