Soe, perhaps, they did in the first Instance, for it appears they have beene ailing ever since the Year I left him; and Overstuddy, which my Presence mighte have prevented, hath Conduced to the same ill Effect.
"Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary"
Anne Manning
The gift naturally Conduced to parties on horseback-it was cruel entirely to separate the Arab from his friends-and how was Evelyn to be left behind?
"Alice, or The Mysteries, Book II"
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Her sympathetic tenderness of heart Conduced much to this, for she learned in some degree to forget her own sorrows in the contemplation of those of others.
"In the Track of the Troops"
R.M. Ballantyne