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Columbia University Studies in Political
"Columbia University Studies in Political Science."
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

cook until soft in Pg
COMPOTE OF APPLES Peel and core the apples and cook until soft in [ Pg 472] syrup to cover, flavoring with lemon or spice if desired.
— from The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed

committed under such intense provocation
His crime was murder, but committed under such intense provocation, real or imaginary, that he had the compassion of every one who knew his history.
— from Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 1 (of 2) by Harriet Martineau

carried us straight into Palermo
For two days afterwards we had a fresh north-easterly wind, which disturbed the sea very little, and would have carried us straight into Palermo.
— from The Admiral: A Romance of Nelson in the Year of the Nile by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen

consciously unconscious stare in princesses
A certain stony quality in this stereotyped gaze of theirs suggested a parallel to his memory; he had seen precisely that same cool, unruffled, consciously unconscious stare in princesses who had looked at him without beholding him in the far-away days of his life about the hotels of the Riviera.
— from Gloria Mundi by Harold Frederic

cravings urging speech Inspiring prayer
Not wiser of our mark than at the start, It surges like the wrath-faced father Sea To countering winds; a force blind-eyed, On endless rounds of aimless reach; Emotion for the source of pride, The grounds of faith in fixity Above our flesh; its cravings urging speech, Inspiring prayer; by turns a lump Swung on a time-piece, and by turns A quivering energy to jump For seats angelical: it shrinks, it yearns, Loves, loathes; is flame or cinders; lastly cloud Capping a sullen crater: and mankind We see cloud-capped, an army of the dark, Because of thy straight leadership declined; At heels of this or that delusive spark: Now when the multitudinous races press Elbow to elbow hourly more, A thickened host; when now we hear aloud Life for the very life implore A signal of a visioned mark; p. 63
— from Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith

carry us safely into port
“My friends,” said the captain, who in these circumstances had retained his presence of mind, “it is not St. Denis we must invoke, but Sainte-Adresse (St. Skill), for it is only she who at this crisis can carry us safely into port.”
— from Lighthouses and Lightships A Descriptive and Historical Account of Their Mode of Construction and Organization by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

composition under somewhat in place
with (1) acc., under, towards, until, after ; (2) with abl., under, beneath, at the foot of, close to ; in the reign of ; in composition, under, somewhat ; in place of ; underhandedly . subdō , see dō .
— from Selections from Viri Romae by C. F. L'Homond


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