Sir Henry Vane, as the Minister of the Navy, devised and carried through Parliament the famous Navigation Act—an Act which the colony of Massachusetts, by the connivance of Cromwell (who now identified himself with that colony), regularly evaded, at the expense of the American colonies and the English revenue.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

There would be a natural tendency to seek less crowded regions, even at the expense of using difficult mountain trails.
— from Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham

M. Sylvain Van de Weyer, through life the trusted friend and representative of Leopold I. of Belgium, had the expensive hobby of books, collecting rare editions and the earliest printed classics, a taste inherited from his father, who kept a circulating library at Louvain.
— from The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

[Pg 101] When the Portuguese burst suddenly into the Indian Ocean it was a great and powerful state, or rather a vast confederacy of states, with many flourishing cities—Magdoshu, Brava, Mombasa, Melindi, Kilwa, Angosha, Sofala—and widespread commercial relations extending across the eastern waters to India and China, and up the Red Sea to Europe.
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

When the convoy reached England about the end of September, great was the rejoicing among the Adventurers of Canada.
— from The Jesuit Missions : A Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness by Thomas Guthrie Marquis