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be real except minds and

This they hold, as Berkeley does, chiefly because they think there can be nothing real—or at any rate nothing known to be real except minds and their thoughts and feelings.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

be repeated every morning and

This has to be repeated (every?) morning and evening.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

by Rorico electos milites atque

[ The author of the Gesta Francorum positively affirms, that Clovis fixed a body of Franks in the Saintonge and Bourdelois: and he is not injudiciously followed by Rorico, electos milites, atque fortissimos, cum parvulis, atque mulieribus.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Beauty rose every morning at

Beauty rose every morning at four o'clock, and made haste to clean the house and prepare the dinner.
— from Tales of Passed Times by Charles Perrault

breakfast received each morning a

Each guest, as he came down to breakfast, received each morning a more constrained greeting.—I beg your pardon, ladies; I forgot to mention that my aunt had lady-visitors, of course.
— from Stephen Archer, and Other Tales by George MacDonald

blow rising every minute and

So long as there was a calm I had no fears, but when at length a violent wind began to blow, rising every minute, and I saw the boisterous high waves running on, I was seized with a little alarm and a little indisposition likewise."
— from Haydn by J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert) Hadden

been romping ever more and

Even the garden at Friars’ Holm, usually a coolly green oasis in the midst of the surrounding streets, seemed as airless as any back court or alley, and Coppertop, who had been romping ever more and more flaggingly with a fox-terrier puppy he had recently acquired, finally gave up the effort and flung himself down, red-faced and panting, on the lawn where his mother and Magda were sitting.
— from The Lamp of Fate by Margaret Pedler

be roasted enough ma am

"In another quarter of an hour the beef will be roasted enough, ma'am," at length said Mary, looking at the clock.
— from Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

bushy red eyebrows met above

Mr. Harum's bushy red eyebrows met above his nose.
— from David Harum A Story of American Life by Edward Noyes Westcott

been repeatedly examined measured and

Every part of the hemisphere turned toward us has been repeatedly examined, measured, and photographed; to that extent our knowledge of its topography is more complete than of the world on which we live.
— from Are the Planets Inhabited? by E. Walter (Edward Walter) Maunder

being retaken enraged me almost

The last of the houses passed, I ran at the top of my speed, for I felt sure that the pursuers were at my heels, and the possibility of being retaken enraged me almost past endurance.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, March 1885 by Various

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