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and be of use to each

She wrote to her old friend Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff: “But even this most sad episode between our two countries has not shaken my faith in our old opinions that there are many, many higher interests in common, why we should get on together and be of use to each other in helping on civilisation and progress.
— from The Empress Frederick: a memoir by Anonymous

and brought out under the editorship

Kuching has its newspaper, which is published fortnightly, in the English language, and brought out under the editorship of the Postmaster.
— from On the Equator by Harry De Windt

a broader one under the eye

A white line from behind the eye, widening on the nape, and a broader one under the eye from the loral region, but not extending on the forehead; occiput and sides of head uniform black.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

are brought out under the edge

In this, all four ends of wire are brought out under the edge of the chimney (Fig. 88).
— from How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity by Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. John

a bit o use to either

" "I'm sorry, gentlemen," said Ginger, "but twenty-five bob a week is not a bit o' use to either on us.
— from The Sailor by J. C. (John Collis) Snaith

afresh both of us together either

If you don't there is my little fortune, with which we must start afresh, both of us together, either on this side of the world or on the other, whichever you may choose."
— from The Datchet Diamonds by Richard Marsh

and by offering up their earnest

They watch for your souls, saith he, not only by preaching and warning every one, and by offering up their earnest prayers to God for you, but likewise by taking such care of ecclesiastical discipline, order, and policy, that they must provide and procure whatsoever shall be expedient for your spiritual good, and direct you in what convenient and beseeming manner you are to perform the works of God's worship, as also to avoid and shun every scandal and inconveniency which may hinder your spiritual good.
— from The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

a boy or upon the enormous

We will pass over the brewing of the punch and the conversation which sweetened it, whether that conversation turned upon the decline of lemons, which the chaplain declared were not half as juicy as when he was a boy, or upon the enormous price of sugar, which the good parson mourned over sincerely.
— from The Fate: A Tale of Stirring Times by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

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