"infeft" hidden in books

ill news for Elizabeth for there

This was ill news for Elizabeth, for there were hundreds of Englishmen in arms in Holland, and brave Sir Humphrey Gilbert and his band were besieging Ter Goes.
— from The Great Lord Burghley: A study in Elizabethan statecraft by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

is not for every fool to

It is not for every fool to handle snuffers at or about the candles, lest perhaps, instead of mending the light, they put the candle out.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

is not free either from the

Only cards in the highest or lowest rows are available, until a card from any other row is released, by the removal of cards either above or below it, the principle being that no card can be used that is not free either from the top or the bottom.
— from Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience New Revised Edition, including American Games by Cadogan, Adelaide, Lady

into nineteen families each family to

The whole company was divided into nineteen families, each family to build its own log hut.
— from Miles Standish, the Puritan Captain by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

is no future existence for them

According to the doctrine of St. Augustine, nations are rewarded or punished in this world, because there is no future existence for them; but the fact of rewards and punishments awarded them shows that their life is not a series of necessary sequences such as prevail in physics, and that the manifestations or phenomena of history, past, present, or future, cannot resolve themselves into the workings of absolute laws.
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

is no faith expected from the

Thus, as there is no faith expected from the children, the servants will not trust them; they will be certain of detection, and will not transgress the laws.
— from Practical Education, Volume I by Richard Lovell Edgeworth

is now forever eliminated from the

It is now forever eliminated from the fur-seal question.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1899 Volume LIV, No. 5, March 1899 by Various

is no fire escape from the

There is no fire escape from the floor above for some reason.
— from Traffic in Souls: A Novel of Crime and Its Cure by Eustace Hale Ball

is not fool enough for that

Not that I should mind it; but he is not fool enough for that.
— from The Claverings by Anthony Trollope

is not full enough for the

Too often do we meet with a manual in which there is little more than a description of the external characters which nobody is satisfied with, because it is not full enough for the mere collector, and for the general reader is too dry.
— from Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

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