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friend Lidia Ivanovna noticing that

Alexey Alexandrovitch did not know that his friend Lidia Ivanovna, noticing that he was not as well as usual that year, had begged the doctor to go and examine him.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

for love is not to

Whilst they are absolutely dependent on their husbands, they will be cunning, mean, and selfish, and the men who can be gratified by the fawning fondness, of spaniel-like affection, have not much delicacy, for love is not to be bought, in any sense of the word, its silken wings are instantly shrivelled up when any thing beside a return in kind is sought.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

for learning inures not to

What is it fateful woman, so blear, hardly human? Why wag your head with turban bound, yellow, red and green? Are the things so strange and marvelous you see or have seen? H2 anchor Not Youth Pertains to Me Not youth pertains to me, Nor delicatesse, I cannot beguile the time with talk, Awkward in the parlor, neither a dancer nor elegant, In the learn'd coterie sitting constrain'd and still, for learning inures not to me, Beauty, knowledge, inure not to me—yet there are two or three things inure to me, I have nourish'd the wounded and sooth'd many a dying soldier, And at intervals waiting or in the midst of camp, Composed these songs.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

friend likely is not the

Nay, my friend, 'likely' is not the word; for if he was a good citizen, the inference is certain.
— from Gorgias by Plato

few lectures in neighboring towns

" She went out for a few lectures in neighboring towns, and at the Dansville Sanitarium was presented by the patients with a purse of $62.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

For life is not the

For life is not the same thing as virtue, since not every life, but a wisely regulated life, is virtue; and yet, while there can be life of some kind without virtue, there cannot be virtue without life.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

for Lisbon I never told

had sent me as a token, by a recruit, just before he set out for Lisbon— —I never told your honour that piteous story yet—here Trim wiped his eyes a third time.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

first lessons in navigating the

To birds man is indebted for his first lessons in navigating the water as well as for his ideas about airships.
— from Our Domestic Birds: Elementary Lessons in Aviculture by John H. (John Henry) Robinson

future life is needed to

A future life is needed to adjust These ill-proportioned, wide discrepancies Between the spirit and its frame of dust.
— from Poems of Pleasure by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

first look is necessary to

The first look is necessary to define the person of the individual one meets so as to avoid it in passing.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

future life is not to

It is enough for him to be sure that it is wholly determined by mechanical causes, and that supernatural agencies are excluded. {357} The soul being composed of atoms which are scattered at death, a future life is not to be thought of.
— from A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace

Frisian line is narrower than

The Frisian line is narrower than the Batavian, whilst when we reach the Elbe the Saxons appear on the sea-coast.
— from The English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

Field Listing icon next to

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— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

ferryman landed I noticed that

As the old ferryman landed I noticed that his boat was full of stock speculators, and that the Devil looked utterly disgusted when they stepped into his dominions.
— from Letters of Peregrine Pickle by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

following legend is narrated to

Members of the Ekopothiriya sept are regarded as low in the social scale, and the following legend is narrated to account for this.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 2 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

fond love I never told

Yet my fond love I never told, But kept it, as the miser keeps, In his rude hut, his hoarded heaps Of gleaming gems, and glittering gold: Gloating in secret o'er the prize, He fears to show to other eyes; And so passed many months away, Till once I heard a comrade say:— "To-morrow brings her bridal day; Mazelli leaves the greenwood bower, Where she has grown its fairest flower, To bless, with her bright, sunny smile, A stranger from a distant isle, Whom love has lured across the sea, O'er hill and glen, through wood and wild, Far from his lordly home, to be Lord of the forest's fairest child.
— from Mazelli, and Other Poems by George W. Sands

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