Middlemarch vocabulary

Chris Tarrant: In the late 1880's, construction finally began on Henderson's railway from Gibralter on the government proviso that the line would also serve all the small Spanish hilltop towns along its route.

Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways: The Train in Spain (2019)

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Chief of Staff of the regulars, flew from Washington to St. Paul, took command of Fort Snelling, and declared for Walt Trowbridge as Temporary President of the United States, to hold office until there should be a new, universal, and uncontrolled presidential election. Trowbridge proclaimed acceptance— with the proviso that he should not be a candidate for permanent President.

Sinclair Lewis. It Can't Happen Here

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she began to think of her husband's will, which had been made at the time of their marriage, leaving the bulk of his property to her, with proviso in case of her having children.

George Eliot. Middlemarch