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a Norwegian song that

" Then her youngest sister whispered to the old goblin, "That is only because she has heard, in a Norwegian song, that when the world shall decay, the cliffs of Norway will remain standing like monuments; and she wants to get there, that she may be safe; for she is so afraid of sinking.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

and not subjection to

“They will say that it is free-love, individual freedom; but freedom means self-control and not subjection to passion.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

are not surprised that

On the one hand we are not surprised that the child fears all strange persons, new situations and objects, and we explain this reaction very easily by his weakness and ignorance.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

and not seeing the

The night was unusually bright, and we expected to find the gunboat within a mile or so; but, after pulling down the river fully three miles, and not seeing the gunboat, I began to think she had turned and gone back to the sound; but we kept on, following the bends of the river, and about six miles below McAllister we saw her light, and soon were hailed by the vessel at anchor.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

are not seen to

After these works Pietro went to Tuscany, in order to see the works of the other disciples of his master Giotto and those of Giotto himself; and with this occasion he painted many figures in S. Marco in Florence, which are not seen to-day, the church having been whitewashed, except the Annunciation, which stands covered beside the principal door of the church.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

and nonsense spoke the

“Stuff and nonsense!” spoke the carrier; “come along with me, and I’ll soon put that right.”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

and now said The

" While Sir Francis was speaking, the guide shook his head several times, and now said: "The sacrifice which will take place to-morrow at dawn is not a voluntary one.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

am not sure that

I am not sure that I believe in the derivation; I have heard the disgraceful suggestion that “educator,” if applied to a Roman schoolmaster, did not mean leading our young functions into freedom; but only meant taking out little boys for a walk.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

And now seeing that

And now, seeing that the mice were settling down to their books in good earnest, I turned my attention to the nursery, where I rightly judged that I should find the three younger mice.
— from Five Mice in a Mouse-trap, by the Man in the Moon. by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

am not sure that

Number Seven demurred to this, and I am not sure that he is wrong in so doing.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

at night so that

After this the sister lived up in the tree, and the crows brought her food every day and rested around her in the branches at night, so that no harm should come to her.
— from Tales of Folk and Fairies by Katharine Pyle

and never stopping to

Happening to stroll into the nursery at that moment, he smelt the cakes, saw them unguarded on the low table, and never stopping to think of consequences, swallowed all six at one mouthful.
— from Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

a necessary supplement to

To ascertain how this is brought [119] about, forms a necessary supplement to the investigations just concluded.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

attacked nor submit them

I do not feel that I have the courage to say that if the epigastric region is in good order, everything else is in a like condition—— “We cannot trace,” he went on more mildly, “to one physical cause the serious disturbances that supervene in this or that subject which has been dangerously attacked, nor submit them to a uniform treatment.
— from The Magic Skin by Honoré de Balzac

are now summoned to

The entire population of the valley are now summoned to the outskirts of the sacred enclosure, and a general invitation extended to all to approach and join the chiefs and magicians in the rite they are about to perform; it being understood, however, that no man, under penalty of death, shall venture to participate who has left a single wrong unrevenged or committed any unmanly deed, and no woman who has given birth to a child since the preceding full moon.
— from Haw-Ho-Noo; Or, Records of a Tourist by Charles Lanman

am not sure that

I have given up the newspapers for the present: am not sure that I shall take to them again.
— from The Mysteries of Heron Dyke: A Novel of Incident. Volume 3 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

and nobody seems to

The fantastic story, and the wonders with which it was bespread, seem to have absorbed the attention of writers and hearers; and nobody seems to have thought of any more.
— from The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury

a Norman scribe to

[566] We need not resort to any fanciful British origins of the name Peneverdant, as it is clearly the effort of a Norman scribe to write down the unpronounceable English name Penwortham.
— from The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles. by Ella S. Armitage

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