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a monkey by enchantment resume

First repeating some magic words over it, she dashed it into my face saying, "If you are only a monkey by enchantment, resume the form of the man you were before.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

and may be easily referred

The censures of the critics by profession are extant, and may be easily referred to:—careless lines, inequality in the merit of the different poems, and (in the lighter works) a predilection for the strange and whimsical; in short, such faults as might have been anticipated in a young and rapid writer, were indeed sufficiently enforced.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

accusative may be easily remembered

Prepositions which accompany the accusative may be easily remembered in this order: ante , apud , ad , adversum , circum , cis , ob , trāns , secundum , penes , pōne , prope , per , post , and all in -ā and -ter .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

ablative may be easily remembered

Prepositions which accompany the ablative may be easily remembered in this order: abs ( ab , ā ), cum , cōram , dē , prae , prō , sine , ex (or ē ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

also must be eternally recurring

This, this is what is eternal in the ‘existence’ of penalty, that existence also must be eternally recurring deed and guilt!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

and may be easily restored

I dare not say that the more the curve, the greater the age and the more the value; but it may be that curved Bokhara saddle-bags, passed by, by the Levite, are prizes to be picked up by the good Samaritan, and may be easily restored to normal rectitude.
— from The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. by William De Lancey Ellwanger

as may be easily recognized

If even for a single instant we let the latter slip out of our mind, our eye moves towards the former, as may be easily recognized by the after-images produced, or by the muscular sounds heard.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

as might be expected revealed

More careful study of the problem, as might be expected, revealed new factors and greater complexity.
— from The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

and may be either rough

His instrument has six holes, but no keys, and may be either rough or smoothly finished.
— from The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Anna Harriette Leonowens

a Mountain by Elisee Reclus

A great many puzzlers entered into competition for The History of a Mountain , by Elisee Reclus, offered in No. 105 as a prize for the best puzzle which should be sent in before December 7, 1881.
— from Harper's Young People, January 3 1882 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

and may be easily recognized

Like other abutilons, it is sometimes called flowering maple because of the maple-like leaves, and may be easily recognized by the seed-capsules, which are about ½ inch high and divided into 7-9 cells.
— from Texas Flowers in Natural Colors by Eula Whitehouse

and Mr Bob exclaimed rubbing

Here Mr. John stopped, and jumping hastily up, and turning round to Mrs. Sally, Mrs. Nelly, and Mr. Bob, exclaimed, rubbing his hands—‘There ladies, I have finished my story; and, let me tell you, so long preaching has made my throat dry, so another mug of ale, if you please, Master Bobby (tapping him at the same time upon the shoulder), another mug of ale, my boy; for faith, talking at the rate I have done, is enough to wear a man’s lungs out, and, in truth, I have need of something to hearten me after such fatigue.’
— from The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse by Dorothy Kilner

and might be easily repaired

A chimney has been added to it, but it is otherwise not much injured, and might be easily repaired.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by James Boswell

a maiden beautiful exceedingly riding

Oisīn and Niam It happened that on a misty summer morning as Finn and Oisīn with many companions were hunting on the shores of Loch Lena they saw coming towards them a maiden, beautiful exceedingly, riding on a snow-white steed.
— from Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston

and may be easily recognised

Bernard's style was much influenced by the Italian painters Rosso and Primaticcio, who had been invited by the King to decorate Fontainebleau, and may be easily recognised by the extreme height and tenuity of his figures, and by the peculiar ornament which he used as framework for his drawings.
— from A Brief History of Wood-engraving from Its Invention by Joseph Cundall

Abbots may be easily reached

Stanstead Abbots may be easily reached from St. Margaret’s Station, G.E.R., ½ mile
— from Hertfordshire by Herbert W. (Herbert Winckworth) Tompkins

as might be expected responded

And she, as might be expected, responded to the passionate chord which sounded this challenge to fortune.
— from The Wheel O' Fortune by Louis Tracy

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