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as death turned

Groholsky listened, and turning white as death, turned softly towards the speakers.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

and departed the

We separated without tears at night; I returned to my paltry lodging, and departed the second day after my arrival, almost without knowing whither to go to.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

are doing their

How little parents realize the harm they are doing their children by allowing them to grow up ignorant of or indifferent to the marvelous possibilities in the art of conversation!
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

a division to

Seeing the advance, repulse, and second advance of J. E. Smith from the position I occupied, I directed Thomas to send a division to reinforce him.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

a dozen times

In clauses introduced by posteā quam or postquam , the imperfect or pluperfect subjunctive, found a dozen times in the manuscripts of Cicero’s works and elsewhere, is generally corrected in modern editions or usually the conjunctive particle is emended to posteā quom ( cum ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

and dice that

Up and to the office, where a meeting about the Victuallers’ accounts all the morning, and at noon all of us to Kent’s, at the Three Tuns’ Tavern, and there dined well at Mr. Gawden’s charge; and, there the constable of the parish did show us the picklocks and dice that were found in the dead man’s pocket, and but 18d.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

any desire to

Then followed another period of silence and dejection, in which the prisoner wasted away as much in body as in spirit, becoming so listlessly indifferent to everything, that he no longer betrayed any desire to draw Najara into conversation, nor even to meet the advances which his jailer now often made.
— from The Infidel; or, the Fall of Mexico. Vol. I. by Robert Montgomery Bird

and distinguish them

This conception, he claims, is the first ray of light to guide us to a true theory of war and thereby enable us to classify wars and distinguish them one from another.
— from Some Principles of Maritime Strategy by Julian Stafford Corbett

a disk the

The calyx is more or less bell-shaped, usually with five lobes, its tube lined with a disk, the stamens inserted at base of the lobes and the anthers attached to the lobes by tufts of hairs.
— from Field Book of Western Wild Flowers by Margaret Armstrong

always difficult to

It was always difficult to get a rectification at Joint Committee, and it was thought best to arrange a uniform or relative price between the whole and broken prices, so that, no matter how the prices in the former might alter, the relative difference would never vary.
— from A History of the Durham Miner's Association 1870-1904 by John Wilson

any day to

desirable for the teacher to know more than she teaches, in nature-study she may well be a learner with her pupils since they are likely any day to read some page of nature's book never before read by human eyes.
— from Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets Being a selection, with revision, from the teachers' leaflets, home nature-study lessons, junior naturalist monthlies and other publications from the College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1896-1904 by New York State College of Agriculture

and down the

Many of the Copernicus streaks start from craterlets within the rim, flow up the inside and down the outside of the walls.
— from The Moon: A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger

a dart threatening

" Spies, yo call us?" with a finger like a dart, threatening the enemy—"Aye; an' yo're aboot reet!
— from Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

and during the

Before and during the Thirty Years' War they were the most ardent instigators of Maximilian, and, when the terror of the Swedes had passed away, they entered upon a period of great prosperity in the impoverished country.
— from A Candid History of the Jesuits by Joseph McCabe

at dat time

Ef you know what's good fer you, Minervy Ann, you won't go up dar a-doggin' atter Hamp.' "Well, suh, right at dat time I had de idee dat
— from Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, October 1899 by Various

and difficult to

They therefore held another meeting and offered to lend the King £5000—“although it was a hard thing and difficult to do.”
— from Mediæval London, Volume 1: Historical & Social by Walter Besant

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