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body and arms into numerous graceful

Dancing succeeded, and one or two young women were the performers; like the Hindostanee Nautch, it merely consisted in throwing the body and arms into numerous graceful and rather voluptuous postures; at the same time advancing slowly, with a short steady step, and occasionally changing it for a more lively figure.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827 by Various

boy and am I not going

“Sure, boy, and am I not going to tell you how he got the new name of him?”
— from Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by George MacDonald

began again and is now going

But we remember, it may be, that this deadly season passed away: the rain fell once more, and the tender dew, and the quickening sun shone brightly: our spiritual growth began again, and is now going on healthily; we have not always been receiving the Holy Ghost since we believed, but we are receiving him now.
— from The Christian Life: Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps by Thomas Arnold

be accepted and is now generally

The car-load must therefore be accepted and is now generally accepted by the best railroad men as the unit of wholesale shipments, and any discrimination made in favor of large wholesale shippers is arbitrary and unjust.
— from The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee

But an author is no good

But an author is no good till he has thrown his critics out of window.'
— from Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

book and although it neither gives

"This is an excellent and amusing book; and although it neither gives, nor pretends to give, lessons in strategy, or a true history of the great operations of our armies, we hold it to be a very instructive work.
— from Random Shots from a Rifleman by J. (John) Kincaid

bark and although it never grows

It is an evergreen tree, with a dark brown, fibrous bark; and although it never grows to any great height—seldom exceeding fifty feet, it often has a girth of from twenty to thirty feet, and reaches an age of fifteen hundred or two thousand years.
— from Field and Woodland Plants by William S. Furneaux

bow and arrow is not genuine

Even your vaunted skill with bow and arrow is not genuine.
— from The Stories of El Dorado by Frona Eunice Wait

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