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capacity be ever more and

In order that the contest might seem sufficiently great to inspire sympathy and admiration in the unsanctified, it was essential that sexual capacity be ever more and more damned and denounced.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

captivated by easy manners a

Men look for beauty and the simper of good humoured docility: women are captivated by easy manners: a gentleman-like man seldom fails to please them, and their thirsty ears eagerly drink the insinuating nothings of politeness, whilst they turn from the unintelligible sounds of the charmer—reason, charm he never so wisely.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Centennial by E Mills and

Japanned and splinted with heavy brass , this brace was among the award-winning tools exhibited at the Centennial by E. Mills and Company of Philadelphia.
— from Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh

can be explained materialistically and

That is, none of its actions or of the phenomena of the internal sense can be explained materialistically; and hence of its separate nature and of the continuance or non-continuance of its personality after death absolutely no ampliative determinant judgement is possible on speculative grounds by means of our whole theoretical cognitive faculty.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

can be easily moved and

Between this board and the canon are inserted sliders, pierced with holes to correspond, and rubbed with oil so that they can be easily moved and slid back into place again.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

child born eleven months after

The iniquitous nature of the judgment was afterwards more clearly demonstrated—putting aside the fact that nothing could be said against the mother’s character—by the same court having the face to declare a child born eleven months after the father’s death legitimate.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Carthage but eventually made a

Afterwards, at the end of the Mercenary war in Africa, the Romans went so far as to pass a decree for war Fifth treaty, B.C. 238. with Carthage, but eventually made a treaty to the following effect: “The Carthaginians shall evacuate Sardinia, and pay an additional twelve hundred talents.”
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

cannot but excite man and

What perplexity arises, when it is required to solve an insolvable problem; unceasing meditation upon an object, impossible to understand, but in which however he thinks himself much concerned, cannot but excite man, and produce a fever in his brain.
— from Good Sense by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

can buy every morning at

But food and coins you can buy every morning at your two village fairs, and the hucksters there will tell you just what days the barber, the druggist, the potter, the copper hammerer, etc., will be around again, unless thieves waylay them, or gamblers entice them, or Taoist astrologers, looking for a bribe, deceive them into belief that it is their unlucky day by their birth star on the almanac!
— from China Revolutionized by John Stuart Thomson

continued by electricity massage and

Treatment was then continued by electricity, massage and reëducation, so that all movements soon regained strength.
— from Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 by Elmer Ernest Southard

continued Bleaks examining me at

“You ain’t come alone, are you?” continued Bleaks, examining me at the same time out of the corners of his eyes.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 by Various

cannot but express my admiration

I cannot but express my admiration of the conduct of this People.
— from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 4, April, 1884 by Various

could be easily made and

A slender collection of his poems could be easily made, and should be.
— from Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 2 of 2 by John Wilson Townsend

Crnagora became ever more and

Later, as the ship ploughed her way through the waves, and the mountains of Crnagora became ever more and more faint and indistinct, we thought of Tennyson's words:— "They rose to where their sov'ran eagle sails, They kept their faith, their freedom, on the height, Chaste, frugal, savage, armed by day and night Against the Turk; whose inroad nowhere scales Their headlong passes, but his footstep fails, And red with blood the Crescent reels from fight Before their dauntless hundreds in prone flight
— from The Land of the Black Mountain: The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro by Reginald Wyon

cows by electric machinery and

Nowadays, when they milk cows by electric machinery and use steam launches on the water, most of the water sprites of all kinds have been driven away, for they do not like the smell of kerosene or gasoline.
— from Welsh Fairy Tales by William Elliot Griffis

can be easily managed and

"It is very evident that they look upon me as a silly, vacillating girl, who can be easily managed and won over by pretty clothes and glittering baubles.
— from The Masked Bridal by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.

cold bath every morning and

There's a library aboard, too, so I've read several novels, and I'm getting used to my clothes—I don't believe I've got too many after all—and to taking a cold bath every morning and shaving at least once a day.
— from The Old Gray Homestead by Frances Parkinson Keyes

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