"No, we are not of your people," replied Dorothy, with mildness, "but we are Christians looking upward to the same heaven with you.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
" "But if a series of such coincidences lead up to the same point," said Robert.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
Perhaps this current leads us to the southern pole itself.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe
But as the legislature has thought proper thus to set at defiance the moral sense of mankind, and to take refuge behind the enactments of the Constitution, let us try the strength of their entrenchments.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society
He watched the latest, hardier fish, not yet driven to warmer climes, leap up through the sparkling ripples and disappear again.
— from Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
If you cannot live up to the spirit of that motto, do not plan a life without worry for yourself in Paris.
— from Paris Vistas by Helen Davenport Gibbons
This defect in them, conceived of from the point of view of content, leads us to the second department allied to Philosophy,—that is, to Religion.
— from Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 1 (of 3) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The ascent from the first to the second was managed by means of a very convenient arrangement of steps, which encircled the chapel and which were divided into two flights for the sake of greater comfort, leading up to the second church.
— from The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) by Giorgio Vasari
But gradually our will can lead us to the same results by a very simple method: we need only in cold blood act as if the thing in question were real, and keep acting as if it were real, and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James
From all reports he was reinforcing the defenses at one point or another where these caverns led up to the surface.
— from The Serpent River by Don Wilcox
An immense reef of rocks, some under water, others barely above it, but none distinguishable till we had almost run against them, opposed our progress; and it was not without considerable difficulty, and the assistance of the country people, who made signals to us from the beach, that we contrived to discover a narrow channel leading up to the strand.
— from The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig
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