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forth into singular comico

Thus however has the reader seen, in an unexpected arena, on this last day of February 1791, the Three long-contending elements of French Society, dashed forth into singular comico-tragical collision; acting and reacting openly to the eye.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

for in some Compositae

It might have been thought that the development of the ray-petals, by drawing nourishment from the reproductive organs causes their abortion; but this can hardly be the sole case, for in some Compositae the seeds of the outer and inner florets differ, without any difference in the corolla.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

feet I sat cross

I mounted into the window-seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross-legged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

for it seems clearly

For when it is said to be wrong to do harm to any one, we do not commonly mean only what he thinks harm, but what really is so, though he may think it a benefit; for it seems clearly a crime for me to give any one what I know to be poison, even though he may be stubbornly convinced that it is wholesome food.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

form is so common

This form is so common—so nearly universal, in fact—that if she had used 'whither' instead of 'where,' I think it would have sounded like an affectation.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

forename its sacred character

The Individual Totem and the Sexual Totem I.—Individual totem as a forename; its sacred character—Individual totem as personal emblem—Bonds between the man and his individual totem—Relations with the collective totem 157 II.—The totems of sexual groups—Resemblances and differences with the collective and individual totems—Their tribal nature 165 CHAPTER V Origins of these Beliefs Critical Examination of Preceding Theories I.—Theories which derive totemism from a previous religion: from the ancestor cult (Wilken and Tylor); from the nature cult (Jevons)—Criticism of these theories 168 II.—Theories which derive collective totemism from individual totemism—Origins attributed by these theories to the individual totem (Frazer, Boas, Hill Tout)—Improbability of these hypotheses—Reasons showing the priority of the collective totem 172 III.—Recent theory of Frazer: conceptional and local totemism—The begging of the question upon which it rests—The religious character of the totem is denied—Local totemism is not primitive 180 IV.—Theory of Lang: that the totem is only a name—Difficulties in explaining the religious character of totemic practices from this point of view 184 V.—All these theories explain totemism only by postulating other religious notions anterior to it 186 CHAPTER VI Origins of these Beliefs —( continued )
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

force in social control

In secondary groups and in the city, fashion tends to take the place of custom, and public opinion rather than the mores becomes the dominant force in social control.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

from its small corner

‘We have among us little companies of people, each of which ‘keeps its poet,’ and not content with that, proclaims from its small corner, with a most conceited air, that its poet is the man of the age.’
— from The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Various

factor in settling connubial

Her great-grandmother had been born on a soil where the broomstick is a prominent factor in settling connubial differences; and if it occurred to her at this juncture, it is a satisfactory proof of the theory of atavism.
— from The Village Watch-Tower by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Falling into Spirit Canyon

Falling into Spirit Canyon is like getting dragged by a horse.
— from The Quirt by B. M. Bower

face in silence calls

Her face in silence calls me; she calls me wholly.
— from Light by Henri Barbusse

first into such companionship

Of this kind were his musings; nor, amid them all, did one thought obtrude of the cause which threw him first into such companionship, nor of that mission, to discharge which was the end and object of his coming.
— from The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Charles James Lever

forwarding its successive changes

Marat, the third of this infernal triumvirate, had attracted the attention of the lower orders, by the violence of his sentiments in the journal which he conducted from the commencement of the revolution, upon such principles that it took the lead in forwarding its successive changes.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

from its surroundings considered

And the method has been that of minute examination of a specimen from the plant or animal world, utterly detached from its surroundings, considered by the docile child in parts, such as leaves, stem, roots, petals, and uses; or head, wings, legs, tail, and habits.
— from The Child under Eight by E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray

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