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a reasonable fee for
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— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

and rage flashed from
He was interrupted by a groan, which seemed to rise from underneath the chamber they were in; and, as he threw a glance round it, impatience and rage flashed from his eyes, yet something like a shade of fear passed over his countenance.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

any reason for feeling
It is music, however, more than anything else that shows us what past-masters we are in the rapid and subtle divination of feelings and sympathy; for even if music is only the imitation of an imitation of feelings, nevertheless, despite its distance and vagueness, it often enables us to participate in those feelings, so that we become sad without any reason for feeling so, like the fools that we are, merely because we hear certain sounds and rhythms that somehow or other remind us of the intonation and the movements, or perhaps even only of the behaviour, of sorrowful people.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

also result frequently from
Fires also result frequently from explosions of gas or gunpowder.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

American Review for February
Listen to this high official of the insular government, who writes in the North American Review for February, 1912: The somewhat blatant note with which we at the beginning proclaimed our altruistic purposes in the Philippines [ 354 ] has died away into a whisper .
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

As rain falls from
Thou groan'st with riches, thy wealth clothes thee as a swathing-garment, Thou laughest loud with ache of great possessions, A myriad-twining life like interlacing vines binds all thy vast demesne, As some huge ship freighted to water's edge thou ridest into port, As rain falls from the heaven and vapors rise from earth, so have the precious values fallen upon thee and risen out of thee; Thou envy of the globe!
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

American Review for February
The rest of the island was held not by the Spanish but by the Filipinos,” said General Anderson, in the North American Review for February, 1900.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

a reasonable fee for
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— from The Daffodil Fields by John Masefield

and rifles for fresh
After quitting Mangu for the north, we were destined to be absolutely cut off from the outer world for a while, and we relied almost altogether on our guns and rifles for fresh meat for the pot.
— from A Camera Actress in the Wilds of Togoland The adventures, observations & experiences of a cinematograph actress in West African forests whilst collecting films depicting native life and when posing as the white woman in Anglo-African cinematograph dramas by Meg Gehrts

at robins flying from
In this each had twenty chances at robins, flying from a box at a distance of thirty yards.
— from The Cave by the Beech Fork: A Story of Kentucky—1815 by Henry S. (Henry Stanislaus) Spalding

A rustling followed from
A rustling followed from the gallery, then a sneeze.
— from Piccadilly Jim by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

any room for Fisher
There’s never any room for Fisher in the car,” said Jim Stetson, “and he has to stick to his old bike.”
— from The Speedwell Boys and Their Racing Auto; Or, A Run for the Golden Cup by Roy Rockwood


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