'I got my Chief to speak to the First Lord and the Secretary for War, and they are bringing Royer over a day sooner. — from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
There were boys of fifteen who had spent a day and a half on an islet in the middle of a flooded river, taking charge, as by right, of a camp of frantic pilgrims returning from a shrine. — from Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Alexander the Sixth arose afterwards, who of all the pontiffs that have ever been showed how a pope with both money and arms was able to prevail; and through the instrumentality of the Duke Valentino, and by reason of the entry of the French, he brought about all those things which I have discussed above in the actions of the duke. — from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
art by reason of
By transferring them to the stage, it creates works which doubtless belong to art in that their only visible aim is to please, but which will be found to contrast with other works of art by reason of their generality and also of their scarcely confessed or scarcely conscious intention to correct and instruct. — from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson
and by reason of
For to unequals equals become unequal, if they are not harmonised by measure; and both by reason of equality, and by reason of inequality, cities are filled with seditions. — from Laws by Plato
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a bill regulating oaths
Trumbull, Jonathan , Representative from Connecticut, 21 , 175 , 255 , 315 , 388 , 455 , 527 ; on a committee to report a bill regulating oaths, 22 ; elected Speaker, 315 ; speech on taking the chair, 315 ; moves an amendment to the bill on the slave trade, 480 ; Senator from Connecticut, 591 . — from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress
acknowledged by return of
It would be acknowledged by return of post in English and in Latin, and the donor's name would be inscribed, not indeed (and this is a regrettable lapse) in that famous old register which Bodley provided should always be in a prominent place in his library, but in the Annual Statement of Accounts now regularly issued. — from In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays by Augustine Birrell
attended by representatives of
Thus at the Congress of Wilhelmsbad convened on July 16, 1782, and attended by representatives of masonic bodies from all over the world, the first question propounded by the Grand Master of the Templars (i.e. the Stricte Observance) was: " What is the real object of the Order and its true origin ?" — from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster
a bird rests on
From year to year he dwelt on land as a bird rests on the branch of a tree, so tense with the power of brusque flight into its true element that it is incomprehensible why it should sit still minute after minute. — from Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad
a block reminding one
Policemen occupy the center of the street at every termination of a block, reminding one, as they look down the streets, of so many posts. — from Six Months in Mexico by Nellie Bly
and battered remains of
It was here, at Purley House, or Purley Bury as it is properly styled, close by the few poor scrubby and battered remains of the once noble woodland of Purley Oaks, that John Horne Tooke, contentious partisan and stolid begetter of seditious tracts, lived—when, indeed, he was not detained within the four walls of some prison for political offences. — from The Brighton Road: The Classic Highway to the South by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
and broken roof of
Lost to the ken of his few friends, her boy wandered sorrowfully to another part of the country, and winter storms soon left but the crumbling walls and broken roof of what had been his home. — from Stories of the Border Marches by Jean Lang
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