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If Henry could, by an effort of will, have transported the Countess to the uttermost ends of the earth, he would have made the effort without remorse.

From The Haunted Hotel by Collins, Wilkie

Could he by an act of will have transported Tabitha to the further side of the Mountains of the Moon, nobody in Staplehurst would have seen much more of her that year.

From All's Well Alice's Victory by Lewin, M.