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come out of the soil
So they transmute themselves into one another: in the spot where an ancestor lost his churinga, a sacred tree or rock has come out of the soil, just the same as in those places where he entered the ground himself.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

carried out of the Sea
Part of the Wares, with the dead folks, is carried out of the Sea , 9.
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

came out of the Sheriff
As he came out of the Sheriff's room, after receiving the final announcement that there could be no further delay, the white collars on each side of his face were wet through and through with the tears that were gushing from his eyes and pouring down his cheeks!
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

changed one o the suvreigns
An' I'n changed one o' the suvreigns to buy my mother a goose for dinner, an' I'n bought a blue plush wescoat, an' a sealskin cap,–for if I meant to be a packman, I'd do it respectable.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

coming out of the Stores
But on my last day in town, coming out of the Stores, I met her with her son and daughter; like myself, she had been making her final purchases before leaving London, and we were both hot and tired.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

categories originally only translate social
But if the categories originally only translate social states, does it not follow that they can be applied to the rest of nature only as metaphors?
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Church one of the San
Samgha; the Priesthood or Church, one of the San Pao of Buddhism, 119 Sentiments, Æsthetic and Moral , 51 – 52 Sha Ho-shang , or Sha Wu-ching .
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

coming out of the same
There have been great philosophers who have made nothing of this tie of nature, as Aristippus for one, who being pressed home about the affection he owed to his children, as being come out of him, presently fell to spit, saying, that this also came out of him, and that we also breed worms and lice; and that other, that Plutarch endeavoured to reconcile to his brother: “I make never the more account of him,” said he, “for coming out of the same hole.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

came out on the sky
Gradually the silent stockade came out on the sky above him.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

coming out of the solid
Shrewd shoppers coming out of the solid stone mass of the Bonsecours pause beside the wagons that are backed along the broad-flagged sidewalks.
— from The Personality of American Cities by Edward Hungerford

come out of the shadow
We shall have one to-night—vagrant or prophet, Jesus said, and asked his brethren to look yonder; for it seemed to him that a man had just come out of the shadow of an overhanging rock.
— from The Brook Kerith: A Syrian story by George Moore

can object on the score
so no {35} one can object on the score of expense.
— from From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for young householders by J. E. (Jane Ellen) Panton

came out on the steps
* * * * * * When the last note of the songs had died away the door of the dark house opened and a woman came out on the steps.
— from The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks; Or, The House of the Open Door by Hildegard G. Frey

climbed out of the sleighs
Finding themselves at the end of their journey, the three climbed out of the sleighs, their limbs considerably cramped from their long-constrained posture.
— from Among the Esquimaux; or, Adventures under the Arctic Circle by Edward Sylvester Ellis

chairs one of them set
Close to the wall two lighted candles stood on chairs; one of them set in a large candlestick of white metal which the visitors to the Chapdelaine home had never seen before, while for holding the other Maria had found nothing better than a glass bowl used in the summer time for blueberries and wild raspberries, on days of ceremony.
— from Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of the Lake St. John Country by Louis Hémon

contradictions of our times so
“I am talking now with you, as I used in those happy hours when you were at my side, and when, after the reading of some book of the progressive school, we used to philosophise with each other about the contradictions of our times, so intimately, so entirely understanding and supplementing each other.
— from Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling by Bertha von Suttner

creed out of the six
The Christian population of Aleppo was bitterly disheartened at having failed to return one of their own creed out of the six deputies who represent the vilayet.
— from Amurath to Amurath by Gertrude Lowthian Bell


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