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and ginger I never saw this

Founder generally yields to bleeding and two or three doses of salts with sulphur and ginger: I never saw this treatment fail.
— from Cattle and Cattle-breeders by William McCombie

against God is not subject to

'The carnal mind is enmity against God; is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be;' but the world saw little in me of that image which they hate, and enough of assimilation to balance that little.
— from The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. by Isabella Graham

as gods is not subject to

Reflection teaches us that what we conceive as gods is not subject to outer control.
— from Christianity as Mystical Fact, and the Mysteries of Antiquity by Rudolf Steiner

a girl is not supposed to

Do you think that I am going to see you ruin yourself with wine and women and cards, simply because there are things a girl is not supposed to know?
— from The Purple Fern by Fergus Hume

and genial in new society than

Americans are in some respects more cosmopolitan and genial in new society, than Englishmen, and I was struck with this repeatedly in my transatlantic trip.
— from Recollections of a Long Life by John Stoughton

and girth I never saw the

For prodigious height and girth I never saw the like of the trees, which were besides wondrous fair to the eye, but painful to get through by reason of their great abundance, and the maze of vines and bramble (as I must call them, knowing not their names) which netted them together.
— from The Admirable Lady Biddy Fane Her Surprising Curious Adventures In Strange Parts & Happy Deliverance From Pirates, Battle, Captivity, & Other Terrors; Together With Divers Romantic & Moving Accidents As Set Forth By Benet Pengilly (Her Companion In Misfortune & Joy), & Now First Done Into Print by Frank Barrett

a good idea now say there

Wait, I have a good idea now; say there is a coach upset at the bottom of the hill, and that they are asking for a hay-rope to mend it with.
— from Poets and Dreamers: Studies and translations from the Irish by Lady Gregory

a genuine Irish night singing the

He had a wide knowledge of old Irish airs, and to his accompaniment we had many a genuine Irish night, singing the stirring songs then appearing in the "Nation."
— from The Life Story of an Old Rebel by John Denvir

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