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are permanently lost or

Consequently many words are permanently lost or revived with modified or new meanings.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

any perceptible lessening of

The coins were but the measure of value, and like a pair of scales and weights, may be used over and over again without any perceptible lessening of their worth.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

a prodigious lot of

There does seem to be a prodigious lot of islands this year; the map of this region is freckled and fly-specked all over with them.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

at present less ordinary

I receive health with open arms, free, full, and entire, and by so much the more whet my appetite to enjoy it, by how much it is at present less ordinary and more rare; so far am I from troubling its repose and sweetness with the bitterness of a new and constrained manner of living.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

a pure love of

278 Charcoal is not on the whole the medium an artist with a pure love of form selects, but rather that of the painter, who uses it when his brushes and paints are not handy.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

avenues par lesquelles on

Il est vrai que les avenues par lesquelles on y accédait avaient conservé leur aspect seigneurial, avec leurs quadruples rangées de vieux hêtres dont les vastes frondaisons se miraient dans de magnifiques étangs.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

and peacefulness lay over

A sacred calm and peacefulness lay over the town and the wide suburbs of Dresden, which were visible from my point of vantage.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

and pressed loans on

He bought presents for everyone, overhauled his room, wrote out resolutions, marshalled his books up and down their shelves, pored upon all kinds of price lists, drew up a form of commonwealth for the household by which every member of it held some office, opened a loan bank for his family and pressed loans on willing borrowers so that he might have the pleasure of making out receipts and reckoning the interests on the sums lent.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

A P Low of

In a number of instances they were verified by myself, but I have taken the liberty, when doubt or conflicting statements existed, of referring to the works of Mr. A. P. Low of the Canadian Geological Society and Mr. Lucien M. Turner of the Bureau of Ethnology at Washington, to set myself right.
— from The Long Labrador Trail by Dillon Wallace

and profane literature of

It introduces its pretended author, Bishop Turpin, in this manner: "Turpin, Archbishop of Rheims, the friend and secretary of Charles the Great, excellently skilled in sacred and profane literature, of a genius equally adapted to prose and verse, the advocate of the poor, beloved of God in his life and conversation, who often fought the Saracens, hand to hand, by the Emperor's side, he relates the acts of Charles the Great in one book, and flourished under Charles and his son Louis, to the year of our Lord eight hundred and thirty.
— from Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch

and persuasive language of

In common with those pieces which we have already given the reader, there is no effort at grandeur in the piece; the beauty and propriety of the poem is undisguised by metaphor, being put down in the tender and persuasive language of a Christian heart, pleading for the good of man, and the honor of its Maker.
— from Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou by Maturin Murray Ballou

a perfect labyrinth of

Now this sentence was a perfect labyrinth of mystery to Dolly; for she did not know what Christmas was, she did not know what the chancel was, she never saw anything dressed with pine, and she was wholly in the dark what it was all about; and yet her bosom heaved, her breath grew short, her color came and went, and she trembled with excitement.
— from Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives by Harriet Beecher Stowe

a possible list of

For instance—[Here follows a plan and a possible list of cities to be visited.
— from Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) by Mark Twain

a personal letter of

But his eloquence was vain, and the war was continued, in spite of a personal letter of expostulation to the Doge.
— from Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters A Selection from His Correspondence with Boccaccio and Other Friends, Designed to Illustrate the Beginnings of the Renaissance by Francesco Petrarca

and permanent land on

Some authorities, while recognising the great changes which have occurred in the relative position of land and sea during those periods of which geologists have direct information, suppose that the changes took place to a large degree in certain 'critical areas' bordering the more stable areas of permanent ocean on the one side and permanent land on the other.
— from The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology by J. E. (John Edward) Marr

a peculiar laxity of

When a peculiar laxity of the apparatus about the joint exists, whether as a cause of luxation or not, the support of a well-made knee-cap is required.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

a philosopher less on

There was a philosopher less on earth, and a saint more in heaven.
— from Michael Faraday Third Edition, with Portrait by J. H. (John Hall) Gladstone

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