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and perforce I stuck

But Moreau and Montgomery stood calmly enough; and, perforce, I stuck beside them.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

and published in several

Local versions will be printed and published in several countries through joint venture partners.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

and psychology is succeeding

A systematic prosecution of the various branches of social science, especially political economy, sociology, anthropology, and psychology, is succeeding in explaining many things; but history must always remain, from the standpoint of the astronomer, physicist, or chemist, a highly inexact and fragmentary body of knowledge....
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

and place I shall

I did all I could, and four months afterwards Gaetan simplified matters by a fraudulent bankruptcy, which obliged him to leave France: in due time and place, I shall have something more to say about him.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

any place I should

She was as heartily rejoiced at the apparent easiness of my fortune, and gave me to know that she, as yet, had no habitation that she could properly call her own; but would wait on me at any place I should please to appoint.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

and place in security

We might say that, just as in commerce the merchant cannot set apart and place in security gains from one single transaction by itself, so in War a single advantage cannot be separated from the result of the whole.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

and plundered in South

When he came to Norway he learnt that Earl Hakon was in Throndhjem; therefore he steered northwards around Stad, and plundered in South More.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

a people is secure

I therefore do not maintain, I repeat, that a people is secure from revolutions simply because conditions are equal in the community; but I think that, whatever the institutions of such a people may be, great revolutions will always be far less violent and less frequent than is supposed; and I can easily discern a state of polity, which, when combined with the principle of equality, would render society more stationary than it has ever been in our western apart of the world.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

at present it seems

In subsequent chapters [96] I shall carefully discuss these reasons: at present it seems sufficient to point to the wide acceptance of the principle that it is reasonable for a man to act in the manner most conducive to his own happiness.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

and pressing it softly

“I trust I shall,” I answered with heartfelt earnestness, taking her small hand and pressing it softly; “for I love you, Ella.”
— from Whoso Findeth a Wife by William Le Queux

and pretty in spite

Her face remained charming and pretty in spite of the tears that had reddened her eyelids and impaired the freshness of her cheeks.
— from The Teeth of the Tiger by Maurice Leblanc

advanced progress if she

She has some letters from him, which may probably give light as to his more advanced progress, if she will let us see them, which I suppose she will[346].
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by James Boswell

and propellers increased somewhat

No doubt the rotational speed of the engine and propellers increased somewhat with the forward velocity of the airplane so that unless the power-rpm curve of the engine was flat, the actual horsepower utilized was probably a small amount greater than Orville's figures.
— from The Wright Brothers' Engines and Their Design by Leonard S. Hobbs

a poor indigent scholar

‘Once I myself was a poor indigent scholar, Now I ride mounted in my four-horse chariot, And all my fellow-villagers exclaim with surprise.’
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams

a philosopher in such

Cephas looked sharply after them, but said nothing; he was like a philosopher in such a fury of research and experiment that for the time he heeded thoroughly nothing else.
— from Pembroke: A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

and placed it so

I took a chair for myself, and placed it so that I might be opposite to him when he resumed his seat.
— from Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins

and presently I see

"Well, Jo, I press my head into the pillow, and say, 'I will see rings,' and presently I see a little ball, black, perhaps, and it grows and grows into rings--like what you see when you throw a stone in the water--larger, and larger, all the different colors of the rainbow; and then, when they have grown so large as to appear to have lost themselves in space--just like the rings in the water, Jo--another little ball shapes itself in the dark, and gradually becomes visible, and then the rings come and grow and disappear as the others did.
— from Joshua Marvel by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

ALUMINIUM POWDER IN SHELLS

PURE GOLD AND ALUMINIUM POWDER IN SHELLS, HALF SHELLS, OR CAKES, LIKE WATER COLOURS.
— from Elementary Instruction in the Art of Illuminating and Missal Painting on Vellum A Guide to Modern Illuminators by D. (David) Laurent de Lara

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