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something in my past to offset my
I don't mean that I was over-proud—in a way I don't suppose there was anything to boast of in the Carletons—but as I stood before these men in the position of a minor employee I suppose that unconsciously I looked for something in my past to offset my present humiliating situation.
— from One Way Out: A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America by William Carleton

some inventive mind possibly that of Mistress
But the wind, which blew "a stiffe gale," had no respect of persons, and all were groaning together till the afternoon of the next day, when a device occurred to some inventive mind, possibly that of Mistress Bradstreet herself, which was immediately carried out.
— from Anne Bradstreet and Her Time by Helen Campbell

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