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and so have escaped their

Ever since then I have taken care not to take off my hat or veil, and so have escaped their suspicions.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

and surround her even there

But now in this hateful age of ours not one is safe, not though some new labyrinth like that of Crete conceal and surround her; even there the pestilence of gallantry will make its way to them through chinks or on the air by the zeal of its accursed importunity, and, despite of all seclusion, lead them to ruin.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

as she had eyed the

‘I suppose,’ said my aunt, eyeing me as narrowly as she had eyed the needle in threading it, ‘you think Mr. Dick a short name, eh?’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

and such he endeavored to

In brief, he was a pattern of godliness and virtue, and such he endeavored to make men wherever he came.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

a slave he entered the

As a slave he entered the Imperial palace, rendered himself useful to his master's passions, and rapidly ascended to the most exalted station which a subject could enjoy.
— 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

and sound he embraced them

And seeing them all safe and sound, he embraced them lovingly, and asked what was become of the monk.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

as she had energy to

With less and less of hope or strength, as they went on, but with an undiminished resolution not to betray by any word or sigh her sinking state, so long as she had energy to move, the child, throughout the remainder of that hard day, compelled herself to proceed: not even stopping to rest as frequently as usual, to compensate in some measure for the tardy pace at which she was obliged to walk.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

and should have expected to

I would have trusted my life and my fortune in the hands of any one of these people; and certainly had I wished for a favor or act of sacrifice, I would have gone to them all, in turn, before I should have applied to one of my own countrymen on the coast, and should have expected to have seen it done, before my own countrymen had got half through counting the cost.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

ages should have employed themselves

I must also confess that, though all the learned, for several ages, should have employed themselves in fruitless search upon any subject, it may still, perhaps, be rash to conclude positively that the subject must, therefore, pass all human comprehension.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

As she herself extends the

When he speaks of his native county, Warwickshire, he has the following lines; Upon the mid-lands now, th' industrious Muse doth fall, That shire which we the heart of England well may call, As she herself extends the midst (which is decreed) Betwixt St. Michael's Mount, and Berwick bordering Tweed, Brave Warwick, that abroad so long advanc'd her Bear, By her illustrious Earls, renowned every where, Above her neighbr'ing shires which always bore her head.
— from The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. by Theophilus Cibber

and spurred had entered the

Some soldier bearing a marshal's baton back from war, some hero that had liberated an empire or stolen a republic for himself, some prince of literature or satrap of song, someone, in fact, who, booted and spurred, had entered the Temple of Fame, and claimed the dome as his.
— from The Truth About Tristrem Varick: A Novel by Edgar Saltus

Alabaster so he endeavours to

"—The querist did not perceive that the Roxana of Alexander was an error for the Roxana of Alabaster —so he endeavours to draw off the attention of his readers from this proof of critical obtuseness by a common-place witticism.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 92, August 2, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

and shut her eyes tightly

Indiana made a little grimace and shut her eyes tightly.
— from Her Lord and Master by Martha Morton

as some have endeavoured to

The act which brought him to his death was the result of long years of brooding over Ireland and her destiny; it was not a sudden and new impulse as some have endeavoured to prove.
— from Some Poems of Roger Casement by Roger Casement

as Sid had expected the

Then, just as Sid had expected, the instructor endeavored to borrow a dress-suit from one of the students.
— from The Rival Pitchers: A Story of College Baseball by Lester Chadwick

and screwing her eyes tight

She leaned back in her chair and, screwing her eyes tight, began the calculation.
— from Dialstone Lane, Complete by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

and such huge elm trees

What beautiful green fields; and such huge elm trees; and orchards; and flowers in the cottage gardens!
— from Madam How and Lady Why; Or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children by Charles Kingsley

a situation had existed to

Nevertheless precisely such a situation had existed to-day.
— from The Auto Boys' Quest by James A. (James Andrew) Braden

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