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by a really efficient education

This state of affairs can only be rectified by a really efficient education of youth.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

But are real equals ever

But are real equals ever unequal?
— from Phaedo by Plato

before a railroad engine entered

It was thirty-two days before a railroad engine entered Cape Vincent from the time that the last one left it.
— from The Modern Railroad by Edward Hungerford

by a remarkable expression employed

185 This faculty seems to be described by a remarkable expression employed by Thucydides in his character of Themistocles, of which the following is given as a close translation: “By a species of sagacity peculiarly his own, for which he was in no degree indebted either to early education or after study, he was supereminently happy in forming a prompt judgment in matters that admitted but little time for deliberation; at the same time that he far surpassed all in his deductions of the future from the past , or was the best guesser of the future from the past.”
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

birds and reptiles everywhere eaten

For prey there was great variety of birds and reptiles (everywhere eaten by savages) and fishes; but we are most concerned with the mammalia, which he may be supposed to have pursued afoot.
— from The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions by Carveth Read

be all right enough ef

“Aunt Sally said she thought the minister ought to call and inquire why she didn't come to meetin', and who she was, and all about her: 'cause, you see, she said it might be all right enough ef folks only know'd jest how things was; but ef they didn't, why, folks will talk.”
— from Oldtown Fireside Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe

botanist and returned every evening

“I’ve had the pleasure of the acquaintance of two specimens of that class,” said he, “one was in the Catskill Mountains; she had a geological fad, and went out every morning with a little hammer, to hammer among the rocks all day; the other was a botanist, and returned every evening about covered with plants which she had pulled up, root and branch; I wonder which of them this one will resemble.”
— from The Award of Justice; Or, Told in the Rockies: A Pen Picture of the West by A. Maynard (Anna Maynard) Barbour

but at risk enough even

[Pg 91] saved your miserable life, I won't say at the risk of our own, but at risk enough even if you had not recognized us.
— from Stingaree by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

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