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blessing exclaimed a third

What would you say if some day when you were a widow you heard your husband spoken ill of and your son Antonio should hang his head and remain silent?” “I would deny him my blessing!” exclaimed a third, Sister Rufa, “but—” “Deny him my blessing, never!” interrupted the kind Capitana Tinay.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

be explained and the

When we reflect upon the multitude, the variety, and the complexity of the facts to be explained, and the scantiness of our information regarding them, we shall be ready to acknowledge that a full and satisfactory solution of so profound a problem is hardly to be hoped for, and that the most we can do in the present state of our knowledge is to hazard a more or less plausible conjecture.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

becomes exposed above the

— nga gataw n variety, the tuber of which becomes exposed above the ground.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

by experts and then

Camillus performed a sacrifice to the gods, and purified the city in the manner recommended by experts, and then proceeded to restore all the previously existing temples, while he himself added another to Aius Loquutius , or Rumour, having carefully sought out the place at which the voice in the night miraculously foretold the coming of the Gaulish host to Marcus Caedicius.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

bold E ach tempts

N ew tricks for safety are sought; they thrive: when bold, E ach tempts the other again, and all are sold.
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

been examining all the

But I have been examining all the plans for cottages in Loudon's book, and picked out what seem the best things.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

by excavating at the

From the experiment of the ridge of vermilion wax we can see that, if the bees were to build for themselves a thin wall of wax, they could make their cells of the proper shape, by standing at the proper distance from each other, by excavating at the same rate, and by endeavouring to make equal spherical hollows, but never allowing the spheres to break into each other.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

back exhausted and the

" The aged father sank back exhausted, and the surrounding elders deemed, with good reason, that the hour was come when the new heads of the village must enter on their patriarchal duties.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

but even at that

Over and over again hopes were raised, only to be disappointed: on one occasion the lecturer, after much parleying, had actually agreed to do the work and had accepted his fee; but, even at that late stage, he backed out and returned the fee with an apology.
— from The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake by Graham Travers

becoming exhausted and that

He saw in New York the very Rev. Provincial, who told him that the Fathers at work on the missions at Philadelphia were becoming exhausted, and that even then the Rev. Father McGivern was on a dying bed there.
— from Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 by Various

breakfasted early and took

The next morning, May 8th, I rose and breakfasted early, and took the rail soon after eight o'clock, leaving Mr. Bowman behind; for he had business in Newcastle, and would not follow till some hours afterwards.
— from Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete by Nathaniel Hawthorne

be examined as the

Suitable cards may be played as they turn up in the deal, and after playing each, the columns should be examined, as the playing of a card may bring other available ones (Rule IV) into use.
— from Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience New Revised Edition, including American Games by Cadogan, Adelaide, Lady

But emigration and the

But emigration, and the heavy wars in which that country had been engaged, had been draining off the male population for many years previous.
— from The Mormon Prophet and His Harem Or, An Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and Children by C. V. (Catherine Van Valkenburg) Waite

but excluding all the

How is it possible that such a power can be fairly exercised by seizing on corporations and bankers, but excluding all the other usual subjects of bankrupt laws!
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

be established and there

It only needs one single case of spirit return to be established, and there is no more to be said.
— from The Wanderings of a Spiritualist by Arthur Conan Doyle

British Empire and they

The two last are included in the present British Empire, and they stand side by side with the three unitary Colonies—South Africa, New Zealand, and Newfoundland.
— from The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers

But events and their

But events and their own factious excesses had broken their power.
— from British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by J. L. (John Lyle) Morison

both erroneous and the

The assumption and the inference are both erroneous, and the argument thus advanced is without force, and is only significant of the weakness of the position which has to rest for its support on an assumed authority of the government to debase the coin of the country.
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

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