To all, which we should not expect with bought, was apparently suggested by the antithetical to him in the preceding line; but if all the editions did not read bought, we might suspect that Scott wrote brought.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

For example, if among a large number of infants receiving pasteurized milk from a common source, some are given the milk diluted by one-half, others given it diluted by one-third, and still others whole milk, the last group will show the least tendency to scurvy, which we should not expect were the poison contained in the food.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

The passage from the "Autobiography" runs as follows:—"While we repudiated with the greatest energy that tyranny of society over the individual which most socialistic systems are supposed to involve, we yet looked forward to a time when society will no longer be divided into the idle and the industrious; when the rule that they who do not work shall not eat will be applied, not to paupers only, but impartially to all; when the division of the produce of labour, instead of depending, as in so great a degree it now does, on the accident of birth, will be made by concert on an acknowledged principle of justice; and when it
— from Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

She has something nearly every week in the Croppy .
— from Hyacinth by George A. Birmingham

People will have to choose sides now, either with the King or with his foes.
— from My Sword's My Fortune: A Story of Old France by Herbert Hayens

Justification, let the reader be reminded, is so spacing the contents of a line that it shall neatly end with a word or syllable.
— from Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery by George Iles

Still, it ain't none so strange neither; even Wolfville's acquaintance with Dead Shot's only what you-all might call casyooal, him not personally lastin' more'n three months.
— from Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories by Alfred Henry Lewis

I shall now endeavour, with precision, to relate them all, combining, of course, in the narrative, whatever I have learned from various sources, tending, however imperfectly, to illuminate the darkness which involves its progress and termination.
— from In a Glass Darkly, v. 1/3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

But the repressed excitement in this woman's manner was not that of a woman who is forcing herself to keep her courage up; not that of a woman who would like to scream; but a steadier nervous energy which seemed to burn in her like a fire, to escape from her finger tips, and almost to crackle in her hair; an intensity that was vibrant.
— from Carter, and Other People by Don Marquis

Dr. Lyon gives the names of seven New Englanders whose inventories date from 1671 to 1693, and who owned forks.
— from Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle