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be experienced either by ourselves
These facts have first to be experienced either by ourselves or some other person.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

be extinguished either by others
Moreover, I should not hesitate to assert 199 that the 89 most formidable peril in connection with this is "the visits of bad women," 200 and their chatter, and joint lamentation, all which things fan the fire of sorrow and aggravate it, and suffer it not to be extinguished either by others or by itself.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

be extinguished except by order
But if Doc demurred, or declared that the light could not be extinguished except by order of Jarrow, Trask would have called attention to his own wishes and his plan would be balked.
— from Isle o' Dreams by Frederick Ferdinand Moore

by eating every bit of
They also enter the houses and utterly ruin them by eating every bit of timber that is used in them.
— from Insect Architecture by James Rennie

be ex erted by one
Ac- 100:3 cording to the American Cyclopaedia, he regarded this so-called force, which he said could be ex- erted by one living organism over another, as 100:6 a means of alleviating disease.
— from Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

being erected extra barns out
All about the farm queer parts of buildings were being erected, extra barns, out-houses, bits of fence, and the like.
— from The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays Or, The Sham Battles at Oak Farm by Laura Lee Hope

by every established body of
The truth that the regulative structure always tends to increase in power, is illustrated by every established body of men.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 3 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

best Encyclopaedia ever brought out
# each CORNISH BROS. will send the best Encyclopaedia ever brought out.
— from A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" by Thomas Anderton

been equalled either before or
This later rococo period, as far as its technique is concerned, is one which has never been equalled either before or since.
— from Jewellery by H. Clifford (Harold Clifford) Smith

broad ever extending basis of
Geology rests on a broad, ever extending basis of evidence, wholly independent of the revelation on which they profess, very unintelligently, in all the instances I have yet known, to found their objections.
— from The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller

be estimated exactly but only
But there was one element that could not be estimated exactly, but only guessed at and allowed for—the presence of German troops on the actual Mole.
— from The Thick of the Fray at Zeebrugge, April 1918 by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman


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