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Are any of

Are any of your younger sisters out, Miss Bennet?”
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

an account of

I first saw an account of this matter in the “Tour” of Prince Puckler Muskau, who makes the sum inherited ninety millions of pounds , and justly observes that “in the contemplation of so vast a sum, and of the services to which it might be applied, there is something even of the sublime.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

an Admiralty official

I was anxious to give my testimony to the merits of Pepys as an Admiralty official, leaving his literary merits to you.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

an animal of

Why, then, can an animal of earth not live in the second element, that is, in water, while it can in the third?
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

and an old

Thirty were chosen, and an old sergeant placed at their head.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

and at other

It would prolong this work to give a detailed account of all that took place from day to day around Petersburg and at other parts of my command, and it would not interest the general reader if given.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

awful abode of

Death and the awful abode of lost souls, whither my weakness long ago had sent him—they had changed him for every other eye, but not for mine.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

and among others

Thence walked a good while up and down the gallerys; and among others, met with Dr. Clerke, who in discourse tells me, that Sir Charles Barkeley’s greatness is only his being pimp to the King, and to my Lady Castlemaine.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

an advance on

I rail at the theistic credulity of Voltaire, the amoristic superstition of Shelley, the revival of tribal soothsaying and idolatrous rites which Huxley called Science and mistook for an advance on the Pentateuch, no less than at the welter of ecclesiastical and professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

an arrangement of

He had invented an arrangement of boards for the purpose.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

attached at once

Suspicion seems to have attached at once to the D’Anglades, although they readily offered to allow their premises to be searched.
— from Mysteries of Police and Crime, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Arthur Griffiths

an act of

According to these writers, to affirm implies an act of approval, an appreciation on the part of the feelings, while denial is an act of disapproval, a feeling of repugnance.
— from The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong by Franz Brentano

and ablest of

"Only think, reader," moralizes Marino Sanuto, "what grief and shame so great and glorious a lord, who had been held to be the wisest of monarchs and ablest of rulers, must have felt at losing so splendid a state in these few days, without a single stroke of the sword....
— from Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 by Julia Cartwright

and an Oklahoma

My diagnosis of "Texas cowboy" only missed the truth by the difference between that and an "Oklahoma oil driller, with a 'Varsity education and a ranch of his own."
— from Stories of the Ships by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

an awning over

The fire was supposed to have been started by a smoker in an upper story of the apartment-house throwing the 238 butt of his cigarette out the window and onto an awning over the woman’s window.
— from Four Years in the Underbrush: Adventures as a Working Woman in New York by Anonymous

achievements and on

Architecture, painting, sculpture and poetry possess practical proofs of their past achievements and on these their present endeavors are builded.
— from For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music by Aubertine Woodward Moore

and appreciation of

This quiet life, in which the gentle soul of Hayne, with its delicate sensitiveness, poetic insight, and appreciation of all beauty, found congenial environment, soon suffered a rude interruption.
— from Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by La Salle Corbell Pickett

and agony of

Prolonged starvation and agony of the mind is worse than starvation and agony of the body, carrying, as it does, the wreck of the body with it.
— from A Sheaf by John Galsworthy

atrocities and outrages

There is nothing in history to equal the atrocities and outrages that have been perpetrated by Spain upon Cuba.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

an ace of

The valuable life of the Secretary of State during the administration of the younger Adams was saved only by his antagonist magnanimously refusing to return the fire which came within an ace of ending his own life.
— from Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson

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