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amount to the latitude EQ equal
Then add this amount to the latitude EQ, equal the latitude EY.
— from Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Thomas Bassnett

and they too like everything else
They were about four feet apart, fastened to thick pieces of timber, and they, too, like everything else, ran on and on, and he mounted and rode along them much puzzled.
— from The Heart of the Hills by Fox, John, Jr.

attached to the lower exterior edge
In an exactly similar manner, in this and other cirripedes, the membrane of the peduncle, at the top, is continuous with that coating the valves, and is attached to the lower exterior edge of the last-formed layer of shell.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin

and to the long eternities ere
The themes begin with Abraham, rather than with Christ; but they go back to Adam, and to the long "eternities" ere this world was.
— from The Women of Mormondom by Edward W. (Edward William) Tullidge

and that temperament like everything else
Besides, it is a temperament peculiarly sensitive, or generous, or enjoying, which at the beginning impels these to their special pursuits; and that temperament, like everything else in the world, strengthens with use, and grows with what it feeds on.
— from Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Alexander Smith

and thereafter takes life easy except
He marries, sets his wives to hoe the mealies and milk the cows, and thereafter takes life easy, except when he takes a fancy to hunt elephants, or to go to war for pastime.
— from Six Months at the Cape by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

And the two ladies embraced each
And the two ladies embraced each other with the greatest effusion, like two friends united after a misunderstanding.
— from The Honor of the Name by Emile Gaboriau

admit that the laws enforcing eligibility
Mr. Pitt had, in his time, considered it necessary to admit, that the laws enforcing eligibility upon Catholics ought to be reviewed, for the purposes of modification; and, under the repeated assurances of different eminent statesmen, a Roman Catholic influence had undoubtedly grown up in Ireland, which it was high time to satisfy by a reasonable change of policy.
— from Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century by Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of


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