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enough and rub long enough the

If I soap it enough, and rub long enough, the shirt must come clane at last.”
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

eggs are rarely laid earlier than

White-necked storks often begin nest-building about the middle of May, but eggs are rarely laid earlier than the second week of June.
— from A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Douglas Dewar

en as repentant love Ere to

The clouds weep o’er the fallen world, E’en as repentant love; Ere, to the blessed breeze unfurled, They fade in light above.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1, January 1849 by Various

elegant and reflective literature especially tends

The rapid spread of popular education, in the middle of last century, was responsible for a great many aberrations of taste, and the works of the two most English of Englishmen, Defoe and Hogarth, were judged to be hardly fitting for polite society, as we may see from Lamb's Essay on Hogarth, and from an early edition of Chambers's "Cyclopaedia of English Literature" (1843), where we are told: "Nor is it needful to show how elegant and reflective literature, especially, tends to moralise, to soften, and to adorn the soul and life of man."
— from The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton by Daniel Defoe

Edmonson and remained long enough to

Again on the move, and at noon halted near the town of Edmonson, and remained long enough to feed horses and get dinner.
— from Our Battery; Or, The Journal of Company B, 1st O.V.A. by O. P. (Orlando Phelps) Cutter

entered a room large enough to

Instantly the shelves folded up, a door opened in the wall, and they entered a room large enough to hold fifty people with ease.
— from The House of the Combrays by G. Lenotre

Essen A Royal Liar Explaining The

Paying the Price How Von Bohlen was Chosen The War Lord's Day in Essen A Royal Liar Explaining "The Day" Bertha's Wedding Day
— from The Secret Memoirs of Bertha Krupp From the Papers and Diaries of Chief Gouvernante Baroness D'Alteville by Henry W. (Henry William) Fischer

evidence and repeated laughter encouraged the

The little unobserved details of the infantile manner, its occasional abstractions and recalls to the subject, the catching of the breath, and a myriad other peculiarities, were all in evidence, and repeated laughter encouraged the story-teller.
— from Clever Betsy: A Novel by Clara Louise Burnham

en as repentant love Ere to

The clouds weep o'er the fallen world, E'en as repentant love; Ere, to the blessed breeze unfurl'd, They fade in light above.
— from Birds and Nature, Vol. 08, No. 2, September 1900 Illustrated by Color Photography by Various

embrace a religious life employ the

I intend her to embrace a religious life; employ the influence of your wise counsels to predispose her to it.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine—Volume 62, No. 386, December, 1847 by Various

ease A royal life exposed to

Thus he, who, prodigal of blood and ease, A royal life exposed to winds and seas, At once contending with the waves and fire, And heading danger in the wars of Tyre, Inglorious now forsakes his native sand, And like an exile quits the promised land!
— from The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden

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