This Act shall not extend to Persons convicted or attainted in Scotland.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

The conversation in no way turned upon ghosts, so there were not even those primary conditions of receptive expectations which so often precede the presentation of psychical phenomena.
— from The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

In Holland, where the market rate of interest does not exceed three per cent., two and a-half per cent.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

It struck him as a pitiable irregularity in other women if they did not roll up their table-napkins with the same tightness and emphasis as Mrs. Glegg did, if their pastry had a less leathery consistence, and their damson cheese a less venerable hardness than hers; nay, even the peculiar combination of grocery and druglike odors in Mrs. Glegg's private cupboard impressed him as the only right thing in the way of cupboard smells.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Yes, those are indeed parts of the task of America; but they not only do not exhaust the progressive conception, but rather arise, teeming with it, as the mediums of deeper, higher progress.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Elford-on-Trent, 267 n. Elfred the priest, carries Bede's bones to Durham, xl .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Not even the Prisoners' Chorus, nor Florian's Song, had the power to dispel the gloom of his loneliness.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

In the ancient world, though there might be, and often was, great individual or local independence, there could be nothing like a regulated popular government beyond the bounds of a single city-community; because there did not exist the physical conditions for the formation and propagation of a public opinion, except among those who could be brought together to discuss public matters in the same agora.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

[55] But these children of nature were incorporated in the demesnes of the feudal chiefs, who when they found our system did not extend to perpetual control, returned to their old habits of oppression: this provoked retaliation, which to subdue requires more power than the Rana yet possesses, and, in the anomalous state of our alliances, will always be an embarrassing task to whosoever may exercise political control.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

They form part of the present ration of the United States Army, in which they can be given “in lieu of an equal quantity of potatoes not exceeding twenty per cent.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

In addition to this the news was very serious; the notary Grandguillot was beyond a doubt insolvent, so that not even the personal creditors would receive anything.
— from Doctor Pascal by Émile Zola

'The statement of a Juryman is not evidence,' the Prosecuting Counsel interposed.
— from The Orange Girl by Walter Besant

[Pg 351] XIII COTTON STAPLE Natural Elements to Produce Cotton Cotton grows profusely in all this part of Africa, and is not only produced naturally, but extensively cultivated throughout the Yoruba country.
— from Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party by Martin Robison Delany

“Costs of collection where such exist, not exceeding ten per cent, are not included for the purpose of these paragraphs in the word ‘income.’
— from Irish History and the Irish Question by Goldwin Smith

For Nebuchadnezzar was coming that way with the chariots and horses of Babylon and a great crowd of marauders; and the king had not even the poor choice whether he would be the vassal of the Chaldean or of the Egyptian.
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1 by Charles Dudley Warner

I have not even that poor consolation.
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

If the environment or the physical conditions underwent a variation, a corresponding variation in the forms that could by possibility exist must ensue, and, from a thorough study of those not eliminated, the physical conditions might be ascertained; and conversely, from a thorough knowledge of the physical conditions, the forms that could escape elimination might be designated.
— from History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume II (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

Since the drouth would not end the people could only drift away, hoping to find better conditions elsewhere.
— from Indians of the Mesa Verde by Don Watson

Not even that prospect can tempt me!
— from Mr Punch's Pocket Ibsen - A Collection of Some of the Master's Best Known Dramas by F. Anstey