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admitting both sexes at the

It was in this capacity that she founded the English branch of the Order under the name of Co-Masonry (that is, admitting both sexes) at the Lodge "Human Duty" in London, which was consecrated on September 26, 1902, and later founded another lodge at Adyar in India, named "The Rising Sun."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

and be still advancing throughout

Although organisation, on the whole, may have advanced and be still advancing throughout the world, yet the scale will always present many degrees of perfection; for the high advancement of certain whole classes, or of certain members of each class, does not at all necessarily lead to the extinction of those groups with which they do not enter into close competition.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

animals by selection and then

After remarking that negroes and mulattoes enjoy an immunity from certain tropical diseases, he observes, firstly, that all animals tend to vary in some degree, and, secondly, that agriculturists improve their domesticated animals by selection; and then, he adds, but what is done in this latter case "by art, seems to be done with equal efficacy, though more slowly, by nature, in the formation of varieties of mankind, fitted for the country which they inhabit.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Amsterdam but she arrived there

At the date of the charter-party the vessel was not in Amsterdam, but she arrived there four days later.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

appeased by such a trivial

I am bewitched!” (Circe’s anger was far from being appeased by such a trivial excuse; turning her eyes contemptuously away from me, she looked at her maid,) “Tell me, Chrysis, and tell me truly, is there anything repulsive about me?
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

a big swing around the

Something, in two minutes, had disappeared off the scope to the north, made a big swing around the ship, out of radar range, and had swung in from the south!
— from The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt

and being secured against the

They take bullocks' hides along with them, and whenever this storm arises and throws them into the Sea of Nikpha, they sew themselves up in the hides, taking care to have a knife in their hand, and being secured against the sea-water, they throw themselves into the ocean; here they are soon perceived by a large eagle, called griffin, which takes them for cattle, darts down, takes them in his gripe, and carries them upon dry land, where he deposits his burthen on a hill or in a dale, there to consume his prey.
— from The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume 1 (of 2) by Juan González de Mendoza

and by south and this

The one praises the south-east, the other the south-west; this the west and by south, and this the east and by north; another the west, and another the east; and so of the rest.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by François Rabelais

a body such as the

Does the author think that we are simple enough to believe, with all the jarring, clashing sects which have sprung out of this individual interpretation of the Bible before our eyes a principle, too, which furnishes the sceptic with the means of wresting its words to his own destruction—that, if each man interpret it for himself, the final decision in each particular case is any less human than the unanimous decision which a body, such as the Catholic Church is, gives without variation for nineteen centuries? {793} This gratuitous assumption about the "interior witness of the Spirit" is cant, not argument; for where does the individual find any assurance that each and every man will be so assisted?
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

and became so accustomed to

On Saturdays, when the wind and weather were at all favourable, I used frequently to hurry away from business as early as possible, and sail home along the Bure and Ant, a distance of about twenty miles, rather more than less, and became so accustomed to the route that I knew every tree and post, aye, and almost every reed and bulrush on the river's bank on my homeward way.
— from Jethou; or, Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles by Ernest R. (Ernest Richard) Suffling

and Beth Shemesh and the

19:18 Their border was to Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem, 19:19 and Hapharaim, and Shion, and Anaharath, 19:20 and Rabbith, and Kishion, and Ebez, 19:21 and Remeth, and Engannim, and En Haddah, and Beth Pazzez, 19:22 and the border reached to Tabor, and Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh; and the goings out of their border were at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

a big storm and the

The plain is open, there has been a big storm, and the distance is not too great for it to reach us.
— from Among the Esquimaux; or, Adventures under the Arctic Circle by Edward Sylvester Ellis

all becoming so after the

I would not make this apply, however, to those already voters, but I would to all becoming so after the expiration of the probation fixed upon.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

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