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and relapse into old loves and

We "good Europeans," we also have hours when we allow ourselves a warm-hearted patriotism, a plunge and relapse into old loves and narrow views—I have just given an example of it—hours of national excitement, of patriotic anguish, and all other sorts of old-fashioned floods of sentiment.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

are round in others like a

They have each of them a double root within, some of them are round, in others like a hand; these roots alter every year by course, when the one rises and waxes full, the other waxes lank, and perishes.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

a rich inheritance of lands a

That generous prince will grant you a rich inheritance of lands, a place in the senate, and the dignity of patrician: such are his gracious intentions, and you may depend with full assurance on the word of Belisarius.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

a rift in our lives and

A few minutes before, perhaps, we were sad and discouraged, when, suddenly, the flashlight of a potent personality of this kind has opened a rift in our lives and revealed to us hidden capabilities.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

a royal invitation O Lal and

"Each has received a royal invitation, O Lal, and the Royal personages will all be pleased to attend."
— from The Tale of Lal A Fantasy by Raymond Paton

as regards its own life and

If Uruguay is a small country in point of area, being about the size of the British Isles, which is not large in comparison with the vast areas of territory of her neighbours on the Continent, the Republic contains much that is important, both as regards its own life and development and its relations with foreign lands.
— from Spanish America, Its Romance, Reality and Future, Vol. 2 (of 2) by C. Reginald (Charles Reginald) Enock

as reflected in occipitonasal length and

N Talpa de Allendé, the skull, as reflected in occipitonasal length and zygomatic breadth relative to length of body, is larger than in other specimens here assigned to allex .
— from Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Robert L. (Robert Lewis) Packard

a rival institution of learning as

All the academy boys assembled for the affair, and with them were a number of folks from the town, and also some students from the Rockville Military Academy, a rival institution of learning, as my old readers already know.
— from Dave Porter in the South Seas; or, The Strange Cruise of the Stormy Petrel by Edward Stratemeyer

and realize in outward life a

If we must, this year, live out the errors that we made last year, there is an encouragement rather than a penalty in the fact, as this truth argues that if we now enter on a loftier plane and realize in outward life a nobler experience, we shall, next year, or in some future time, find ourselves entirely free from the weight of the errors we have [Pg 70] abandoned, the mistakes we have learned not to make, and
— from The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting

After remaining in our lines and

After remaining in our lines and on constant military duty for several days and nights, on the 1 st of November Gen. Washington retired with his army to the heights in the neighborhood of Northcastle.
— from The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long island and the loss of New York, with a review of events to the close of the year by Henry Phelps Johnston

and retained it over long and

Sometimes he caught her hand and retained it over long; and once, when he kissed it, there was no rebuke.
— from The Puppet Crown by Harold MacGrath

attracting renewed interest of late and

" The story of this remarkable black woman has been attracting renewed interest of late, and I have often been asked to publish another edition of the book, and to add some interesting and amusing incidents which I have related to my friends.
— from Harriet, the Moses of Her People by Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins) Bradford

and read it out like a

"Do you think Essec Powell would write his sermon out like a clergyman and read it out like a book?
— from By Berwen Banks by Allen Raine

and religious instruction of Lucía although

Happily, Father Urtazu sowed among so many weeds a few grains of wheat, and the moral and religious instruction of Lucía, although limited, was as correct and solid as her school studies were futile.
— from A Wedding Trip by Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de

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