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from a seat in the

The first ideas which generally suggest themselves, for the cure of Parliamentary disorders, are, to shorten the duration of Parliaments; and to disqualify all, or a great number of placemen, from a seat in the House of Commons.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

figure and speak in them

Don Quixote made answer, "Thou must know, Sancho, that this bark is plainly, and without the possibility of any alternative, calling and inviting me to enter it, and in it go to give aid to some knight or other person of distinction in need of it, who is no doubt in some sore strait; for this is the way of the books of chivalry and of the enchanters who figure and speak in them.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

find a satisfaction in the

But that other men will take account of it, and will find a satisfaction in the consideration of the wild greatness of nature (that certainly cannot be ascribed to its aspect, which is rather terrifying), I am not absolutely justified in supposing.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

for a space I too

With thanks I took the stool; but now, for a space, I, too, was mute.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

fields and so in that

This morning was he out of his mind, and in his fancy we were boy and girl again and wandering in the happy fields; and so in that innocent glad converse wandered he far and farther, still lightly gossiping, and entered into those other fields we know not of, and was shut away from mortal sight.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

first actual settlement in the

The first actual settlement in the present township was made in May, 1837, on the west side of Jefferson Prairie, by Stephen E. Downer and Daniel Tasker, and their wives, on the southeast side of the prairie.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

forward and shout in the

But he managed to lean forward and shout in the ear of the Saw-Horse: "Keep still, you fool!
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

France a seat in the

In France a seat in the Chamber of Deputies may be taken only at twenty-five and in the Senate at forty.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

figure appeared suspicious in the

To Ivan Ilyitch this figure appeared suspicious in the extreme.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

false and strained in this

But, in fact, there was sometimes no little insincerity, and much that was false and strained in this practice.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

finished a sentence in the

Jimmie had just finished a sentence in the “pen” for safe-cracking at the time he landed the job with the Journal.
— from Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 by Various

faintness and supported into the

And now Lady Bassett, who had borne up so bravely, was seized with a deadly faintness, and supported into the house.
— from A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade

for a swim in the

Many times during my early school days I yielded to the tempter and played truant and ofttimes concluded that it was too hot to study and yielded to the suggestion to go for a swim in the pond, regardless of consequences.
— from Riches of Grace: A Compilation of Experiences in the Christian Life A Narration of Trials and Victories Along the Way by E. E. (Enoch Edwin) Byrum

form and structure in the

It is the more necessary to do this, because there is now a tendency to minimise the action of natural selection in the production of organic forms, and to set up in its place certain fundamental principles of variation or laws of growth, which it is urged are the real originators of the several lines of development, and of most of the variety of form and structure in the vegetable and animal kingdoms.
— from Darwinism (1889) An exposition of the theory of natural selection, with some of its applications by Alfred Russel Wallace

forward and see if there

Go forward, and see if there are any people there.
— from Sunshine Bill by William Henry Giles Kingston

felt a satisfaction in the

In the course of a long speech he warmed to his view of the subject, until, at last, in the fervour of his eloquence, he burst into the following: “He believed that the bull felt a satisfaction in the contest, not less so than the hound did when he heard the sound of the horn which summoned him to the chase.
— from The Dawn of the XIXth Century in England: A social sketch of the times by John Ashton

forward and speaking in the

she asked, leaning forward and speaking in the hushed voice with which some women approach a tabooed subject.
— from The Happy Family by B. M. Bower

Fire and Sword in the

I would recommend those who entertain any fears of Armenians being able to defend themselves against Kurds or Tartars to read [Pg 65] Villari's Fire and Sword in the Caucasus and Moore's The Orient Express .
— from Armenia and the War by A. P. (Avetoon Pesak) Hacobian

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