"anmo" hidden in books

are not mistaken Oh

“Kirillov, my wife is in childbirth.” “How do you mean?” “Childbirth, bearing a child!” “You … are not mistaken?” “Oh, no, no, she is in agonies!
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

and no monopoly of

Baton Rouge has no patent on imitation castles, however, and no monopoly of them.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

are not masters of

Yet this perfect harmony raises the work at the expense of the artist he bees are not masters of transcendent geometry.
— 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 new mode of

VERRIUS FLACCUS 887 , a freedman, distinguished himself by a new mode of teaching; for it was his practice to exercise the wits of his scholars, by encouraging emulation among them; not only proposing the subjects on which they were to write, but offering rewards for those who were successful in the contest.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

And now my own

‘And now, my own dear Davy,’ said Peggotty, ‘if, while you’re a prentice, you should want any money to spend; or if, when you’re out of your time, my dear, you should want any to set you up (and you must do one or other, or both, my darling); who has such a good right to ask leave to lend it
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

and not much of

It had been obvious to all hands for some time that the second mate, whose name was F——, was an idle, careless fellow, and not much of a sailor, and that the captain was exceedingly dissatisfied with him.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

are no means of

In what relation the Apology of Plato stands to the real defence of Socrates, there are no means of determining.
— from Apology by Plato

and noble manner of

But I felt that writing for bread would soon have extinguished my genius, and destroyed my talents, which were less in my pen than in my heart, and solely proceeded from an elevated and noble manner of thinking, by which alone they could be cherished and preserved.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

am not master of

"No more he could, Phil," rejoined Zed; "but, then, if the land belonged to every body,—in such a way that nobody could say an acre belonged to him, only,—why, how would the land be ploughed and the grain sown,—for you know the old saying, Phil, 'What's every body's business is nobody's business?'" "My godmother's grandfather used to say that people ought to join in companies to do it," replied Phil: "it's a subject I am not master of to the extent he was, by all account; but I feel sure of one thing, Zed,—that the world could not have been much worse divided than it is at present, since the rich have so much land among them, and the poor have none."
— from Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume 1 (of 2) by Thomas Cooper

and never missed one

"It's lucky I learned to play base-ball when I was young," he remarked, "for I caught all those heads easily, and never missed one.
— from The Road to Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

against Northern men or

This is a delicate and sensitive point in Southern feeling; and of late years it has always been touched, and generally with effect, whenever the object has been to unite the whole South against Northern men or Northern measures.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

and not miss one

“Try and not miss one word of what I am saying,” remarked he, bending his keen glance upon Paul; then, turning to Catenac, he continued, “Can you persuade the Duke de Champdoce and Perpignan to start for Vendome on Saturday?”
— from The Champdoce Mystery by Emile Gaboriau

authority not merely on

How widely different from the Jewish theocracy was it to see the Father of the country made the highest authority not merely on practical questions of Church government but even on differences concerning faith?
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

and no machinery of

I do not think it would require many criminal attempts of this nature to obtain a sentence from a Divine justice which no hypocrisy of words or deeds and no machinery of human power can deceive.
— from My Own Affairs by Princess of Belgium Louise

a necessary matter o

thar hain't no use in upsettin' women folks over a necessary matter o' this sort.' Looky' here, Nelson, old pard, some'n has got to be done, an' it's got to be done in a damn big hurry.”
— from Pole Baker: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

and not much of

He was some sixteen years old, badly stove forward by hard riding, and not much of a horse anyway.
— from Camp and Trail by Stewart Edward White

are no mountains or

If there are no mountains or romantic scenery round Kells, it has the advantage of being situated in the midst of the most generally fertile of Irish counties.
— from Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland Being a Tourist's Guide to Its Most Beautiful Scenery & an Archæologist's Manual for Its Most Interesting Ruins by Thomas O’Neill Russell

a new miracle of

You must combine the Parthenon with Salisbury, which is virtually a new miracle of architecture.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages by John Lord

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