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and protect if they are really to

Now that is the spirit touching color which the schools must recover and protect if they are really to give the children any imaginative appetite or pleasure in the thing.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

and plunged into the Atlantic rather than

“Perhaps he preferred death to dishonor, and plunged into the Atlantic rather than be arrested.”
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

and persisted in the accusation relative to

in the most indignant manner, and persisted in the accusation relative to the base sovereign.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

as pioneers in the art rather than

In the remote wilds of Kentucky, still harried by the Indians, Hart was born in 1810; and Clevenger, Crawford, and Mills followed in 1812, 1813, and 1815—all artists of note, even if of unequal merits, and important as pioneers in the art rather than the creators of a great school of sculpture.
— from Art in America: A Critical and Historial Sketch by S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler) Benjamin

and pours Is there any reason The

If it drizzles and pours, Is there any reason The weather indoors Should be dull, like the season?
— from Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 07, February 15, 1914 by Various

afterwards published in the Annual Report the

In the admonitory address from which the above quotation is made, and which was afterwards published in the Annual Report, the position of a letter-carrier is distinctly set forth.
— from The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Hill, Rowland, Sir

and Pandarus in the AEneid ready to

The door of the court-yard was shut; and it was only after cautious challenge that one of its leaves was opened by two domestics, both strong Highlanders, and both under arms, like Bitias and Pandarus in the AEneid, ready to defend the entrance if aught hostile had ventured an intrusion.
— from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott

and passed into the adjoining room to

Aurora Lane arose and passed into the adjoining room to answer it.
— from The Broken Gate: A Novel by Emerson Hough

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