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earth gathers enlightens sanctifies them

"I believe that not by my own reason or power can I believe on Jesus Christ my Lord, or come to him; but the Holy Ghost has called me through the gospel, enlightened me with his gifts, sanctified and kept me in the right faith, as he calls all Christian people on earth, gathers, enlightens, sanctifies them, and through Jesus keeps them in the right and only faith, among which Christian people he daily richly forgives all sins, to me and all believers, and at the last day will awaken me and all the dead, and to me and all believers in Christ will give eternal life.
— from Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

every good ensures Said the

You only work for a Special Class, We for the gain of the General Mass, Which every good ensures!” Said the Suffragist to the Socialist: “You underrate my Cause!
— from Suffrage Songs and Verses by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

existence generally engenders strange thoughts

"The effect of solitude I've no doubt," replied Una absently, "a solitary existence generally engenders strange thoughts."
— from The Man with a Secret: A Novel by Fergus Hume

every gesture every shadow that

The hour of the meal was as a dream to Charmides; a dream so vivid that, long years after, when he approached old age, he found himself able to recall with ease every look, every gesture, every shadow that passed before his eyes.
— from Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter

enjoyed great exemptions so that

Those whose patents were twenty-four years old could be elected as representatives; and from the moment of their creation they all enjoyed great exemptions; so that, as the lowest estimate reckoned their numbers at a hundred thousand, it is a matter for some wonder how the taxes to which they did not contribute produced any thing worth collecting.
— from The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Charles Duke Yonge

English Gentlemen Eleven said to

When, for example, during the last international match at Germantown, one of the English Gentlemen Eleven said to a lady, "We were told we should have a fine game at Philadelphia, but, really, I had no idea we should be honored by the presence of so many ladies," her reply expressed the sentiments of a numerous class: "Oh, I used to come to a match occasionally pour passer le temps .
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 by Various

enough good enough shouted the

" "Good enough, good enough!" shouted the firemen.
— from Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman

E GUEST embassy Strada Tudor

[1] (202) 232-4748 telephone: [1] (202) 332-4846, 4848, 4851 chancery: 1607 23rd Street NW, Washington, DC 20008 Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Michael E. GUEST embassy: Strada Tudor
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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