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at last Your endeavours are

" Then Sveinke was silent for a short time, and said at last, "Your endeavours are wise; but I have my suspicions that ye are changing a little the king's message.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Accordingly let your every action

Accordingly, let your every action be a similar part of the social life.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

And leave your England as

Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy And leave your England as dead midnight still, Guarded with grandsires, babies, and old women, Either past or not arriv'd to pith and puissance; For who is he whose chin is but enrich'd With one appearing hair that will not follow These cull'd and choice-drawn cavaliers to France?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

a llorar y exclamó Admet

Zama rompió a llorar, y exclamó: —¡Admet! ¿
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

and love yet eager as

We are painting the character of a man disappointed in ambition and love; yet eager as of old for power—such elements, though imperfect, are human.
— from History of the Anglo-Saxons, from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest Second Edition by Thomas Miller

and lay your ear against

"You can 'ear it!" "But what?" "Get up there and lay your ear against that vein.
— from The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper

and love your enemies and

"Then your belief is perfectly worthless; for the Bible charges you to 'forgive and love your enemies,' and here you are trying to fan your hate into an everlasting flame."
— from Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

anxiety lest you entertain a

What with the insufficiency of your means to meet the demands of disinfection, and what with the difficulty of getting properly prepared food even if you have the money, and what with the continual strain of anxiety lest you entertain a microbe unawares, you grow thin and nervous.
— from The Unpopular Review Vol. I January-June 1914 by Various

Ay lift your eyes and

Ay, lift your eyes and wonder.
— from The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

a little youthful energy a

Their trials until now had been of the light and transient kind, which a little youthful energy, a little determination of purpose, or putting forth of physical power, could overcome and scatter.
— from I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success by A. S. (Azel Stevens) Roe

a little yet every accent

I say," she went on, raising her voice a little—only a little, yet every accent penetrated to the very outskirts of the crowd.
— from The Tree of Knowledge: A Novel by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.

at last Your eyes are

The dying man took away his hand, raised his wife's head, and, looking at her a few moments attentively, he said at last: "Your eyes are very dry.
— from Gerfaut — Volume 4 by Charles de Bernard

and let your elders alone

Eat your supper and let your elders alone."
— from The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska by May Kellogg Sullivan

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