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being in full Indian dress at

In pursuance of this policy the Creek chiefs were entertained by the Tammany society, all the members being in full Indian dress, at which the visitors were much delighted and responded with an Indian dance, while McGillivray was induced to resign his commission as colonel in the Spanish service for a commission of higher grade in the service of the United States.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

body in fact it does all

Moreover, scammony, according to the Asclepiadean argument, not only fails to evacuate 110 the bile from the bodies of jaundiced subjects, but actually turns the useful blood into bile, and dissolves the body; in fact it does all manner of evil and increases the disease.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

but I found it detestable and

Besides, being an Italian, would it have been right for me not to admire everything which was French, and particularly in France?—Example, an oval diligence: I respected the fashion, but I found it detestable, and the singular motion of that vehicle had the same effect upon me as the rolling of a ship in a heavy sea.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

but I fear I do at

With mighty peace of mind and a hearty desire that I had but what I have quietly in the country, but, I fear, I do at this day see the best that either I or the rest of our nation will ever see.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

bestowing its favours it disregards all

One of the glories of the true religion is, that, in bestowing its favours, it disregards all the artificial distinctions of society, and addresses man as man, welcoming all who are human beings to the blessings of life and salvation.
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes

but its form is discredited and

in the hearts of the beneficent, but its form is discredited and its means are abridged.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, May 1885 by Various

Bowring is fine in design and

The garden and grotto were interesting, and the bronze bust which rests on a block whereon is engraved a poem to Macao by an English scholar, Sir John Bowring, is fine in design and execution.
— from Travels in the Far East by Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

but is found in Diptera and

This phenomenon is almost completely absent in Lepidoptera, 402 but is found in Diptera, and especially in Hymenoptera in every degree.
— from Studies in the Theory of Descent, Volume II by August Weismann

body I found it dry and

But when I came and looked at the body, I found it dry and sound, clad in a rough shirt of horse-hair.
— from Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. by C. Raymond (Charles Raymond) Beazley

believe I find is dead am

My name is Sir Henry Heywood; I have the honour of being second cousin to the late Earl of Danemore, and in default of his son Lord Harold, who, there is good reason to believe, I find, is dead, am heir to the title and estates of the late peer."
— from The Robber, A Tale. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

But I find in dissecting a

But I find, in dissecting a pea-blossom, that hidden in the center of it is a perfect miniature pea-pod, with the peas all in it,—as perfect a pea-pod as it will ever be, only it is as tiny as a chatelaine ornament.
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1 by Charles Dudley Warner

been into five independent districts administered

In consequence of this the monarchy of the high-priests was abolished and the Jewish land was broken up as Macedonia had formerly been, into five independent districts administered by governing colleges with an Optimate organization; Samaria and other townships razed by the Jews were re-established, to form a counterpoise to Jerusalem; and lastly a heavier tribute was imposed on the Jews than on the other Syrian subjects of Rome.
— from The History of Rome, Book V The Establishment of the Military Monarchy by Theodor Mommsen

before it fell Into decay and

Yet, for a few sad years, before it fell Into decay and ruin, there was one Who crept about its crumbling corridors, And lit the fire of memory on its hearth."— Wotton looked quickly up, "I think I have heard Something of that.
— from Watchers of the Sky by Alfred Noyes

but I fear I do at

With mighty peace of mind and a hearty desire that I had but what I have quietly in the country, but, I fear, I do at this day see the best that either I or the rest of our nation will ever see. 21st.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

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