tosta = tosca tōstæncan = tōstencan tōstandan 6 to be put off, not to occur : stand apart, differ from, be discordant , Æ. tōstencan (ǣ) to scatter, disperse, drive apart, drag along , Æ, CP: nullify, destroy : perish , SPs 829 9 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Under all conceivable circumstances we shall still have in some way or other to proportion our numbers to our supplies; and under all circumstances those who are fittest by reason of intellectual or moral or physical qualities will have the best chance of occupying good places, and leaving descendants to supply the next generation.
— from Social Rights And Duties: Addresses to Ethical Societies. Vol 1 [of 2] by Leslie Stephen

Then, when the queen, wearing her wonderful pearls, entered with the same ceremony, together with the Crown Prince and Princess of Naples, the orchestra struck up again and the revelry continued notwithstanding the presence of the sovereigns, who mixed freely with their guests and laughed and talked with them.
— from Behind the Throne by William Le Queux

" This was all the information on the subject that could be gleaned from the paymaster at that time; but as he was now easily persuaded to join Donald and Christie in remaining at the post over night, the officers still entertained hopes of extracting his secret.
— from At War with Pontiac; Or, The Totem of the Bear: A Tale of Redcoat and Redskin by Kirk Munroe

It was perhaps only natural that on some following day at the same hour she should look over that wall again, and wait till he had passed a second time.
— from Life's Little Ironies A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters by Thomas Hardy

"If you and I go to this land of beauty, Dick, we must make a point of not treading on snakes' tails."
— from In Far Bolivia: A Story of a Strange Wild Land by Gordon Stables

To have omitted a part of the extracts in order to give translations of the rest would have been still more improper, for the extracts quoted in the notes are all necessary to the illustration of the text; and besides such a mutilation would have deprived the work of a merit which has just been xi pointed out, namely, that of supplying sufficient materials for a comprehensive study of the literature of Spain and Portugal.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

So slow was the development of our craft during all the time covered by those two schools of architecture as to make it hardly proper or necessary that our subject be likewise divided into two epochs.
— from Stained Glass Tours in England by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill