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cold or heat or other natural
"The astral body is not subject to cold or heat or other natural conditions.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

cross of his order or not
She could never remember whether she had seen his star, or cross, of his order or not, but it flashed in her mind, like a symbol.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

case of hundreds or of ne
What does it mean?” “It means, to my thinking,” said Levin, who was beginning to get warm, “that among eighty millions of people there can always be found not hundreds, as now, but tens of thousands of people who have lost caste, ne’er-do-wells, who are always ready to go anywhere—to Pogatchev’s bands, to Khiva, to Serbia....” “I tell you that it’s not a case of hundreds or of ne’er-do-wells, but the best representatives of the people!”
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

company on his own order no
And thus it came about that he discovered Armstrong's "crime"—twenty-five thousand dollars, which had been paid to Horace Armstrong on his own order and never accounted for; a few months later, a second item of the same size and mystery; a few months later, a third; a fourth, a fifth, a sixth and so on, until in all Armstrong had got from the company on his own order no less than three hundred and fifty thousand dollars for which he never accounted.
— from Light-Fingered Gentry by David Graham Phillips

citations one hears only of nature
Until the end of these citations one hears only of nature and spirit, the two that have no beginning, but here one finds the Supreme Spirit, which is as distinct from the indestructible one as from the destructible.
— from The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

couple of hours out of New
The flight was a couple of hours out of New York when one of the flight attendants came up to him.
— from Terminal Compromise by Winn Schwartau

concern of his outlaw or no
But Eanulf pushed me forward among them, saying that I, being bishop's man, was no more concern of his, outlaw or no outlaw, and that saints were beyond him.
— from A Thane of Wessex Being a Story of the Great Viking Raids into Somerset by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

constitution of his Order of nuns
J. F. Chantal the constitution of his Order of nuns: by Hesse. (3) St. Paul.
— from Paris Grant Allen's Historical Guides by Grant Allen


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