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but a judgement of reflection
Further, neither presupposes a judgement of sense nor a judgement logically determined, but a judgement of reflection.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

But a javelin of rock
But a javelin of rock between his shoulder-plates held him fast while he was bleeding to death from spear thrusts.
— from My Friend Pasquale, and Other Stories by James Selwin Tait

behind a jut of rock
As I fired, the animal gave a loud "whish!" and sped away like the wind, disappearing behind a jut of rock five or six rods farther away; but five feet from that point I found it dead.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

be a journey of recognition
It is to be a journey of recognition, not of protest.
— from The Holy Earth by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey

by a jury of rooks
He evidently credits the story of the Bishop of Carlisle, who thinks he saw a jackdaw being tried by a jury of rooks for some misdemeanor.
— from Ways of Nature by John Burroughs

being a Journal of Researches
Mr. DARWIN'S WORKS A NATURALIST’S VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD; being a Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of Countries visited.
— from Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Fritz Müller

bailiffs and jurats of Romney
On 24th October Pitt attended a meeting of the "surveyors, lords, bailiffs and jurats" of Romney Marsh held at Dymchurch, Generals Sir David Dundas and Moore, and Colonel Brown being also present.
— from William Pitt and the Great War by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

boys as just one remove
As an example of what I mean, I may speak of one household where the girls are gently ruled and delicately brought up by their dead mother’s bridesmaid, who gave up her own one chance of wedded happiness because of her most romantic attachment to her girlhood friend, and who, when father and mother died within a few years of each other, leaving a young and turbulent household to ‘Aunt Mary and Providence,’ came to live among the children, loving them all, but instinctively looking upon the boys as just one remove from wild animals.
— from From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for young householders by J. E. (Jane Ellen) Panton

be a joke on Reggie
The hands held me in an iron grip by the throat and arm, and so suddenly had I been seized that for the first instant I believed it to be a joke on Reggie’s part—for he was fond of horseplay when in jubilant spirits.
— from As We Forgive Them by William Le Queux

be a judge or retract
Paul knew well enough he was a judge, and knew well enough what was his duty to a judge, that he should not be reviled; but he would not acknowledge this priest to be a judge, or retract his threatning against him.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields


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