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and putting him in print

While I am stating particular cases, I might as well immortalize another of my neighbors, by calling him by name, and putting him in print.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

and puts himself in posture

And thus I set my foot on's neck'; even then The princely blood flows in his cheek, he sweats, Strains his young nerves, and puts himself in posture That acts my words.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

and peace here in part

And well I wot when these two are wisely and truly seen, we shall get rest and peace here in part, and the fulness of the bliss of Heaven, by His plenteous grace.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

and put him in prison

Wherefore the Pope sent after him and put him in prison.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

answered Panurge he is properly

Yes, truly, answered Panurge, he is properly and totally a fool, a Pantagruel.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

a poet he is privileged

The poet asks only of the reader, what, as a poet, he is privileged to ask: namely, that sort of negative faith in the existence of such a being, which we willingly give to productions professedly ideal, and a disposition to the same state of feeling, as that with which we contemplate the idealized figures of the Apollo Belvidere, and the Farnese Hercules.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

and placing himself in positions

The President, recovering himself, begins that very night—sternly, rapidly sets about the task of reorganizing his forces, and placing himself in positions for future and surer work.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

a pig he is put

As a pig he is put in the ground at sowing-time, and as a pig he reappears amongst the ripe corn at harvest.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

and prayed him if possible

The old lady was as impatient of doctors as of divines; pretending that my wife was ailing, and that it was more convenient for our good Doctor Heberden to visit her in Clarges Street than to travel all the way to our Lambeth lodgings, we got Dr. H. to see Theo at our aunt's house, and prayed him if possible to offer his advice to the Baroness: we made Mrs. Brett, her woman, describe her ailments, and the doctor confirmed our opinion that they were most serious, and might speedily end.
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

agricultural processing handicrafts Industrial production

Budget: revenues: $1 billion expenditures: $900 million, including capital expenditures of $185 million (1996) Industries: tourism, pearls, agricultural processing, handicrafts Industrial production growth rate: NA% Electricity - production: 360 million kWh (1998) Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 59.72% hydro: 40.28% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1998) Electricity - consumption: 335 million kWh (1998) Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998) Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1998) Agriculture - products: coconuts, vanilla, vegetables, fruits; poultry, beef, dairy products Exports: $212 million (f.o.b., 1996) Exports - commodities: cultured pearls 50%, coconut products, mother-of-pearl, vanilla, shark meat (1997)
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

a physician he is prodigiously

The man who on hearing a diplomate he has saved ask, "How is the Emperor?" could say, "The courtier is alive; the man will follow!"—that man is not merely a surgeon or a physician, he is prodigiously witty also.
— from The Atheist's Mass by Honoré de Balzac

and place him in perpetual

I ordered that he should be imprisoned until I could enquire into his proceedings, and after ascertaining the truth I ordered first that they should cut out his tongue and place him in perpetual confinement, and that he should eat his food with dog-keepers and outcasts.
— from The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 1 of 2) by Emperor of Hindustan Jahangir

and persuade her if possible

After the warning for the meeting had been read, resolutions were introduced in which were set forth the disgrace and damage that would be brought upon the town if a school for colored girls should be set up there, protesting emphatically against the impending evil, and appointing the civil authority and select-men a committee to wait upon 'the person contemplating the establishment of said school, and persuade her, if possible, to abandon the project.'
— from History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams

At present however it passed

At present, however, it passed without censure, as the effect of inattention, rather than a design to encroach upon the privileges of the house.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

and pulling him into place

Someone grabbed his leg, and, pulling him into place, thrust him up over the shoulders of the tall Royal in front.
— from The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

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