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at liberty and it moved off

this young animal is very ferce and strikes a severe blow with his beak; after amusing myself with it I had it set at liberty and it moved off apparently much pleased with being releived from his captivity.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

and Libya and into most of

It first began, it is said, in the parts of Ethiopia above Egypt, and thence descended into Egypt and Libya and into most of the King's country.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

at least an indispensable minimum of

The first disciples had been disinherited Jews, with religious habits which men of other races and interests could never have adopted intelligently; the Church was accordingly wise enough to perpetuate in its practice at least an indispensable minimum of popular paganism.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

address line above in my original

From: opresno@extern.uio.no The Network Mailer located the second address line above in my original message, and used this address when sending the bounced message.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

a little alter its Motions or

[Pg 262] must be obliquely incident on them, and so have a shorter way through them than the length of their Diameters, as because the straitness of the Medium put in on all sides within such Corpuscles may a little alter its Motions or other qualities on which the Reflexion depends.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

and looked at its miles of

We visited the Louvre, at a time when we had no silk purchases in view, and looked at its miles of paintings by the old masters.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

and love as if my own

"And for your merchants, I have given express order through all my dominions, to suffer them to buy, sell, transport, and carry away at their pleasure, without the lett or hinderance of any person whatsoever, all such goods and merchandises as they shall desire to buy; and let this my letter as fully satisfie you in desired peace and love, as if my own son had been messenger to ratifie the same.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

at least an indiscriminate measure of

Our calmer reason will reject such pure and perfect monsters of vice or sanctity, and will impute an equal, or at least an indiscriminate, measure of good and evil to the hostile sectaries, who assumed and bestowed the appellations of orthodox and heretics.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

a larger and in my opinion

But here we find Protagoras speaking in a way which implies a larger, and, in my opinion, a juster, appreciation of the ethical end, as including not only reference to a man’s own happiness, but also obligations towards the happiness of others.
— from History of Greece, Volume 08 (of 12) by George Grote

at last an I must organise

“That hobo, Devine, will be here in a minute,” said Jack at last, “an' I must organise for him.”
— from Sandburrs by Alfred Henry Lewis

a living as indeed my own

If, then, they should happen to call, she will hand it to them; if not, I shall use the contents to found a college for the purpose of teaching manners to young women whose grandfather used to feed pigs for a living, as indeed my own grandfather did.
— from Revenge! by Robert Barr

a little absent in manner or

The former is a little absent in manner, or was formerly so; the little girl, I should judge, is attractive in her personal appearance.”
— from Helen Ford by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

a lens and in many other

Binet and Féré to be doubled by a prism or mirror, magnified by a lens, and in many other ways to behave optically like real objects.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James

and Leval arrived in Madrid on

For this same purpose the 4th Corps, that of Lefebvre, was brought up from Old Castile: the Marshal with his two leading divisions, those of Sebastiani and Leval, arrived in Madrid on December 9: his third division, that of Valence, composed of Poles, was some way to the rear, having only reached Burgos on December 1.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809 From the Treaty of Fontainbleau to the Battle of Corunna by Charles Oman

a lasting and invaluable memorial of

“In the two ample volumes just published, and illustrated with more than 300 plates, Mr. Catlin has given to the world a lasting and invaluable memorial of the doomed race of the Red Man, which, after having from immemorial time held the unmolested tenancy of an entire continent, is now but too obviously hurried on to utter extinction.
— from Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 1 (of 2) being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with his North American Indian Collection by George Catlin

at least as it meets our

"His public character, as far at least as it meets our eye, is unquestionably worthy of admiration," he had said one day to his wife, "
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 1 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar

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