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complain impossible to have any regrets about

He was her all— with Him exile was no exile; with Him God's Will was easy, God's arrangements the best; with Him it was impossible to complain, impossible to have any regrets about the past, or impatient wonderings about the future.
— from Mater Christi: Meditations on Our Lady by Mother St. Paul

come into the house and run and

When his parents returned, he tried to make them understand how a strange thing had come into the house, and run, and jumped, and made a noise.
— from Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life by Lydia Maria Child

condemnation in the hereafter as reward and

The Duration of Punishment WE are accustomed to speak broadly of salvation and condemnation in the hereafter as reward and punishment, respectively.
— from The Vitality of Mormonism: Brief Essays on Distinctive Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by James E. (James Edward) Talmage

called in the household and read a

" She might have worn the violets on her breast," he thought; and then he rose hastily and called in the household, and read a psalm, and made a short, fervid prayer with them.
— from The Lion's Whelp: A Story of Cromwell's Time by Amelia E. Barr

came into the hangar and reported a

A moment later a soldier came into the hangar and reported a bad smash.
— from The Brighton Boys with the Flying Corps by James R. Driscoll

crosses in their hands and reached a

The two Christians saw that God would not be served if the Indian was left to these devils, so they fastened some cords round his waist, and, calling upon God for help, they went on with the Indian between them, and with crosses in their hands, and reached a hill; but still with great difficulty.
— from The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León

clambering in the hollows as rude as

High rocky hills, as blue as sapphire, closed the view, and between these lay ridge upon ridge, heathery, craggy, the sun glittering in veins of rock, the underwood clambering in the hollows, as rude as God made them at the first.
— from In the Track of R. L. Stevenson and Elsewhere in Old France by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

Come into the house and rest awhile

"Come into the house and rest awhile before dinner.
— from The Haunted Chamber: A Novel by Duchess

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