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are really useful and necessary are

And well might Pendleton sing, if this were true; but who does not know how many things which are really useful and necessary, are not [Pg 309] always pleasant to those who have no immediate interest in them?
— from Lancashire Sketches Third Edition by Edwin Waugh

and rolled up as nice as

'They came into the little pasture last night, killed the old four-year-old, and a lamb, dragged them out into the bushes, and there we found their pelts taken off and rolled up, as nice as a butcher could do it.' "'Oh, you ought to have shut them up, Jed,' said grandmother.
— from Lost in the Cañon The Story of Sam Willett's Adventures on the Great Colorado of the West by A. R. (Alfred Rochefort) Calhoun

also react upon a neighbouring and

Others, like fear, cold, vexation, also react upon a neighbouring and intricate centre in the genital system.
— from Decadence, and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas by Remy de Gourmont

a Rising up and not a

§ 5. Resurrection, and its real Meaning, as a Rising up, and not a Rising again.
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

a Rising up and not a

He who looks at the things unseen and eternal, partakes of their eternal nature, and though his outward human nature perishes, his inward spiritual nature is renewed day by day. § 5. Resurrection, and its real Meaning, as a Rising up, and not a Rising again.
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

all redd up as neat as

The kitchen was all "redd up," as neat as wax; everything in its place; and at the table stood Mrs. Purcell with her sleeves rolled up to her elbows and her arms in a great pan, hard at work kneading bread.
— from The Letter of Credit by Susan Warner

And rising up all naked as

Then he remembered all he once had heard But understood not touching Calvary; And rising up, all naked as he was, He plucked the stout stem of a bramble-bush To be his palmer's staff, and with a rag That once had been the blanket of a mule Girded his loins, and stalked into the wild.
— from A Hermit of Carmel, and Other Poems by George Santayana

am rather upset and nervous after

Of course it was a little joke—I saw that soon enough; I'd have seen it at once, only I am rather upset and nervous after that German experience."
— from The Adventures of a Modest Man by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

and registered under assumed names at

After landing in an open field close to the city, they tramped into the suburbs and registered under assumed names at a small hotel.
— from The Galloping Ghost A Mystery Story for Boys by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

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