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from Highbury to Enscombe the

No suspicious flourishes now of apology or concern; it was the language of real feeling towards Mrs. Weston; and the transition from Highbury to Enscombe, the contrast between the places in some of the first blessings of social life was just enough touched on to shew how keenly it was felt, and how much more might have been said but for the restraints of propriety.—The charm of her own name was not wanting.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

for him to extort the

But it was easier for him to extort the praise of the Infidels, than to preserve the love of his subjects and associates.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

fingers harder than ever the

"For some one else to undo," muttered back the old man, plying his fingers harder than ever, the knot being now nearly completed.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

for him to engage the

The Carthaginian admiral saw what he had done; and determined that it was unadvisable for him to engage the enemy, or bring his ships near such a dangerous place.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

for her to enjoy the

She thought of the struggles and the weariness that might lie before them in the rest of their life's journey, when she would be away from them, and know nothing of what was befalling them; and the pressure of this thought soon became too strong for her to enjoy the unresponding stillness of the moonlit fields.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

for him to exceed than

The death of Athanasius was not expressly commanded; but the præfect of Egypt understood that it was safer for him to exceed, than to neglect, the orders of an irritated master.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

for her to embrace the

She was not an unwilling bride; she thought it right for her to embrace the avenger of her parent.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

for him to enter their

A noncom gestured for him to enter their carryall.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

from her thoughts even the

The sun, which was glowing through the crevices in her shutters, and turning the damask curtains crimson, reassured her to such an extent that everything vanished from her thoughts, even the stone.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

few hours to enable tourists

Here the steamer comes to anchor for a few hours, to enable tourists to land and examine the tunnel.
— from Due North; or, Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Maturin Murray Ballou

from her the eyes that

A long sigh broke from his lips, and, turning from her the eyes that had so wistfully searched and found not, they went wandering drearily hither and thither as if seeking the hope whose loss made life seem desolate.
— from Moods by Louisa May Alcott

forced him to escape to

In 1800, Bonaparte advanced him to a captain-general at Guadeloupe, an island which his plots, eight years before, had involved in all the horrors of anarchy, and where, when he now attempted to restore order, his former instruments rose against him and forced him to escape to one of your islands—I believe Dominico.
— from Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 7 by Lewis Goldsmith

for having thus entered the

He bowed politely, and apologized for having thus entered the house without being announced; but he found all the doors open, and no servant had come up to him.
— from The Freebooters: A Story of the Texan War by Gustave Aimard

for him the expression the

The beholder was pleased by the exhibition of the painter's skill; but in so far as the work did not reveal a significance or beauty in these objects which the artist had seen and the beholder had not, it fell short of being a work of art Just as the key of the Nuremberg craftsman was a work of art in that it was for him the expression, the rendering actual, of a new beauty it was given him to conceive, so only that is art which makes manifest a beauty that is new, a beauty that is truly born of the artist's own spirit.
— from The Enjoyment of Art by Carleton Eldredge Noyes

for him to endeavor to

Was it not natural for him to endeavor to convince distillers that he had plenty of protection to sell? Was it not natural for him to make the distillers believe, "If you will give me ten dollars a barrel you will have perfect protection"?
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

forbidding him to enter that

Whereupon Tom returned; but as he crossed the threshold he heard a voice “forbidding him to enter that house, or any other place where his father’s calling was exercised.”
— from Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

fearless had the effect that

Had he made the motion of an arm, they might have ridden or shot him down, but the simple quietness of him as he sat with hands crossed on the pommel of his saddle, face calm and set, eyes unwavering and fearless, had the effect that nothing else he could have done would have brought about—and they swerved on either side of him, while the rest swerved, too, like sheep, one stirrup brushing his, as they swept by.
— from The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by Fox, John, Jr.

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