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Further perfection consists more especially
2: Further, perfection consists more especially in the love of God than in the love of our neighbor.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

for protection caught my eagerly
She turned sharply and indignantly away from the fellow; and looking round as if for protection, caught my eagerly-fixed gaze.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

fuit præterea Cisterciensis Monachus et
Scholarum rector primùm erat, tum postea Archidiaconus, eruditione ac sapientia in omni negotio celebris: fuit præterea Cisterciensis Monachus, et Abbas Fordensis Coenobij, magnus suorum testimatione, ar vniuiersæ eorum societati quasi Antesignanus: fuit deinde Wigorniensis præsul, fuit et mortuo demùm Richardo Cantuariorum Archiepiscopus, ac totius Angliæ Primas.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

From Papa caught my eye
But "From Papa" caught my eye on a little parcel.
— from Daisy by Susan Warner

familiar phrase caught my eye
Suddenly a familiar phrase caught my eye.
— from The Flying Saucers are Real by Donald E. (Donald Edward) Keyhoe

Frances Power Cobbe more especially
One turns with eagerness to the Life of Frances Power Cobbe , more especially when it bears the honoured imprimatur of Bentley .
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, October 13, 1894 by Various

first place concerned my external
The examination in the first place concerned my external life, but should soon direct itself towards my internal one.
— from Withered Leaves: A Novel. Vol. II. (of III) by Rudolf von Gottschall

fue por cierto maravillosa exclaims
[53] "Cosa fue por cierto maravillosa," exclaims Pulgar, in his Glosa on the Mingo Revulgo, "que lo que muchos hombres, y grandes senores no se acordaron á hacer en muchos años, sola una muger , con su trabajo, y gobernacion lo hizo en poco tiempo."
— from The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by William Hickling Prescott

from Pokrovsky contains many errors
This amazing letter which plainly shows the terms upon which the Empress of Russia was with the convicted criminal from Pokrovsky, contains many errors in Russian, for the German wife of the Tsar has never learnt to write Russian correctly, and reads as follows— “Holy Father!
— from Rasputin the Rascal Monk Disclosing the Secret Scandal of the Betrayal of Russia by the Mock-Monk Grichka and the Consequent Ruin of the Romanoffs. With official documents revealed and recorded for the first time. by William Le Queux


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