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but you take effectual steps

If you are cheated out of a single dollar by your neighbor, you do not rest satisfied with knowing that you are cheated, or with saying that you are cheated, or even with petitioning him to pay you your due; but you take effectual steps at once to obtain the full amount, and see that you are never cheated again.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

but you take effectual steps

If you are cheated out of a single dollar by your neighbor, you do not rest satisfied with knowing you are cheated, or with saying that you are cheated, or even with petitioning him to pay you your due; but you take effectual steps at once to obtain the full amount, and see that you are never cheated again.
— from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

brings you the Evangelists said

* * * * * * “‘This is the priest, he brings you the Evangelists,’ said Don Sebastian, gravely, returning with a tall and solemn figure.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

been yielding their evening sacrifice

Sweet-briar and southernwood, jasmine, pink, and rose have long been yielding their evening sacrifice of incense: this new scent is neither of shrub nor flower; it is—I know it
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

but yet thine eye Some

Succeeds a boundless sea, but yet thine eye Some Island moles may scattered there descry; 65 And Sailing towards her India , in that way Shall at her fair Atlantick Navell stay; Though thence the Current be thy Pilot made, Yet ere thou be where thou wouldst be embay'd, Thou shalt upon another Forest set, 70 Where many Shipwrack, and no further get.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

by you The evidence so

Well, well, I fear it will be proved by you, The evidence so great a proof doth carry.
— from Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Smith, William, active 1596

begun yet to eat such

When any one—alarmed at the threatening aspect of the brute, who never failed to growl and shew his fangs when approached—asked his master to call him off, Massicault used only to reply with an ill-natured laugh: 'He has not begun yet to eat such big morsels as you; but there's no saying what he may do one of these days!'
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 702 June 9, 1877 by Various

before Yahweh to eat sufficiently

It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
— from The World English Bible (WEB): Isaiah by Anonymous

born yet twins expected shortly

Literally translated it means: Baby not born yet; twins expected shortly; your wife now in hospital; everything lovely!
— from Cappy Ricks Retires: But That Doesn't Keep Him from Coming Back Stronger Than Ever by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

before you the exceeding sinfulness

I have endeavoured to set before you the exceeding sinfulness of slavery, and to point you to the example of those noble women who have been raised up in the church to effect great revolutions, and to suffer for the truth's sake.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

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