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the appositive position is often called an

An adjective in the appositive position is often called an appositive adjective ( § 172 ).
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

to a peg in one corner and

As the old man concluded his tale, he advanced to a peg in one corner, and taking down his hat and coat, put them on with great deliberation; and, without saying another word, walked slowly away.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

taken a paper image of Christ and

Within that class so long ago, from a lost being of himself, had he not taken a paper image of Christ and varnished it onto a piece of wood?
— from Corpus of a Siam Mosquito by Steven David Justin Sills

to all persons in other classes and

It is a life of the extremest simplicity, without all those interests outside the home and the daily task, the innumerable distractions, common to all persons in other classes and to the workmen in towns as well.
— from A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

there as probably in other cases a

Again, in Greece the like relation is everywhere seen: the original type being there, as probably in other cases, a simultaneous chanting and mimetic representation of the life and adventures of the god.
— from Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions by Herbert Spencer

them a perfect imitation of chestnut at

A friend of mine in the city, wishing to use rugs instead of carpets on her floors, and not caring to go to the expense of laying hardwood floors, gave the old floors a couple of coats of light lemon, or straw-colored paint, then stained and grained them a perfect imitation of chestnut, at small expense.
— from Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" by Edith May Bertels Thomas

treated as persons in one census and

If its application were left to Congress, in adjusting the system with reference to slaveholding States, the slaves must be counted as persons or as property; and as the proposed rule did not determine which, they might be treated as persons in one census, and as property in the next, and so on interchangeably.
— from History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 2 With Notices of Its Principle Framers by George Ticknor Curtis

takes a place in our confidence and

It is because He gave Himself for us, willing to do all to save us in our direst need, that He takes a place in our confidence and in our heart that belongs to no other.
— from How to become like Christ by Marcus Dods

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