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cannot but deserve to

Come, therefore, let me suggest to you by what means you may be happy, and may leave an eternal prosperous possession thereof to your children after you, and then let me thus go out of the world; and I cannot but deserve to be believed by you, both on account of the great things I have already done for you, and because, when souls are about to leave the body, they speak with the sincerest freedom.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

can be devised to

With no sauce that can be devised to it.
— from Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

can be done to

What can be done to remove the demand for fallen women?
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

cleared by degrees the

Then, as his memory cleared by degrees, the effect of waking, he recalled his aunt, the ten louis, and the account which he had undertaken to render of the deeds and proceedings of Marius.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

cannot be denied That

But first, the beetle, interceding, cried, 'Great queen of birds, it cannot be denied, That, maugre my protection, you can bear My trembling guest, John Rabbit, through the air.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

cannot be deferred to

There is something ridiculous, Stranger, in our proposing such an alternative, as if we were legislators, simply bound under some great necessity which cannot be deferred to the morrow.
— from Laws by Plato

could be driven to

This embodied the first suggestion of screw-propellers, to be worked by man-power, and also provided for a 'ballonet' into which air could be driven to replace hydrogen lost owing to expansion during the ascent.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

cannot be doubted that

Notwithstanding the equal authority which will subsist between the two houses on all legislative subjects, except the originating of money bills, it cannot be doubted that the House, composed of the greater number of members, when supported by the more powerful States, and speaking the known and determined sense of a majority of the people, will have no small advantage in a question depending on the comparative firmness of the two houses.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

C B Davenport The

[76] Adapted from C. B. Davenport, "The Method of Evolution," in Castle, Coulter, Davenport, East, and Tower, Heredity and Eugenics , pp. 269-87.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

can be done then

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

could be done toward

Mr. MacMasters went outside to assure himself that nothing could be done toward searching for the rest of the crew of the auxiliary steamer before daybreak.
— from Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns; Or, Sinking the German U-Boats by Halsey Davidson

Castel Blazo distrusted those

Don Bernardo de Castel Blazo distrusted those who kept company with Alguazils ; but it is a highly desirable privilege to be friends with the Civil Guard.
— from Northern Spain by Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram

conversation by describing the

Mr. Dishart presided, with the bride and bridegroom near him; but though he tried to give an agreeable turn to the conversation by describing the extensions at the cemetery, his personality oppressed us, and we only breathed freely when he rose to go.
— from Auld Licht Idyls by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

cannot be denied though

That there are good-looking girls among some Indian tribes cannot be denied, though they are exceptional.
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

cannot be due to

Again, these characters cannot be due to evolution if they are a return to the ancient progenitor of the group; for that implies the possession of a larger number of characters in the progenitor than in its descendants; which directly militates against evolution, which is an advance from the simpler to the more complex.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

could be done them

The proprietor began to cut down the forest, but the peasants, unable to believe that such an obvious injustice could be done them by a higher court, did not submit to the decree, and drove away the workmen who were sent to cut down the forest, declaring that the forest belonged to them, and that they would petition the Tsar, but would not allow the proprietor to cut down the forest.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You / Christianity and Patriotism / Miscellanies by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Code by devoting themselves

Here he again met Mathieu, and they made up for the aridity of the Civil Code by devoting themselves to poetry in Provençal.
— from Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Charles Alfred Downer

could be done therefore

All that could be done, therefore, by the young men was to follow the lines hastily marked out before they separated.
— from The Campers Out; Or, The Right Path and the Wrong by Edward Sylvester Ellis

came by degrees to

It came by degrees to be understood that, toward the end of February, she should look around at Sandwood and see what she could find.
— from Jennie Gerhardt: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

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