We had no 128 sooner crossed the threshold of our little box than the creaky old cleat door was gently closed upon us and buttoned by our hostess upon the outside, as the only means of keeping it shut; and we were left free to grope about among these mysteries as best we might.
— from Historic Waterways—Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Reuben Gold Thwaites

That was the first thing Dorothy realized; the next that her foot was aching horribly, but not in that sickening way it had before; and lastly that, [Pg 256] as the only means of keeping it dry, Jim had thrust their loaf back into the bundle and was sitting upon that!
— from Dorothy by Evelyn Raymond

I relate these things on my own knowledge, in a great degree, as I was on the ground soon after he left it.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 2 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

She is neither pretty nor fascinating; but I have every reason to believe her very good, very amiable; and she is the only woman, except those of my own kindred, in whom I have any right to be interested."
— from Charlotte's Inheritance by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The only mention of Korkyra is in a verse which runs thus:— καὶ λιπαρὴ Κέρκυρα, φίλον πέδον Ἀλκινόοιο.
— from Sketches from the Subject and Neighbour Lands of Venice by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman

The withdrawal of a commodity from circulation in the form of gold is therefore the only means of keeping it constantly within the sphere of circulation.
— from A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx

Had the sovereignty been in the assembly of the States-General, they might have transferred it of their own motion or kept it for themselves.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

It has ever since been occupied by an English sergeant and family, from the Cape of Good Hope, by order of the British government, who took possession of it, as was said, with the ostensible motive of keeping it as an outpost to St. Helena, at the time of Bonaparte’s imprisonment there.
— from Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat In the U. S. Sloop-of-war Peacock, David Geisinger, Commander, During the Years 1832-3-4 by Edmund Roberts