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from dignitaries in Church

And what is a still greater novelty, the mass do not now take their opinions from dignitaries in Church or State, from ostensible leaders, or from books.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

fashion demands is composure

All that fashion demands is composure, and self-content.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

freckled discolored imperfect c

Adj. pitted, freckled, discolored; imperfect &c. 651; blobber-lipped, bloodshot; injured &c. (deteriorated) 659.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

for definite industrial callings

This principle is violated when the attempt is made to fit individuals in advance for definite industrial callings, selected not on the basis of trained original capacities, but on that of the wealth or social status of parents.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

few days I cannot

There must be twenty-five thousand citizens, men, women, and children, in Savannah, that must also be fed, and how he is to feed them beyond a few days I cannot imagine.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

freedom does indeed concern

The question of the possibility of freedom does indeed concern psychology; but, as it rests upon dialectical arguments of pure reason, its solution must engage the attention of transcendental philosophy.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

from deep inward conviction

The precepts and doctrines which are laid down there are the most perfect exposition, sprung from deep inward conviction of what I have presented as the denial of the will.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

fantastic dream I cannot

But whether he himself saw, or only thought he saw, whether he himself was the possessor of an inestimable privilege or the victim of a fantastic dream, I cannot pretend to guess.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

for down it came

So we went on silently until we were halfway to the menhir, and then we saw that there was yet another way into this place, for across the water a jutting wall of rock had hidden a gorge that had surely been cleft by water, for down it came a little stream that seemed to sink into the turf so soon as it reached it.
— from A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

fifteen days I completed

In fifteen days I completed it, and made it the high-place of my kingdom.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4: Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

fishing divers Indians came

A letter from the Council in Virginia to the Virginia Company in London in 1610 shows that such favors were returned: Whilst we were fishing divers Indians came down from the woods unto us and ...
— from The Bounty of the Chesapeake: Fishing in Colonial Virginia by James Wharton

few days in consequence

The August No. of this Journal will be delayed a few days in consequence of the illness of the Editor.
— from The Cholera Gazette, Vol. I. No. 4. Wednesday, August 1st, 1832. by Various

for death In childlike

Called from thy hearth and home,—from her, The last bud on thy household tree, The last dear one to minister In duty and in love to thee, From all which nature holdeth dear, Feeble with years and worn with pain, To seek our distant land again, Bound in the spirit, yet unknowing The things which should befall thee here, Whether for labor or for death, In childlike trust serenely going To that last trial of thy faith!
— from Personal Poems I Part 1 from Volume IV of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

former days is clearly

What seems to have been a usual route in former days is clearly indicated on Nicollet's map.
— from The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 1 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7. by Zebulon Montgomery Pike

few directions in Chinook

He quickly gave her a few directions in Chinook, and told her what to do at Dingan’s if she got there first.
— from Northern Lights, Complete by Gilbert Parker

fully described in canto

He had two sons (twins) by Caro, viz., Methos ( drunkenness ) and Gluttony, both fully described in canto vii.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

for defraying its current

The upper story has four separate rooms, finished for renting to associations of colored people, with a view to paying whatever debt may remain on the building, and for defraying its current expenses;--and it is hoped that, at some future day, a [Pg 48] reading room and a circulating library for colored people may also be located here--the whole of it combining a most respectable, central, commodious Colored People's Home .
— from A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, A Colored Man Written by Himself, At The Age of Fifty-Four by Noah Davis

found difficulty in checking

The people in the galleries broke forth in prolonged applause, which the voice of the Vice President found difficulty in checking.
— from Bleeding Armenia: Its history and horrors under the curse of Islam by Augustus Warner Williams

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