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friend like Othello calumniated his

If he merely heard a friend like Othello calumniated, his hand flew to his sword; and though he restrained himself he almost regretted his own virtue ( i. ii. 1-10).
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

future lords of creation have

It is enough that from such beginnings famine, disease, and mutual slaughter, fit nurses of the future lords of creation, have gradually evolved, after infinite travail, a race with conscience enough to feel that it is vile, and intelligence enough to know that it is insignificant. . . .
— from The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry

from land of certain herbes

5. sets down that in the first discoverie of Christopher Columbus , they found as of great green and yellow medowes in the main sea, more then two hundred leagues from land, of certain herbes called Salgazzi , which go floting on the top of the waters, as the winds carry them from one side to another.
— from A Discovrse of Fire and Salt Discovering Many Secret Mysteries as well Philosophicall, as Theologicall by Blaise de Vigenère

from loss of consciousness he

One day, recovering from loss of consciousness, he asked Pere Tellier to give him absolution for all his sins.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

first layer of cotton had

After the first layer of cotton had been removed it became necessary to drain off part of the water that filled the hold.
— from The Survivors of the Chancellor by Jules Verne

fellows like ourselves could handle

It grew so rapidly that it was about as much as two young fellows like ourselves could handle.
— from The Story of Wool by Sara Ware Bassett

few leagues of Calais had

This fortified city, within a few leagues of Calais, had cost the English nation heavily in blood and gold to gain, and still more heavily to hold, but its value to England commercially and politically was beyond measure.
— from The Touchstone of Fortune Being the Memoir of Baron Clyde, Who Lived, Thrived, and Fell in the Doleful Reign of the So-called Merry Monarch, Charles II by Charles Major

fair land of Canonicus his

It is a pleasant spot now, even with the pent-up city around it; it must then have been a delicious resting-place for the weary exile, for below him were the bright waters of the Narraganset, beyond which arose the gentle slopes and more lofty hills of the fair land of Canonicus, his friend and protector.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

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