Where no barriers have been put against the emigration of the poor or the ambitious, unless special causes have arisen to create discontent with one’s condition, the extent to which European countries have contributed to our immigrant population may be measured fairly closely by the economic conditions at home.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

He entered the town privately, and consulting with some of the leaders of his party, whom he found there, was easily convinced he could not be of any service to his friends.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

In these suspicions Tennessee's Partner was equally compromised; his continued intimacy with Tennessee after the affair above quoted could only be accounted for on the hypothesis of a copartnership of crime.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

He and No. 10 did most of the work, each changing his cell five times.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

IV Next day, with Platon and Constantine, Chichikov set forth to interview Khlobuev, the owner whose estate Constantine had consented to help Chichikov to purchase with a non-interest-bearing, uncovenanted loan of ten thousand roubles.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

The personal guilt which every Christian had contracted, in thus preferring his private sentiment to the national religion, was aggravated in a very high degree by the number and union of the criminals.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

In all cases much must be left of necessity to the translator’s judgement, and he, with every care he can take, must still be content to share, with Pope and Dryden and the greatest masters of rhyme, the consciousness of scarcely ever being able fully to convey the conceptions of a foreign author.
— from Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain by James Kennedy

The battle of Cannæ furnished a memorable example of its danger: after continual discord between Paulus Æmilius and Varro, the latter took advantage of his day of command to give the signal for battle, without even consulting his colleague, an old and experienced soldier: and the result was the delivery of Hannibal from a very critical position by the utter destruction of the Roman army.
— from Historical Parallels, vol. 2 of 3) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

Not even his worst enemy could have called this young man romantic; yet that figure beside him, the gleam of her neck and her pale cheek in the dark, gave him perhaps the most poignant glimpse of mystery that he had ever had.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

He retraced everything that he had done to see if he couldn't have found some margin in which error could have crept in.
— from The White Feather Hex by Don Peterson

[335] Now, the fundamental principle of such a pacification, which Buonaparte seems to the very last to have considered as the mutual basis of common interest, was such as could not, ought not, nay, dared not, have been adopted by any ministry which England could have chosen, so long as she possessed a free Parliament.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume III. by Walter Scott

"What else could he come for?"
— from Fated to Be Free: A Novel by Jean Ingelow

Strain Never so much my eyes, I miss the mark If lived or died that Gaetano, child Of Guido and Pompilia: only find, Immediately upon his father's death, A record, in the annals of the town— That Porzia, sister of our Guido, moved The Priors of Arezzo and their head Its Gonfalonier to give loyally A public attestation of the right O' the Franceschini to all reverence— Apparently because of the incident O' the murder,—there 's no mention made o' the crime, But what else could have caused such urgency To cure the mob, just then, of greediness For scandal, love of lying vanity, And appetite to swallow crude reports That bring annoyance to their betters?—bane Which, here, was promptly met by antidote.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

Mittens of dressed deerskin were suspended from his shoulders by a worsted cord, and a fur cap with earpieces completed his costume.
— from Kasba (White Partridge): A Story of Hudson Bay by George R. Ray

That’s why everybody called him Chicken, because his first name was Hen.”
— from Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective by Ellis Parker Butler

And who else could have caused the crash?" "Well, there certainly is no other——" "Of course not.
— from The Best Made Plans by Everett B. Cole