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be a rhinoceros ever since the

Although he has given a strange drawing of the skeleton of the head of a rhinoceros, where the nose and the forehead are very distinctly different, yet, in another drawing, he has figured his rhinoceros bicornis, with a head seemingly all nose, and much liker an ass than any thing we have seen pretended to be a rhinoceros ever since the time of Albert Durer.
— from Select Specimens of Natural History Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Volume 5. by James Bruce

by a repugnancy even supposing that

By no means the discrediting of the history as to the principal fact, by a repugnancy (even supposing that repugnancy not to be resolvable into different modes of computation) in the time of the day in which it is said to have taken place.
— from Evidences of Christianity by William Paley

been annually repeated ever since throughout

Judas appointed the same date for the Feast of Dedication, which has been annually repeated ever since throughout the Jewish world.
— from Deborah: A tale of the times of Judas Maccabaeus by James M. (James Meeker) Ludlow

been a Republican ever sense the

I been a Republican ever sense the days of Abraham Lincoln, but I had an idee this year I was goin' to have fer to leave the old party flat on account o' rumours I hearn that this here Cox was comin' out for liquor.
— from The Old Soak, and Hail And Farewell by Don Marquis

been a Republican ever since the

She had been a Republican ever since the days of Michel of Bourges, and a democrat since the time when, as a little girl, she took the side of her plebeian mother against "the old Countesses."
— from George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings by René Doumic

by a routine exploratory ship that

"This was filed by a routine exploratory ship that came here eight hundred years ago.
— from Star Surgeon by Alan Edward Nourse

burned and ravaged every settlement they

He said that they, with the other redskins, desairted when their hopes o' plunder were disappointed, and that on their way back to their tribes they burned and ravaged every settlement they cam' across.
— from True to the Old Flag: A Tale of the American War of Independence by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

been a remarkable executive so that

Lenin, the bolshevist chief, is conceded to have been a remarkable executive, so that the socialist experiment was conducted by a man not only well versed in Marxian doctrine, but capable of exercising an intelligent and authoritative control of the government.
— from Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson

be a rival expedition said the

"There'll be a rival expedition," said the captain, falling in with his mood.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, February 1904, No. 159. by Various

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