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a round ball emitting light and

Here, then, was the startling revelation that our Sun was simply a star, and that the stars represented a "universe of Suns," and, if we 10 could get near any one star of the millions that sparkle in the heavens telescopically, we should see it as a round ball emitting light and heat.
— from Mars and Its Mystery by Edward Sylvester Morse

and rather bent entered like a

The chapel was dim, and always at the time of the offices, a young sacristan-sister, tall and pale, and rather bent, entered like a shadow, and each time that she passed before the altar she fell on one knee and bowed her head profoundly.
— from En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

above ridicule but everybody laughed at

Power commonly keeps above ridicule, but everybody laughed at the Cardinal because of his silly sayings and doings, which those in his position are seldom guilty of.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

and Rundolph Bunner Esq late a

They were read by different gentlemen; among them, I think, was General John P. Van Ness, of Washington city, and Rundolph Bunner, Esq., late a member of Congress from this state, who, I have no doubt, can and would, if asked, detail their contents.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

and repudiated by every Latin American

But this over-lordship, this [Pg 275] placing of the Latin Republics in a position of tutelage to the great Republic of the north, is denounced and repudiated by every Latin American public man.
— from The Amazing Argentine: A New Land of Enterprise by John Foster Fraser

awful race between ebbing life and

Robbie came back with a few things that we hoped would help a little, and then we settled down to watch in silence the awful race between ebbing life and coming help.
— from The Outspan: Tales of South Africa by Percy Fitzpatrick

any relation between English literature and

Nine years later, Henry Arthur Jones, in the preface to his printed play, “Saints and Sinners,” denied that there was any relation between English literature and the modern English drama.
— from The Connecticut Wits, and Other Essays by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

and repelled by external laws and

Hence he must be restrained and repelled by external laws and material books, with the sword and by force.
— from Epistle Sermons, Vol. 2: Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Martin Luther

are regulated by exact laws and

Science shows us that storms are regulated by exact laws, and it is only through our ignorance and blindness that we cannot tell whence they come, and whither they go.
— from A Voyage round the World A book for boys by William Henry Giles Kingston

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