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bound and related to everything else
Everything is so absolutely bound and related to everything else in the real world, that to condemn, or to think away anything, means to condemn and think away the whole.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

been a remedy to existing evils
The abdication, then, of the reigning Emperor would not have been a remedy to existing evils, unless his brother joined in the sacrifice of his claims, and made way for the succession of his son.
— from Life of Father Ignatius of St. Paul, Passionist (The Hon. & Rev. George Spencer). by Pius a Sp. Sancto (Pius a Spiritu Sancto)

bets are recorded the earlier entries
[101] A trifling record of my father's presence in Cambridge occurs in the book kept in Christ's College Combination-room, in which fines and bets are recorded, the earlier entries giving a curious impression of the after-dinner frame of mind of the Fellows.
— from Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters by Charles Darwin

but again returned towards evening empty
They separated again in search of game, but again returned, towards evening, empty handed.
— from Ungava Bob: A Winter's Tale by Dillon Wallace

by a return to energetic effective
And, even when the local trouble is only temporary, its disappearance is not necessarily followed, as it was in the instances just narrated, by a return to energetic, effective activity.
— from Psychology and parenthood by H. Addington (Henry Addington) Bruce

by a rosette the essential element
Deities carried in procession wear high tiaras also surmounted by a rosette, the essential element of which is a precious stone.
— from Manual of Oriental Antiquities by Ernest Babelon

bore away round the East end
We could not weather it, so bore away round the East end, and stood again to the Southward, passing close by it and sounding, but found no ground.
— from History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney

bitter and resentful thoughts every evil
My mind was overwhelmed with bitter and resentful thoughts; every evil passion was struggling for mastery, and the worst agony I was called upon to endure, was the hopeless, heart-crushing, downward tending madness of despair.
— from The Monctons: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 2) by Susanna Moodie

born and received their elementary education
Both were born and received their elementary education in Canada.
— from Our Intellectual Strength and Weakness A Short Historical and Critical Review of Literature, Art and Education in Canada by John George Bourinot

but as regards the external ecclesiastical
Reply Obj. 6: In God's sight the mere will makes a man guilty of simony; but as regards the external ecclesiastical punishment he is not punished as a simoniac, by being obliged to resign, but is bound to repent of his evil intention.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint


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