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appeared a second edition containing thirty

In 1612 appeared a second edition containing thirty-eight essays, and in 1625, the year before his death, he republished the Essays in their present form, polishing and enlarging the original ten to fifty-eight, covering a wide variety of subjects suggested by the life of men around him.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

as a structural excess compared to

Hermaphrodism may be interpreted simply as a structural defect, compared to the normal form of the male, and as a structural excess compared to that of the female.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

A a12 study examine closely to

2 [A; a12] study, examine closely to analyze.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

am and shall ever continue to

I further take the liberty to state that in my humble quality as one of the rank and file, I am, and shall ever continue to be, your thoroughly devoted and admiring servant and that I esteem the qualities you possess above all others far beyond the limits of the present dispatch.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

are all so egregiously conceited that

IMG It is almost needless to insist upon the several professors of arts and sciences, who are all so egregiously conceited, that they would sooner give up their title to an estate in lands, than part with the reversion of their wits: among these, more especially stage-players, musicians, orators, and poets, each of which, the more of duncery they have, and the more of pride, the greater is their ambition: and how notoriously soever dull they be, they meet with their admirers; nay, the more silly they are the higher they are extolled; Folly (as we have before intimated) never failing of respect and esteem.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

after a sharp engagement captured the

The American Constellation, forty-eight guns, after a sharp engagement, captured the French frigate Insurgent, forty guns.
— from The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country by Henry Mann

are a somewhat extensive class the

And Thirdly—the edible Root crops and Starch producing plants, which are a somewhat extensive class, the chief of which, however, are the common potato, yams, cocos or eddoes, sweet potatoes, the bitter and sweet cassava or manioc, the arrowroot and other plants yielding starch in more or less purity.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

and ambitious spinsterhood equally clutching the

Private boarding-houses sprang up like mushrooms on every block; bereaved relicts and ambitious spinsterhood equally clutching the chance to turn an honest penny.
— from Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. (Thomas Cooper) De Leon

and as such exactly corresponds to

The word painting (your correspondent's stumbling-block) evidently means resemblance—resemblance of character, and as such exactly corresponds to the German word Ebenbild , an image or painting, which is used in the same sense; e.g. Sie hat das Ebenbild ihres Mutters , "She is the very image of her mother."
— from Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

an airship sure enough cried Tom

"That's an airship, sure enough!" cried Tom.
— from Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam by Victor Appleton

and Admiral Sir Edward Codrington the

Mr. Henry Redhead Yorke, at 81; Lord Alvanley, of celebrity in the days of the fourth George, at 62; General Sir Thomas Bradford, and Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, the victor of Navarino.
— from The Memorials of the Hamlet of Knightsbridge with Notices of its Immediate Neighbourhood by Henry George Davis

abundant and so easily caught that

They are so abundant and so easily caught that the natives break off the barbs from their fish-hooks in order to facilitate their operations.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

an audience so easily convinced that

As for me, I often rebelled against declaiming long tirades in defense of a course so evidently just, in the face of an audience so easily convinced that I was in the right.
— from Sylvie: souvenirs du Valois by Gérard de Nerval

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