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clean and the

In the literature of taboo is found also the ritualistic distinction between "the clean" and "the unclean" and the development of reverence and awe toward "the sacred" and "the holy."
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

countries and travel

" The other suitors were much displeased at this, and one of the young men said, "Antinous, you did ill in striking that poor wretch of a tramp: it will be worse for you if he should turn out to be some god—and we know the gods go about disguised in all sorts of ways as people from foreign countries, and travel about the world to see who do amiss and who righteously." 146 Thus said the suitors, but Antinous paid them no heed.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

Council after the

But since our Marco's claims to the designation of Nobilis Vir have been established, there is a doubt whether the providus vir or prud'-homme here spoken of may not have been rather his namesake Marco Polo of Cannareggio or S. Geremia, of whose existence we learn from another entry of the same year.[3] It is, however, possible that Marco the Traveller was called to the Great Council after the date of the document in question.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

courtiers and those

While the monarch was at table, his courtiers, and those who were in waiting in the halls adjoining, had to maintain strict silence.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

carry away the

In speaking of the devil she says: ‘He would carry away the Vice on his back quick to hell in every play.’
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

chambers again to

For the passages through the chambers, and the goings this way and that way through the courts, which were admirably adorned, afforded endless matter for marvel, as we went through from a court to the chambers beyond it, and from the chambers to colonnades, and from the colonnades to other rooms, and then from the chambers again to other courts.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

can afford to

“Now,” said Holmes, when the rejoicing lackey had disappeared, “having secured the future, we can afford to be more lenient with the past.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

crockery and the

For five-and-thirty minutes not a sound was heard throughout the length and breadth of that boat, save the clank of cutlery and crockery, and the steady grinding of four sets of molars.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

carvings and the

The Benvenuto Cellini carvings and the Sevres porcelain could not give her happiness, because she had passed out of their region.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Creeper and tree

The tender dame Asked Ráma, as they walked, the name Of every shrub that blossoms bore, Creeper, and tree unseen before: And Lakshmaṇ fetched, at Sítá's prayer, Boughs of each tree with clusters fair.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

candlesticks and the

She arranged on the far end of the dinner-table, pewter porringers, solid silver spoons, the pewter tankard and one large pewter plate and several small ones, the long-handled brass warming pan, two tall brass candlesticks and the snuffers from the mantel.
— from A Day in a Colonial Home by Della R. Prescott

conferred at that

It was conferred at that hour on none beside, imparted with no lavish distribution to a multitude of disciples, but restricted to the blessed company of apostles; and by implication to those whom they in after-time might designate and ordain, save that the supernatural interference of the same Lord in the vocation of particular apostles might and did afterwards occur.
— from The Vicar of Morwenstow: Being a Life of Robert Stephen Hawker, M.A. by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

calm and temperate

I have seen the title of a book recently published, "An Appeal to Pharoah," which is vouched for as a calm and temperate discussion of the question whether, after all, we are not going to get by this race difficulty by a great deportation to Africa.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889 by Various

clouds and the

If a vessel encounter a hurricane, certain conclusions can be drawn from observations of the shifts of wind, the fluctuations of the barometer, the appearance of the clouds, and the direction of the ocean swell; the master of that vessel will undoubtedly draw such conclusions, and store them away in his mind as part of his fund of experience upon which to base action at some future time.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. II., No. 3, July, 1890 by Various

clear and tuneful

Sometimes the voice was thick and discordant, sometimes low and clear and tuneful as a child's.
— from The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 10 by James Whitcomb Riley

chivalry assembled to

They saw a nation’s chivalry assembled to fight and die, if need be, in the nation’s cause, with its Emperor to patronise, and its nobles to lead the legions on, in all of which there was ground for real enthusiasm.
— from In the Track of the Troops by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

conveyed across the

Private aid was, indeed, freely afforded to the colonists; arms and ammunition were conveyed across the ocean in spite of embarrassing neutrality laws, and many enterprising officers were allowed to resign their positions in the French service and serve under Washington.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

cell and the

This is a simple cell, and the animal goes through a series of changes which eventually lead to the adult.
— from The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by H. W. (Herbert William) Conn

constant as the

Friedrich Wilhelm was a man of habitudes; his evening Tabagie became a law of Nature to him, constant as the setting of the sun.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Thomas Carlyle

chosen as the

The town has been chosen as the terminus for two railway lines seeking a Pacific port—the Interoceanic and the Mexican Central.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

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