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composing of ordinaries referring them

At any rate, whilst they are usually drawn inclined to the dexter, in Woodward and Burnett they are to the sinister, and Guillim gives them turned to the dexter, saying, "This form of line I never yet met with in use as a partition, though frequently in composing of ordinaries referring them like to the trunks of trees with the branches lopped off, and that (as I take it) it was intended to represent."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

condition of ordinary reservation tribes

By this act the five civilized tribes are reduced to the condition of ordinary reservation tribes under government agents with white communities planted in their midst.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

charge of obtain receive take

to ‘ heed ,’ observe , B, LL ; Æ: look after, care for, guard, protect, take charge of : obtain, receive, take , Æ .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

can oppose or retard the

Nothing can oppose or retard the impulse of passion, but a contrary impulse; and if this contrary impulse ever arises from reason, that latter faculty must have an original influence on the will, and must be able to cause, as well as hinder any act of volition.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

came ordering our regiment to

"It was to have been next September, but an hour ago a despatch came ordering our regiment to the Presidio, San Francisco.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

concern overlooked or rejected the

Yet all these sages (it is no less an object of surprise than of concern) overlooked or rejected the perfection of the Christian system.
— 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

connexion of our representations than

To this latter it is of more service to make nature comprehensible according to analogy with the subjective ground of the connexion of our representations, than to cognise it from objective grounds.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

couple of other regiments that

He mentioned Negley's Pennsylvania Brigade, at Pittsburg, and a couple of other regiments that were then en route for St. Louis.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

caused out of revenge the

Heaven's Field-marshal, and his legions; and ceasing the fight, after his defeat, he caused, out of revenge, the first man, and in him all his descendants, to fall, while he himself, with all his co-rebels, was plunged into hell and eternal damnation.
— from Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel

congenital origin or rather to

This whole group of above-mentioned stigmata, which seem to have a congenital origin, or, rather, to be connected in a general way with growth itself, are called malformations , to distinguish them from deformations , which evidently have an acquired origin, especially from pathological causes, such, for instance, as rachitis and forms of paralysis which arrest the development of a limb, etc., resulting in functional and morphological asymmetry.
— from Pedagogical Anthropology by Maria Montessori

centre of one rivet to

Where the cut reads p = (2 1 ⁄ 2 )d, it means that the distance from the centre of one rivet to the centre of the next shall be 2 1 ⁄ 2 the diameter of the rivet, see example, page 115.
— from Maxims and Instructions for the Boiler Room Useful to Engineers, Firemen & Mechanics; Relating to Steam Generators, Pumps, Appliances, Steam Heating, Practical Plumbing, etc. by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins

class of objections relates to

The second class of objections relates to alleged contradictions and inconsistencies between the different {86} writers.
— from Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows

class of objects rather than

We use the term taste to denote the mind's power of cognizing the beautiful, a power of knowing, of discriminating, rather than of feeling, an exercise of judgment and the reflective power, directed to one particular class of objects, rather than any distinct faculty of the mind.
— from Mental Philosophy: Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will by Joseph Haven

consist of one room through

They consist of one room, through the top of which is a hole to carry away the smoke from the open fire.
— from Peeps at Many Lands: Newfoundland by Ford Fairford

construction of oil refineries to

Its prosperity (and that of neighboring Aruba) was restored in the early 20th century with the construction of oil refineries to service the newly discovered Venezuelan oil fields.
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

condition of our race that

It is a condition of our race that we must ever wade through error in our advance
— from A Lecture on the Study of History by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

course of our ride two

We observed, in the course of our ride, two vessels under sail for the island.
— from Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. III) by Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de

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