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as by some earthquakes thunder

If one sense alone can cause such violent commotions of the mind, what may we think when hearing, sight, and those other senses are all troubled at once? as by some earthquakes, thunder, lightning, tempests, &c.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

and baths saying emphatically that

The doctor then told me I had better give up taking the waters and baths, saying emphatically that I was quite unfit for such cures.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

agitation become strong enough to

The reason why, in any tolerable constituted society, justice and the general interest mostly in the end carry their point, is that the separate and selfish interests of mankind are almost always divided; some are interested in what is wrong, but some, also, have their private interest on the side of what is right; and those who are governed by higher considerations, though too few and weak to prevail alone, usually, after sufficient discussion and agitation, become strong enough to turn the balance in favor of the body of private interests which is on the same side with them.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

and barn stood embracing the

After a time, all these resources failed, and his large grant of eight hundred acres of land had been converted into whiskey, except the one hundred acres on which his house and barn stood, embracing the small clearing from which the family derived their scanty supply of wheat and potatoes.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Amphipolis by surprise except the

The weather was stormy and it was snowing a little, which encouraged him to hurry on, in order, if possible, to take every one at Amphipolis by surprise, except the party who were to betray it.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

and by similarly expanding the

71 By saying, instead of “you are ready to labour,” “you regard labour as the guide to a pleasant life,” and by similarly expanding the rest of that passage, he gives to his eulogy a much wider and loftier range of sentiment.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

adjustment between saying enough to

The wise adjustment between saying enough to awaken interest and not too much to cause danger is a very important question of tact.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

against buying small estates to

*b The calculations of gain, therefore, which decide the rich man to sell his domain will still more powerfully influence him against buying small estates to unite them into a large one.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

away between speculation extravagance the

Imagine a salary list that gives $350 a month to a man that can't read and write!—yet I believe in it, even though I've seen what was once a sizable fortune melt away between speculation, extravagance, the democratic administration, and the income tax—modern, that's me all over, Mabel.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

and be smart enough to

I was much afraid that the sharp shooters from their barges would take me for a target and be smart enough to hit me; and a heavy shower with thunder and lightning passing over us during the night, did not alleviate my distress.
— from History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, and Life of Chauncey Jerome Barnum's Connection with the Yankee Clock Business by Chauncey Jerome

age became so embarrassed that

The so-called Memoirs of the Sanson Family are more than half suspected to be mainly apocryphal, and to have been written by one D’Olbreuse, a bookseller’s hack; and, according to a writer in the Paris Temps , in 1875 the last of the Sansons was a remarkably mild, flaccid and stupid old gentleman, who was certainly incapable of writing any “Memoirs” whatever, since his own memory was hopelessly decayed, and whose circumstances in his old age became so embarrassed that he was arrested for debt, and confined in the prison of Clichy, whence he only procured his enlargement by pawning the guillotine itself for 4,000 francs!
— from The Romance of Madame Tussaud's by John Theodore Tussaud

ago by saying evil things

He had tried his best,—so at least she was convinced,—to drive her out of the pale of society, years upon years ago, by saying evil things of her.
— from He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope

and became strong enough to

However, he undid the chains by the help of magic, and took care of the Prince until he recovered and became strong enough to travel.
— from The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

and bravest spirits ever to

Are our best and bravest spirits ever to be carried away under this system of constantly-resisted oppression and constantly-defeated revolt?
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

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