There was no Spain for Margaret that autumn; although to the last she hoped that some fortunate occasion would call Frederick to Paris, whither she could easily have met with a convoy.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

And next thereunto was then a great house of stone and timber, belonging to the abbot of St. Augustine without the walls of Canterburie, which was an ancient piece of work, and seemeth to be one of the first built houses on that side the river over-against the city; it was called the abbot’s inn of St. Augustine in Southwark, and was sometime holden of the Earls of Warren and Surrey, as appeareth by a deed made 1281, which I have read, and may be Englished thus:— “To all whom this present writing shall come,
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

The nucleus of the Taft policy was stated by Governor Taft to the Senate Committee in 1902, as follows 13 :
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

The price was small, but it was the first article he had written, his very first attempt to express his thought on the printed page.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

These persons were successively called up, condemned, delivered over to the sheriffs of London, in April 15, 1557, were conducted to Smithfield, there to exchange a temporal life for a life eternal with him for whose sake and truth they perished.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

The two positions were so important to the enemy, AS HE SAW HIS INTEREST, that it was natural to suppose that reinforcements would come from every quarter from which they could be got.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

But his tenure of the post was short enough, and scarcely extended to five years.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

I would further propose to the Consideration of my afflicted Disciple, that possibly what she now looks upon as the greatest Misfortune, is not really such in it self.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The gentle lady dreamed, and concealed it not, to the prince wisely said it as soon as she awoke.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

He accepted; but whenever she spoke of returning to Paris: “Why so soon?”
— from Monsieur de Camors — Complete by Octave Feuillet

The plea was successful, and the officer escaped with a small fine.
— from Practical Argumentation by George K. (George Kynett) Pattee

Here the harbour works were visited and admired:— "The quay," says Southey, "is very fine; and Telford has carried out his pier 900 feet beyond the point where Smeaton's terminated.
— from The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain by Samuel Smiles

She was a large vessel, too, and well armed, if all the ports which showed on a side had guns to them; and she was, probably, as are most of the Greek vessels of that class, very fast.
— from The Pirate of the Mediterranean: A Tale of the Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

Time regulated all this, but in those days Cologne clung proudly to the position which she had attained as a champion of the orthodox religion.
— from The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

Not one man in ten who leaves them has ever been practically exercised in operations on the cadaver, and the proportion was still smaller before the war.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various

They had followed me in all my windings—for it appeared that I had traveled in all directions—and had come up with me just as I had sunk with exhaustion, and the panther was so close upon me.
— from Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match by Francis C. (Francis Channing) Woodworth

That day, as he looked out, the platform was strangely crowded, and it suddenly dawned on him, from the eager faces of the people and their excited gestures, that it was papers they wanted!
— from The Boyhood of Great Inventors by A. Fraser Robertson