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come hither only to

'Perhaps,' said she, 'I am come hither only to learn a dreadful truth, or to witness some horrible spectacle; I feel that my senses would not survive such an addition of horror.'
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Could he or the

Could he, or the Lucases, have pitched on any man, within the circle of our acquaintance, whose name would have given the lie more effectually to what they related?
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

calling himself out to

A very brilliant young man in New York who has climbed to a responsible position in a very short time, tells me that he has been surprised on several occasions when he has been called upon to speak at banquets, or on other public occasions, at the new discoveries he has made of himself of power which he never before dreamed he possessed, and he now regrets more than anything else that he has allowed so many opportunities for calling himself out to go by in the past.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

coffee house on the

The Cocoa-Tree was originally a coffee house on the south side of Pall Mall.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

commission he owed to

He planned for his little daughter the most singular and unexpected gifts: once it was to be the proceeds of his bust of Chancellor Pasquier, a commission he owed to Juliette and her friendship with the subject; another time it was the price of a house he possessed at Ville d’Avray and wished to sell; again, he designed to settle upon Claire the sum of 2,000 frs.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

critical history of their

109 Note 97 ( return ) [ It is pity that the Colonna themselves have not favored the world with a complete and critical history of their illustrious house.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

cure him of this

I do love Cassio well, and would do much To cure him of this evil-
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

coin having on the

The double head with two balls is seen on a Telamonian coin, having on the reverse what appears to be a leg with the foot turned upwards.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

commanded he occupied the

With one division of his army he hastened to seize the pass at Platanus; with the rest, which he personally commanded, he occupied the environs of Porphyrion; and there prepared to resist the invasion of the king: the fleet being also anchored close to him.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

china head of the

Sally was an india-rubber doll; Clara, a doll with a china head of the old-fashioned kind, smooth, shining black hair, brilliant rosy cheeks, and calm (very calm) blue eyes.
— from When I was your age by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Cajori History of the

Footnotes [1] F. Cajori, History of the Logarithmic Slide Rule and Allied Instruments , New York, 1909, pp.
— from On the History of Gunter's Scale and the Slide Rule During the Seventeenth Century by Florian Cajori

Captain Headland over the

Next morning Julia volunteered to show several of the guests who had lately arrived, including Captain Headland, over the grounds.
— from Won from the Waves by William Henry Giles Kingston

Chisenbury House on the

I could easily see that there was a shuffle meant here; and I anticipated that our services were much too zealous and disinterested to meet with the sanction of his Lordship, and so it proved; for when I reached Chisenbury House, on the following Sunday, I found a letter, written by Lord Pembroke to Sir John Melburn Poore, Bart, left for my perusal, as underneath:—— Margate, August , 1803.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Henry Hunt

causing hundreds of thousands

If the transformation of a temperate into an arctic climate occurred so rapidly that the species exposed to it had the alternative either of becoming white in ten or twenty generations or of being unable to exist, then the hasty intervention of a directive power could alone save them from extermination by causing hundreds of thousands of individuals to become similarly coloured with all speed.
— from Studies in the Theory of Descent, Volume II by August Weismann

carried her off to

There it became evident that Ethel and Aubrey were seen over the balusters; Leonard's colour deepened, but his eye did not flinch; though Henry quailed and backed, and the widow gave a disconcerted laugh; then Leonard pounced on his little sister and carried her off to the cloak-room.
— from The Trial; Or, More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Captain Hayden of the

Captain Hayden, of the Dubuque battery, answered the enemy's batteries, which had opened upon our advancing columns, with a brisk fire.
— from The History of the Fifty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteers by David Lathrop

change he observed that

While Pasquale was making up the change, he observed that the young man, of whom he had heard so much in a few words, was watching the transaction covertly.
— from A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad

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