"aeacus" hidden in books

And Egyptian architecture culminated under Seti

And Egyptian architecture culminated under Seti and his son Ramesses.
— from Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson

answering emails and cleaning up some

Sitting at her desk all morning answering emails and cleaning up some draft posts before blogging them had her in knots.
— from Makers by Cory Doctorow

alien environment a completely unknown situation

He was in a totally alien environment, a completely unknown situation.
— from But, I Don't Think by Randall Garrett

As ever a coward used So

Neutrality is as fine a word As ever a coward used, So the honour that I gave to you
— from Random Rhymes and Rambles by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

any extensive argument concerning universal salvation

Our object in this chapter is to consider the Orthodox view, and we shall not, therefore, enter into any extensive argument concerning universal salvation.
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

and eschew all cowardly underhand secret

I am myself an Irishman, a Protestant, a Unionist and an Imperialist, just as ready to fight for our King and Flag as ever I was during the forty years I passed on the Colonial frontiers, but I can blame none of my countrymen for the hatred they feel towards England, provided they fight like men and eschew all cowardly, underhand, secret societies; and I am convinced it will require many centuries to roll past before the recollection of the Penal Laws and the foul, savage treachery of past English rule is obliterated, while the curse of Cromwell will remain for ever.
— from Camp Fire Yarns of the Lost Legion by G. Hamilton-Browne

as easily as children under six

If adults learned as easily as children under six years of age, it would be an easy matter to do away with illiteracy.
— from The Montessori Method Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in 'The Children's Houses' with Additions and Revisions by the Author by Maria Montessori

almost exaggerated and certainly uncritical sense

Again, when Europe woke to a sense, an almost exaggerated and certainly uncritical sense, of the value of her songs of the people, of all the ballads that Herder, Scott, Lonnrot, and the rest collected, it was commonly said that Homer was a ballad-minstrel, that the translator must imitate the simplicity, and even adopt the formulae of the ballad.
— from The Odyssey of Homer, Done into English Prose by Homer

and eastern and central United States

90 .) Range: Central Europe and eastern and central United States.
— from Studies of Trees by Jacob Joshua Levison

and expropriation all corporations Uncompensated suppression

How the State used its right of overseeing and reforming them.—Social usefulness of corporations.—The sound part in the monastic institution.—Zeal and services of nuns.—How ecclesiastical possessions should be employed.—Principle of the Assembly as to private communities, feudal rights and trust-funds.—Abolition and expropriation all corporations. —Uncompensated suppression of tithes.—Confiscation of ecclesiastical possessions.—Effect on the Treasury and on expropriated services.—The civil constitution of the clergy.—Rights of the Church in relation to the State.
— from The French Revolution - Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine

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