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atone for past dereliction

“Madame,” replied Villefort, with a mournful smile, “I have already had the honor to observe that my father has—at least, I hope so—abjured his past errors, and that he is, at the present moment, a firm and zealous friend to religion and order—a better royalist, possibly, than his son; for he has to atone for past dereliction, while I have no other impulse than warm, decided preference and conviction.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

and Father Païssy did

Both the Superintendent and Father Païssy did their utmost to calm the general bustle and agitation.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

a few paces distant

There was nothing in the field or on the hill except a deformed tree, which writhed and shivered a few paces distant from the wayfarer.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

arise from pathological disturbances

[572] Such stimuli as arise from after-theatre dinners, wine-parties, and so forth, produce a well-known type of dreams; and the same stimuli at the same period of time would produce an equal effect, though an altered one, to suit the altered psycho-physical [Pg 465] conditions, if the waking state were active rather than the dream state, just as would all dreams which arise from pathological disturbances in disease, or abnormal physiological functions.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

and Fyodor Pavlovitch dined

Perhaps at this moment he is in the restaurant with Ivan Fyodorovitch, for Ivan Fyodorovitch has not been home to dinner and Fyodor Pavlovitch dined alone an hour ago, and is gone to lie down.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

a few paces distant

The mud spread in cross-form over the Place des Victoires, where stands the statue of Louis XIV.; it entered the Rue Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the Rue Saint-Florentin through the Saint-Florentin sewer, the Rue Pierre-à-Poisson through the sewer de la Sonnerie, the Rue Popincourt, through the sewer of the Chemin-Vert, the Rue de la Roquette, through the sewer of the Rue de Lappe; it covered the drain of the Rue des Champs-Élysées to the height of thirty-five centimetres; and, to the South, through the vent of the Seine, performing its functions in inverse sense, it penetrated the Rue Mazarine, the Rue de l‘Échaudé, and the Rue des Marais, where it stopped at a distance of one hundred and nine metres, a few paces distant from the house in which Racine had lived, respecting, in the seventeenth century, the poet more than the King.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

a false perspective do

We must observe, however, that only by virtue of a false perspective do ideas seems to govern action, or is a felt necessity the mother of invention.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

a fertile plain deservedly

Round this lake lies a fertile plain, deservedly called the granary of the country.—According to elevation there are several zones Page 16
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

AND FROM PHOTOGRAPHS DEDICATED

THE SPANISH CHEST BY EDNA A. BROWN ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN GOSS AND FROM PHOTOGRAPHS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF FLORENCE AND CLARA who shared a winter spent in the Channel Islands and have now gone on a longer journey.
— from The Spanish Chest by Edna A. Brown

At first PHOEBE does

( At first PHOEBE does not understand, then a suspicion of his meaning comes to her. )
— from Quality Street: A Comedy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

and for prophesying dress

Moreover, the Shamans, in Siberia, when preparing themselves for performing incantations, and for prophesying, dress themselves in garments to which are attached tinkling and rattling appendages.
— from Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 1 (of 2) by Carl Engel

and forty persons dressed

In the first division rode eight and forty persons dressed in the habits of Esquires, with Red Coats, Say 2 Gowns, and beautiful Vizards.
— from Mediæval London, Volume 1: Historical & Social by Walter Besant

a French polisher drank

[250] The following case came under my own observation:—A stout woman, 35 years of age, the wife of a French polisher, drank, in a fit of rage, a solution of cyanide of potassium.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

a few paces distance

He had followed the rest at a few paces' distance, and had only just arrived to look at the dead girl over Wyllard's shoulder.
— from Wyllard's Weird: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

and for practising devilry

[196] At the same place, a year previous, Margaret Wallace was also sentenced to be hanged and burned, on the same kind of charge, and for "practising devilry, incantation, and witchcraft, especially forbidden by the laws of Almighty God, and the municipal laws of this realm."
— from Religion & Sex: Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Chapman Cohen

and flexor perforatus digiti

flexor perforatus digiti IV and flexor perforatus digiti II, the fibular and distal arms of the guide loop for M. extensor iliofibularis, and the lateral part of the articular capsule; a part of the common tendon of origin of the anterolateral heads of Mm.
— from Variation in the Muscles and Nerves of the Leg in Two Genera of Grouse (Tympanuchus and Pedioecetes) by E. Bruce Holmes

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