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edge with one leg down the

There was a clicking of the iron fastening, the window was thrust up higher and higher, till it was to the full extent of the ratchet support, and then by passing one arm over the light cross-beam, which divided the opening in two, Don was able to raise himself, and throw his leg over the front of the opening, so that the next minute he was sitting on the edge with one leg down the sloping roof, and the other hanging inside, but in a very awkward position, on account of the broad skylight.
— from The Adventures of Don Lavington: Nolens Volens by George Manville Fenn

eyes wide open looking down the

He looked, but could see nothing; and she stood trembling and her eyes wide open, looking down the way to the ford of Ballinacoola.
— from The Lilac Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

eye was only less dreaded than

In and out the house, and through the precincts of the farm-yard, or "barton," as he called it, the master's eye was only less dreaded than his tongue, his tongue than his hand.
— from Katerfelto: A Story of Exmoor by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville

enough words of Latin derivation to

The style of these writings is in itself captivating; the vocabulary containing enough words of Latin derivation to rescue it from the Boeotian harshness typical of this age.
— from Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

explain why our Lord did this

How much less can one explain why our Lord did this and that, who was both man and God.
— from The Good News of God by Charles Kingsley

Essay was of later date than

I suppose this Essay was of later date than "Beauty," or "Illusions."
— from Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

every walk of life discussing the

From that day to this he has listened to men and women in every walk of life discussing the relation of heredity to environment in determining human traits.
— from Being Well-Born: An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. (Michael Frederic) Guyer

English work of later date the

A much better case however occurs in an English work of later date, the Vitae Duorum Offarum.
— from The Heroic Age by H. Munro (Hector Munro) Chadwick

evil which Omnipotence laid down Tupper

"God in thus much is bounded, that the evil hath he left unto an other ; and that Dark Other hath usurped the evil which Omnipotence laid down."— Tupper's Book of Thoughts , p. 45.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

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