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cause or understand The secret
The course of heavenly cause, or understand The secret meaning of th' eternall might, That rules mens wayes, and rules the thoughts of living wight.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

county out upon the seat
Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the seat, and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford for its centre.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

certe opes umbra transiens sunt
Porro Mohammed filius Abdollahi nepotis mei (nepos meus) quo cum ex aequo librabitur e Koraishidis quispiam cui non praeponderaturus est, bonitate et excellentia, et intellectu et gloria, et acumine etsi opum inops fuerit, (et certe opes umbra transiens sunt et depositum quod reddi debet,) desiderio Chadijae filiae Chowailedi tenetur, et illa vicissim ipsius, quicquid autem dotis vice petieritis, ego in me suscipiam, (Pocock, Specimen, e septima parte libri Ebn Hamduni.)
— 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

carried on under the shadow
To such Oriental cogitations, for instance, carried on under the shadow of uncontrollable despotisms, mankind owes all its greater religions.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

came out upon the sulphur
I clambered up the narrow cleft in the rock and came out upon the sulphur on the westward side of the village of the Beast Men.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

come out upon the security
He also made a fresh exhortation to the people to come out upon the security that would be given them.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

condition of using the smallest
Of course only a certain number of all these arrangements are available when we have that other condition of using the smallest possible number of boats.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

came out upon the steps
They rushed out; but when they came out upon the steps both of them were killed: the man who went out the last was the first killed.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

came over us to separate
I was not hidden from Eve, neither was she hidden from me, until now that she cannot see me; and no darkness came over us to separate us from each other.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

clambered out upon the sill
I clambered out upon the sill, but I hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between my savior and the ruffian who pursued me.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

come out upon the sidewalk
He had made several visits to a neighboring groggery and indulged in potations which helped to while away the time, but he was getting very impatient, when, to his great joy, he saw Rose come out upon the sidewalk, and alone , which was better still.
— from Rough and Ready; Or, Life Among the New York Newsboys by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

commanding one upon the second
Their position at St. Louis is, as usual, a commanding one, upon the second bank, of which I have spoken, and looking proudly down upon the Mississippi, along which the line is parallel.
— from Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 1 by Edmund Flagg

congratulated ourselves upon the security
Having done this, we congratulated ourselves upon the security of the position; for we were now completely excluded from observation, as long as we chose to remain within the ravine itself, and not venture out upon the hill, We could perceive no traces of the savages having ever been within this hollow; but, indeed, when we came to reflect upon the probability that the fissure through which we attained it had been only just now created by the fall of the cliff opposite, and that no other way of attaining it could be perceived, we were not so much rejoiced at the thought of being secure from molestation as fearful lest there should be absolutely no means left us for descent.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

cause operating under the same
When by a severe and diligent analysis we have ascertained all the ingredients of any phenomenon, and have separated it from all that is foreign and adventitious, we know its true nature, and may deduce a general law from our experiment; for a general law is nothing more than an expression of the effect produced by the same cause operating under the same circumstances.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various

complain of unpleasant throbbing sensations
Many times such patients, as well as occasionally trained athletes, and sometimes patients with arteriosclerosis or chronic interstitial nephritis complain of unpleasant throbbing sensations of the heart added to these sensations are a feeling of fulness in the head, flushing of
— from Disturbances of the Heart Discussion of the Treatment of the Heart in Its Various Disorders, With a Chapter on Blood Pressure by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne

C o uacciáre to sneake
C ó ua, as C o uáta. C o uacciáre, to sneake, to sit, or squat, or coure, or lurke as it were vpon a nest.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

came out upon the sandy
They had now reached the end of the path, and, turning round by a group of pine-trees which grew at the foot of the hill, came out upon the sandy beach.
— from Chatterbox, 1906 by Various


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