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desire education certainly not enough to
Arriving at the island of Nevis, she found that the natives did not especially desire education, certainly not enough to pay for it, and there was no family requiring a governess.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen by Elbert Hubbard

doctrine Elisabeth could not eradicate the
Although she had strayed from the old paths of dogma and doctrine, Elisabeth could not eradicate the inborn Methodist nature which hungers and thirsts after righteousness as set forth in sermons.
— from The Farringdons by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler

dim eyes could not endure the
'That is because their dim eyes could not endure the full light of the sun.'
— from At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes

did either come near enough to
The destroyers moved in ever widening, and then contracting, circles, but not once did either come near enough to pick up a glimpse of that one face that held occasionally above the rolling waves.
— from Dave Darrin After the Mine Layers; Or, Hitting the Enemy a Hard Naval Blow by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

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