In the ordinary course of events no other future would have been open to him.
— from Sant' Ilario by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

The Deacon positively suffered as he looked at that odd corner of earth, not any bigger than his barn floor, and saw what his girls had done with no tools but a spade and a hoe and no help but their own hands.
— from The Story of Waitstill Baxter by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The oldest copy of Evelina now in the Bodleian is of an edition published after Johnson's death.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell

Provided always, that one copy of each newspaper published in this Province may be sent free from postage to any Publisher of another Newspaper in this Province, that all printed documents addressed to the Publisher of any Newspaper in this Province shall be delivered to him free, and that all Newspapers published in this Province and addressed to Subscribers in the United States, shall pass free to the Provincial line, under such regulations as the Governor in Council shall make to prevent the abuse of the privileges hereby granted: And, subject to the foregoing provisions of this section and to the other express provisions of this Act, the Governor in Council shall have full power and authority ... for establishing the rates of postage on Newspapers and Printed Pamphlets, Magazines and Books, and for declaring what shall be deemed such, or directing that in any case or class of cases they be free of postage, either in the first instance or the case of their being re-mailed, ... for the preparing and distributing of Provincial stamps for pre-payment, for limiting the weight and dimensions of letters or packets to be sent by Post ...
— from Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Clifton A. (Clifton Armstrong) Howes

I think that there is no question that it will be better for us to take our chances of escape now.
— from One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

I was severed first from the Church, and then from Christ, and I wandered at length far away into the regions of doubt and unbelief, and came near to the outermost confines of eternal night.
— from Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story by Joseph Barker

Poor Herbert failed at school and college, the obvious consequence of early neglect.
— from A Son of Mars, volume 1 by Arthur Griffiths

Miserliness is the denying oneself and others the ordinary comforts or even necessaries of life, for the mere sake of hoarding money.
— from English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

Long before the nobles of Flanders, France and England were associated in attempts to free the holy places from the pollution of infidel possession, the dwellers on the opposite coasts of England, Normandy and the Netherlands had been bound together by many dynastic and trade bonds.
— from Dutch and Flemish Furniture by Esther Singleton

But it was neither the one current of emotion nor the other that caused that dagger-like pain that stabbed her pride to the quick.
— from What Necessity Knows by L. (Lily) Dougall