There was a fair amount of space for this number, and as yet we suffered no inconvenience from our crowding, though most persons would fancy that thirteen acres of ground was a rather limited area for five thousand men to live, move and have their being a upon.
— from Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy
At last my poor master bolted, sir." "Bolted!" "Ran away." "Where to?" "I don't know; but he bolted from here, and from Captain Robinson." "But Mr. Murray was surely not in fear of Captain Robinson?" "Indeed, he was.
— from Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series by Bracebridge Hemyng
Plainly, if we analyze our own experience, we shall find that it is simply what its scholastic name implies, freedom of choice, or liber arbitrio .
— from Nineteenth Century Questions by James Freeman Clarke
Wid. Come, Mr. Petulant, let me give you some new instructions for our cause in the Exchequer.
— from William Wycherley [Four Plays] by William Wycherley
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