Mr. Peregrine Palmer's generosity had in part rested on the idea of securing the estate against reverse of fortune, sufficiently possible though not expected; while with the improvements almost in hand, the shooting would make him a large return.
— from What's Mine's Mine — Complete by George MacDonald

That is strange enough, but that is quite a different affair; his personal resentment of the intrusion of such a book upon him had nothing to do with the difficulty he found in writing it.
— from The Craft of Fiction by Percy Lubbock

The Pope, regardless of the intercession of several cardinals, interdicted their public penance, which he had not authorised; and, on pain of excommunication, prohibited throughout Christendom the continuance of these pilgrimages.
— from The Black Death, and The Dancing Mania by J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl) Hecker

to effect any permanent reconstruction of the institutions of society, without a previous reorganization of opinion and of life.
— from A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life by Auguste Comte