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dreaded are now seen by you
The forces of Nature, once so dark and so dreaded, are now seen by you to be intelligible, orderly, and capable of adaptation to the purposes of man.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1899 Volume LIV, No. 5, March 1899 by Various

days and nights straight before you
Ride seven days and nights straight before you, and on the eighth morning you will see a great fire.
— from The Crimson Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

daylight and no shell blow yet
"Heigh, wurra can be come over de daylight, and no shell blow yet?"[ 1 ] [ 1 ] The gangs are turned in at dinner-time by the sounding of a conch shell.
— from The Cruise of the Midge (Vol. 2 of 2) by Michael Scott

doing and not simply because you
Do not give them in emergencies, without a good reason for so doing, and not simply because you feel you must do something, for in some emergencies they may do a great deal of harm, and perhaps, a fatal injury.
— from How to Care for the Insane: A Manual for Nurses by William D. Granger

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