One evening, when he took the pains to go to Middlemarch on purpose to have a chat with Lydgate as of old, he noticed in him an air of excited effort quite unlike his usual easy way of keeping silence or breaking it with abrupt energy whenever he had anything to say. — from Middlemarch by George Eliot
else within our knowledge save
But doubtless the inclusion of such instances is due to an attempt, conscious or unconscious, on the part of the writers who have taken their stand on the side of great antiquity to so frame the definition of armory that it shall include everything heraldic, and due perhaps somewhat to the half unconscious Page 3 {3} reasoning that these mythical animals, and more especially the peculiarly heraldic positions they are depicted in, which nowadays we only know as part of armory, and which exist nowhere else within our knowledge save within the charmed circle of heraldry, must be evidence of the great antiquity of that science or art, call it which you will. — from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
exact way of knowing since
I don't have an exact way of knowing since there aren't gadgets and dials in my mind but it seems to me I can support a lot more of my weight. — from Address: Centauri by F. L. (Floyd L.) Wallace
effective way of keeping submarines
Individual torpedo-nets for ships have rather gone out of fashion, but the most effective way of keeping submarines out of a harbor is to close its entrance with 171 booms and nettings. — from The Story of the Submarine by Farnham Bishop
ejected when our king submitted
And their champion, Bellarmine, has told the world, in his Apology, that the king of England is a vassal to the pope, ratione, directi dominii , [14] and that he holds in villanage of his Roman landlord; which is no new claim put in for England: our chronicles are his authentic witnesses, that King John was deposed by the same plea, and Philip Augustus admitted tenant; and, which makes the more for Bellarmine, the French king was again ejected when our king submitted to the church, and the crown received under the sordid condition of a vassalage. — from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 10 by John Dryden
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