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few instants later the

A few instants later the platform was quivering, and with puffs of steam hanging low in the air from the frost, the engine rolled up, with the lever of the middle wheel rhythmically moving up and down, and the stooping figure of the engine-driver covered with frost.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

fullest individual liberty the

A new sense of freedom and joy is pervading the hearts of the people as their individual faculties are awakened, and they discover, in a social life which permits alike of the completest concerted action and of [142] the fullest individual liberty, the long-sought-for means of reconciliation between order and freedom—between the well-being of the individual and of society.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

fortunes irrevocably linked together

So persons vainly reason when their minds are already made up and their fortunes irrevocably linked together.
— from The Republic by Plato

Finite is lesse than

For it is not a signe of the Will to Honour God, to attribute to him lesse than we can; and Finite, is lesse than we can; because to Finite, it is easie to adde more.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

friend I love them

The great laws take and effuse without argument, I am of the same style, for I am their friend, I love them quits and quits, I do not halt and make salaams.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

find it like that

Demi felt of his back, as if expecting to find it like that of the watch, and then gravely remarked,— "I dess Dod does it when I's asleep."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

father is likely to

It is evident that Cordelia knows well what mercy her father is likely to receive from her sisters; that is the reason of her weeping.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Farfrae I like thee

I'll agree to 'em willingly and 'ithout a word of gainsaying; for, hang it, Farfrae, I like thee well!”
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

fact is likewise the

This fact is likewise the symbol of a long line of action, wherein it is part of the divine plan to make the perpetual restlessness of error subserve the complete exhibition of truth.
— from The Formation of Christendom, Volume II by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

fall in love Thomas

And that explains the reason why Despite the gods above, The young are often doomed to die, The old to fall in love"; Thomas Ashe, The Lost Eros; Coventry Patmore, The Unknown Eros.
— from The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855) by Thomas Bulfinch

flattened internodes long tendrils

Canes long, numerous, slender, dark reddish-brown; nodes enlarged, flattened; internodes long; tendrils intermittent, trifid or bifid.
— from Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

for it like the

“And comes for it like the cattle to the scrubbing-stones,” said the Skipjack.
— from Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Fu in later times

In 771 B.C. the Emperor fled east to his "east capital" (founded 300 years before that date), which then became the sole metropolis, called Loh (from the river on which it stands); it is also marked with a cross inside a circle and is practically the modern Ho-nan Fu; it has, off and on, been the capital of all China, alternately with Si-ngan Fu, in later times.
— from Ancient China Simplified by Edward Harper Parker

for in less than

No beggar could ever have done business quicker, for in less than a quarter of an hour, I was finished, having received fivepence halfpenny and two parcels of food.
— from Beggars by W. H. (William Henry) Davies

freely in less than

Upon this hint, instead of using iron , I introduced a pot of liver of sulphur into a jar of nitrous air, and presently found, that what I had before done by means of iron in six weeks, or two months, I could do by liver of sulphur (in consequence, no doubt, of its giving its phlogiston more freely) in less than twenty-four hours, especially when the process was kept warm.
— from Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Joseph Priestley

fruit I learnt that

Having secured her attention by means of a larger remuneration than the nominal price she asked for the fruit, I learnt that there was a magnifico stabilimento at Savignone, a village some three miles off: I could have a conveyance, or she herself would show me the way, as she was going to the village.
— from North Italian Folk: Sketches of Town and Country Life by Alice Vansittart Strettel Carr

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