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a one under the

Many a one under the name of a God has invaded a chaste bed.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

any of us that

Come, Ana! do not look shocked: you know better than any of us that marriage is a mantrap baited with simulated accomplishments and delusive idealizations.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

all of us there

Among the loosely organized complexes in many individuals, and possibly in all of us, there are certain dispositions toward views of life which represent natural inclinations, desires, and modes of activity which, for one reason or another, we tend to suppress or are unable to give full play to.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

are only united together

There are no great men without virtue, and there are no great nations—it may almost be added that there would be no society—without the notion of rights; for what is the condition of a mass of rational and intelligent beings who are only united together by the bond of force?
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

appeared once upon the

Aristophanes, in one of his later comedies (Frogs, 89 foll.), speaks of ‘thousands of tragedy-making prattlers,’ whose attempts at poetry he compares to the chirping of swallows; ‘their garrulity went far beyond Euripides,’—‘they appeared once upon the stage, and there was an end of them.’
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

all of us that

And all of us that know her are waiting to see what her pride will come to, and who is to be the happy man that will succeed in taming a nature so formidable and gaining possession of a beauty so supreme.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

and offering up the

When I looked round upon the storied monuments, the stately hatchments, the cold marble pomp with which grandeur mourned magnificently over departed pride, and turned to this poor widow, bowed down by age and sorrow at the altar of her God, and offering up the prayers and praises of a pious though a broken heart, I felt that this living monument of real grief was worth them all.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

analogous objects under the

God, therefore, stands in no need of general ideas; that is to say, he is never sensible of the necessity of collecting a considerable number of analogous objects under the same form for greater convenience in thinking.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

all of us to

But inasmuch as we ought all of us to take every care not to run into needless peril, so must we take every right and reasonable precaution to keep from ourselves and our homes this just but terrible visitation, which God has doubtless sent for our admonition and chastisement."
— from The Sign of the Red Cross: A Tale of Old London by Evelyn Everett-Green

and often under the

I have always my St. Etienne, and often under the window I see my Etienne's smile, and know well the good God has cared for him, and I need no more.
— from Prisoners of Poverty Abroad by Helen Campbell

apostolical Order under the

He placed his most apostolical Order under the immediate protection of the holy Apostle, whose tomb he visited.
— from The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi by Candide Chalippe

and others under the

One of the causes of the grievous scarcity of labour is believed to have been that nobles and others, under the pretence of husbandry, kept in their pay able-bodied dependants who, rather than eke out a miserable existence on the land, preferred to follow some warlike lord.
— from The Customs of Old England by F. J. (Frederick John) Snell

all of us this

Hunt up and down with its mouth if you touch the cheek Just set down to dinner, and I dined with them, as I intended Little worth of this world, to buy it with so much pain Looks to lie down about two months hence Pit, where the bears are baited Said to die with the cleanest hands that ever any Lord Treasurer Says of wood, that it is an excrescence of the earth Shame such a rogue should give me and all of us this trouble Street ordered to be continued, forty feet broad, from Paul's Think never to see this woman—at least, to have her here more
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 53: May 1667 by Samuel Pepys

and offers us the

Wherefore He comes after us when we have wandered into the wilds of sin; He pleads as it were, with our souls, and offers us the grace to repent.
— from The Shepherd Of My Soul by Charles J. (Charles Jerome) Callan

approved of us that

Further suppose we were conscious that this superior person so far approved of us that we had nothing servilely to fear from him; that he was really our friend, and kind and good to us in particular, as he had occasionally intercourse with us: we must be other creatures than we are, or we could not but feel the same kind of satisfaction and enjoyment (whatever would be the degree of it) from this higher acquaintance and friendship as we feel from common ones, the intercourse being real and the persons equally present in both cases.
— from Human Nature, and Other Sermons by Joseph Butler

and on until the

Once she tastes the fruit that is forbidden, the [Pg 196] rest is days and nights of drifting on and on until the whirlpool of vice swallows her.
— from The Vice Bondage of a Great City; or, the Wickedest City in the World by Robert O. Harland

aggressive only under the

As a devotion to certain objects, this motive of patriotism enters into the sphere of motives of war, but it does so mainly, in our view, as a powerful and highly suggestible energy which becomes aggressive only under the stimulus of threat to its objects.
— from The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History by G. E. (George Everett) Partridge

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