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bury us respectably too it stands
"He said it was noways a moral institootion; and so I shouldn't have even a decent burying to look forward to for me and my wife (my poor daughters being widows, and a great expense to me), if he hadn't said he'd bury us himself if I'd give it up, and bury us respectably too, it stands to reason.
— from Fated to Be Free: A Novel by Jean Ingelow

brutality under restraint there is something
After all, since they cannot keep their brutality under restraint, there is something to be said for the use of pistols."
— from By Right of Purchase by Harold Bindloss

but unhesitatingly recognised that imaginary sister
That night Greenleaf saw in his dreams his father's rectory among the south country pines, the garden and paddock, the big library and loft full of books; and among it all there wandered about, rather dim in features, but unhesitatingly recognised, that imaginary sister, the violinist Emily. VI. "Tell me more about the Miss Carpenters," said Miss Flodden shyly, keeping her eyes fixed on the rapidly flowing twist of water between the big shingle, where every now and then came the spurt of a salmon's leap.
— from Vanitas: Polite Stories by Vernon Lee

based upon reason there is small
If a child is allowed to grow up in the "I know what I like" atmosphere, without reasonable contact with choice things, and without the necessity for selection based upon reason, there is small chance that such a child will ever acquire any sense of fitness or taste in material surroundings.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Guide and Index by Cheshire Lowton Boone


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