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Burton except like everybody else

'I had nothing in hand, Miss Burton, except like everybody else—to amuse myself, I suppose.'
— from At His Gates: A Novel. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

bonus et legalis ero Ejus

Petrum juro Quod urbi bonus et legalis ero, Ejus bona procurabo, Ejus mala vitabo: Dubia faciam cum consilio, Et justitiam tam parvo quam magno, Sicut alii magistratus et melius si scio, Sic non ero sine Dei ac sancti Petri adjutorio.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

been extended like everything else

The Allies, as was expected, defiantly refused the Prussian olive branch which had been extended like everything else from Germany with a string tied to it.
— from Germany, The Next Republic? by Carl W. (Carl William) Ackerman

be exactly like everyone else

Were we perfect, each of us would be exactly like everyone else.
— from The Ideal by Stanley G. (Stanley Grauman) Weinbaum

bouquets each long enough End

“boquets” changed to “bouquets” on page 96 (several bouquets, each long enough) End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary -- Volume 41, No. 03, March, 1887, by Various *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, MARCH, 1887 *** *****
— from The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 03, March, 1887 by Various

back every line even every

The faces that stared so grimly, in that desolate spot, into each other—the dead and the living—were alike in every particular, down to the smallest detail; it was as though the living man gazed into a mirror, which threw back every line, even every faint touch of colouring, in his own face.
— from The Second Dandy Chater by Tom Gallon

behave exactly like everybody else

It seemed hardly worth while to read a long volume in order to learn that you ought to behave exactly like everybody else.
— from Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Belarus Estonia large Eurasian empire

Ireland, United 54 35 N 7 00 W Kingdom Uman (local name for Oman 21 00 N 57 00 E Oman) Unimak Pass (strait) Pacific Ocean 54 20 N 164 50 W Union of Soviet Armenia, Socialist Republics or Azerbaijan, USSR (former name of a Belarus, Estonia, large Eurasian empire, Georgia, roughly coequal with the Kazakhstan, former Russian Empire) Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan United Arab Republic or Egypt, Syria UAR (former name for a federation between Egypt and Syria) Upper Volta (former name Burkina Faso 13 00 N 2 00 W for Burkina Faso) Ural Mountains Kazakhstan, Russia 60 00 N 60 00 E Urdunn (local name for Jordan 31 00 N 36 00 E Jordan) Urundi (former name for Burundi 3 30 S 30 00 E Burundi) Ussuri River China, Russia 48 28 N 135 02 E V NAME ENTRY
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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