In all other respects, except in this case of “Old George,” Lord Ashbridge’s wishes were law to the local authorities, for in this tranquil East-coast district the spirit of the feudal system with a beneficent lord and contented tenants strongly survived.
— from Michael by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

All spelling has been left as found in the text, except for those changes noted below.
— from British Royal Proclamations Relating to America, 1603-1783 by Great Britain. Sovereign

During the three days' duration of their stay, the Easterners looked at facts, incomprehensible to the eyes of such as they, through the explanations, honest enough in intention, of Billy Knapp.
— from The Westerners by Stewart Edward White

Of course, like a fool, I tried to explain, whereon everybody tittered.
— from Allan and the Holy Flower by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

That brought him hotly near the heart of the mystery, but he turned his back on it, only to find himself most vividly remembering his visit to the house of the Lawries, and finding in that the explanation of Bennett’s share in the preposterous marriage.
— from Round the Corner Being the Life and Death of Francis Christopher Folyat, Bachelor of Divinity, and Father of a Large Family by Gilbert Cannan

I quickly gave up, and looked away from it to the everlasting hills, too far away to force me to mathematical calculations.
— from By-gone Tourist Days: Letters of Travel by Laura G. Case Collins

It lies on the horizon all highest up in the sea towards the 25 West, while the other islands lie away from it to the East.
— from The Authoress of the Odyssey Where and when she wrote, who she was, the use she made of the Iliad, and how the poem grew under her hands by Samuel Butler

It lies on the horizon all highest up in the sea towards the west, while the other islands lie away from it to the east."
— from The Authoress of the Odyssey Where and when she wrote, who she was, the use she made of the Iliad, and how the poem grew under her hands by Samuel Butler

Nor do the other islands lie away from it to the East.
— from The Authoress of the Odyssey Where and when she wrote, who she was, the use she made of the Iliad, and how the poem grew under her hands by Samuel Butler