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been embarked and this confirmed him

From the same quarter he learned that a great number of saddles and muskets had been embarked; and this confirmed him in his opinion that Egypt was their destination.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

be ever able to comprehend how

I am not in the least provoked at the sight of a lawyer, a pickpocket, a colonel, a fool, a lord, a gamester, a politician, a whoremonger, a physician, an evidence, a suborner, an attorney, a traitor, or the like; this is all according to the due course of things: but when I behold a lump of deformity and diseases, both in body and mind, smitten with pride, it immediately breaks all the measures of my patience; neither shall I be ever able to comprehend how such an animal, and such a vice, could tally together.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

boys everywhere and they called him

He followed the boys everywhere, and they called him "Wow wow.
— from The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone by Margaret A. McIntyre

brilliantly executed as this campaign had

But well-conceived and brilliantly executed as this campaign had been, the experienced warrior had failed to take account of the most formidable opponent he would have to reckon with.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods

being expected always to come home

I can’t stand want of punctuality at meals,” remarked his Majesty, which is a sign that he was growing old after all; for where is the fun of being expected always to come home in time for dinner when, perhaps, page 21 p. 21 you are fishing, and the trout are rising splendidly?
— from Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia: Being the Adventures of Prince Prigio's Son by Andrew Lang

But even at this critical hour

But even at this critical hour of his wife's life, he could not be much blamed, for all is race .
— from A Reconstructed Marriage by Amelia E. Barr

between England and the colonies had

The intercourse between England and the colonies had been more frequent and kindly, though the dawning love of liberty was quite as strong as in the Eastern settlements.
— from A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Amanda M. Douglas

becoming even as the Christ Himself

Scripture clearly proves in many places that these fallen ones took up their abode 'in the air,' the Devil becoming, even as the Christ Himself said: 'Prince of the power of the air.'
— from The Mark of the Beast by Sidney Watson

badly executed as to cause him

The printing was, however, so badly executed, as to cause him to say "he had been assassinated by his printer."
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 481, March 19, 1831 by Various

between Eleazar and the Cardinal Hört

The fourth act contains a grand duet between Eleazar and the Cardinal ("Hört ich recht?"), and closes with one of the most powerful scenas ever written for tenor ("Das Todesurtheil sprich"), in which Eleazar welcomes death and hurls defiance at the Christians.
— from The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

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