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for penitential abstinence and

He was noted for penitential abstinence, and was always through the grace of compunction, intent upon heavenly things.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

for pleasure and also

4. They were ready for pleasure, and also were willing ( volis ) to work energetically for-the-sake-of the new young world.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

first planted area a

The lawn, bounded on each side by a high wall, contained beyond the first planted area a bowling-green, and beyond the bowling-green a long terrace walk, backed by iron palisades, and commanding a view over them into the tops of the trees of the wilderness immediately adjoining.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Fano Pesaro Ancona and

It is transported by way of the Po to Ravenna, and is to be had in Fano, Pesaro, Ancona, and the other towns in that neighbourhood.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

fool point at another

I would cite more proofs, and a better author, but for the present, let one fool point at another.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

from plastic art and

Architecture has this distinction from plastic art and poetry: it does not give us a copy but the thing itself.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

foot particularly attracted attention

A numerous company of widows, dressed in white from head to foot, particularly attracted attention; they constituted a sort of sisterhood, observing certain rules, and gaining their livelihood by various descriptions of manual work.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

first prîmô abl at

Adv. facilis , easy facile (acc.), easily prîmus , first prîmum (acc.), first prîmô (abl.), at first Adj.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Filipino people are a

This explains also why the Filipino people are a people .
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

for Paris and among

The rough autumn weather set in at an exceptionally early date; people were all leaving their country houses for Paris, and, among them, the Avenarius family.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

FELL PITCHING ALLAN AHEAD

"OLD BOB FELL, PITCHING ALLAN AHEAD."
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 No 1, Nov 1877 by Various

for pity and as

Taxing our justice, with their double claim, As fools for pity, and as knaves for blame;
— from Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform, Complete Volume III of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

floor Polly and a

Over by the music machine Dot and a youth who's sportin' his first aviation mustache—one of them clipped eyebrow affairs—are tinklin' away on the mandolins with their heads close together, while in the middle of the floor Polly and a blond young gent who seems to be fairly well contented with himslf are practicin' some new foxtrot steps, with two other youngsters waitin' to cut in.
— from Torchy As A Pa by Sewell Ford

friend possesses an attraction

To me, the grave of a friend possesses an attraction, which, although tinged with deepest sadness, is wholly distinct from the horror with which the imagination so often invests it.
— from International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850 by Various

frequently pronounced aloud and

Labouring with such thoughts, I frequently pronounced aloud, and unconsciously, the name of Aurelia; and, as before in the Capuchin Convent, laughed and howled like a madman!
— from The Devil's Elixir, Vol. 2 (of 2) by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

few peasants and a

A few military posts, placed in four towns reduced to ashes, and in wooden houses rudely palisaded, were not sufficient to guard a road of ninety-three leagues: for we had not been able to establish more than a few echelons, and those at too great distances, on too long a line of operation, broken at every point where it was touched by the enemy; and for which a few peasants and a handful of Cossacks were quite sufficient.
— from History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de

few pence and are

Sometimes the prisoners get a few pence and are enabled to buy what they want from the venders who come there to sell.
— from Six Months in Mexico by Nellie Bly

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