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a period of deep emotion there is
After a period of deep emotion, there is always a period of repose; having safely passed the shirts, the travellers rode on two or three leagues peacefully enough.
— from The War of Women, Volume 1 by Alexandre Dumas

and practice of Domestic Economy to its
A second method of promoting the same object, is, to raise the science and practice of Domestic Economy to its appropriate place, as a regular study in female seminaries.
— from A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Catharine Esther Beecher

another particle of direct evidence that it
There is not, it must be admitted, another particle of direct evidence that it was so, though this in itself is not to be despised, but there are circumstances not a few that point in the same direction.
— from Rembrandt van Rijn by Malcolm Bell

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