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for chocolate she says

Very likely when asked for chocolate she says: "How nice of you!
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

for comrade swiftly slain

And there and then and bathed by the rising sun, my son in his grave, in his rude-dug grave I deposited, Ending my vigil strange with that, vigil of night and battle-field dim, Vigil for boy of responding kisses, (never again on earth responding,) Vigil for comrade swiftly slain, vigil I never forget, how as day brighten'd, I rose from the chill ground and folded my soldier well in his blanket, And buried him where he fell.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

fundamental confusion Spencer signalizes

Besides this fundamental confusion, Spencer signalizes others which aided the action of the first from time to time.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

found curious survivals some

Yet I found curious survivals; some of the figures of my old life seemed to be waiting for me in the new.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

Fort Clat Sop Stands

The River on which Fort Clat Sop Stands we now call Netul, this being the name by which the Clatsops Call it.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

For cognates see SkD

For cognates, see SkD (s.v. paltry ).
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

fond caresses she scarcely

But to the girl's surprise, Catherine did not return her fond caresses; she scarcely seemed to recognize her, but drew back averting her gaze, as if afraid of meeting those pleading eyes.
— from The Threatening Eye by E. F. (Edward Frederick) Knight

face cells so small

"How, as Huber asks, can we comprehend the mode in which such a crowd of laborers, occupied at the same time on the edge of the comb, could agree to give it the same curvature from one extremity to the other; or how could they arrange together to construct on one face cells so small, while on the other they imparted to them such enlarged dimensions?"
— from The Dawn of Reason; or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James, Jr.

fastidious CM see Skeymowse

loth, fastidious, CM; see Skeymowse .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

fourteen children seven sons

By his second wife Cicely Bonville, the Marquis is said to have had the large family of fifteen (Leland makes it only fourteen) children, seven sons and eight daughters.
— from The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by W. H. Hamilton (William Henry Hamilton) Rogers

first carts sat six

In each of the first carts sat six invalid criminal convicts, close packed.
— from Resurrection by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

flats crossing several small

The journey today was over stony hills and flats, crossing several small creeks from the more remote hills, some running tributaries of Burke Creek for twelve and a half miles, and for three and three-quarter miles further over similar country, but more flat as we are now approaching the creek, and camped on the outside of a flat with some water and a fair supply of feed.
— from McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia by John McKinlay

Fawkes Catesby sat sullenly

Keyes and the others adding their persuasions to those of Fawkes, Catesby sat sullenly down, and a profound silence ensued.
— from Guy Fawkes; or, The Gunpowder Treason: An Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth

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