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bearing another signature evidently emanate

Thus the Commission has not hesitated to comprise in this collection a great number of items which, although bearing another signature, evidently emanate from Napoleon....
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Brastias and Sir Ector encountered

Then Ulfius, and Brastias, and Sir Ector encountered against the Duke Eustace, and King Cradelment, and King Clariance of Northumberland, and King Carados, and against the King with the Hundred Knights.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

board and several elsewhere even

Our captain and mate, and other people on board, and several elsewhere, even the natives of Bermudas, all knew this young man from a child that he was always free, and no one had ever claimed him as their property: however, as might too often overcomes right in these parts, it happened that a Bermudas captain, whose vessel lay there for a few days in the road, came on board of us, and seeing the mulatto-man, whose name was Joseph Clipson, he told him he was not free, and that he had orders from his master to bring him to Bermudas.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

bankruptcy and some extraordinary expenditure

This contract gives me a net profit of ten thousand florins a year; but an unforeseen embarrassment, which I must remedy; a fraudulent bankruptcy, and some extraordinary expenditure, place me for the present in monetary difficulties.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Borghese and supped every evening

He was the favourite pathic of Cardinal Borghese, and supped every evening with his eminence.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

board at six each evening

Circumstances, uncontrollable of course, had from the beginning necessitated a dinner at one o’clock, so that they assembled round the family board at six each evening, in a hungry and happy frame of body and mind, (which late diners would envy if they understood it), with the prospect of an evening—not bed—before them.
— from The Battery and the Boiler: Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

be and showed every evidence

'Certainly she did,' said Ischomachus, 'and solemnly promised to the gods that she would be what she ought to be, and showed every evidence of a disposition not to neglect what was taught her.'
— from Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson

but a spiritual exercise ennobling

It is this inspiring combination of noble qualities in Dante's character, reflected in every page of the Divine Comedy, which makes the study of the latter not merely an æsthetic pleasure, but a spiritual exercise, ennobling and uplifting the minds of those who read it with the "spirit and with the understanding also."
— from Studies in the Poetry of Italy, Part II. Italian by Oscar Kuhns

but a single employee exceeded

That which followed saw him promoted another step, so that when the fourth year opened it saw him in a situation where the salary of but a single employee exceeded his; that was the bookkeeper.
— from Brave Tom; Or, The Battle That Won by Edward Sylvester Ellis

But all such efforts end

But all such efforts end in effect alone, nor have I ever in any single instance seen a snow wreath , I do not say thoroughly, but even decently, drawn.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) by John Ruskin

been a subconscious emotion entirely

Or at least, if it had been there, it had been a subconscious emotion, entirely overshadowed by bitterness.
— from The Trail to Yesterday by Charles Alden Seltzer

build at such enormous expense

In the religious instinct which led the Buddhists to build, at such enormous expense of time and money, those cave temples of Elephanta, Ellora, and Carlee; in the idolatrous Hindoo temples of Madura, Tanjore, and Trichinopoly, the shrines of Ceylon, the pagodas of China, and the rich temples of Nikko, one detects an underlying and elevating sentiment, a grand and reverential idea, in which there may be more of truth and acceptable veneration than we can appreciate; but in the pyramids we have no expression of devotion; only an embodiment of personal vanity, which hesitated at nothing for its gratification, and which has only proved a total failure.
— from Due West; Or, Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou

brother and sister embraced each

The brother and sister embraced each other softly, and wept in silence at the thought of the innocent sacrifice.
— from Titan: A Romance. v. 2 (of 2) by Jean Paul

by a screwed end E

163 to 169 , and is composed of a wrought-iron body D, connected by a screwed end E to the boring rod, and carrying the chisels F F, fixed in separate
— from Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells With Geological Considerations and Examples of Wells Executed by Ernest Spon

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