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farm profits crops to

Your farm, profits, crops—to think how engross'd you are, To think there will still be farms, profits, crops, yet for you of what avail? 6 What will be will be well, for what is is well, To take interest is well, and not to take interest shall be well.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

feelings personal collisions took

The conflicting interests of these touting gentlemen being of a nature to irritate their feelings, personal collisions took place; and the Commons was even scandalized by our principal inveigler (who had formerly been in the wine trade, and afterwards in the sworn brokery line) walking about for some days with a black eye.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

falling pretty close to

Litiliti na kaáyu ang túbig sa bangà, The water in the jar is falling pretty close to the bottom.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Fryers Preachers church there

Richard Mountfiquit lived in King John’s time; and in the year 1213, was by the same king banished the realm into France, when peradventure King John caused his castle of Mountfiquit, amongst other castles of the barons, to be overthrown; the which after his return, might be by him again re-edified; for the total destruction thereof was about the year 1276, when Robert Kilwarby, archbishop of Canterbury, began the foundation of the Fryers Preachers church there, commonly called the Blacke Fryers, as appeareth by a charter the 4th of Edward I., wherein is declared that Gregorie de Rocksley, mayor of London, and the barons of the same city, granted and gave unto the said Archbishop Robert, two lanes or ways next the street of Baynard’s castle, and the tower of Mountfiquit, to be applied for the enlargement of the said church and place.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

fewest possible crossings taking

The puzzle is to show how they got over the river in the fewest possible crossings, taking their treasure with them.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

funeral procession causes the

A poor corpse is carried out of the town gate, and the funeral procession causes the caravan to halt.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

for poor children to

a bushell for them, and many other discourses, what and how many ways there are for poor children to get their livings honestly.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

fundamental physiological condition this

2 In order to understand this type, you must first be quite clear concerning its fundamental physiological condition: this condition is what I call great healthiness.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

felt perfectly certain that

I felt perfectly certain that he had smuggled my silver piece away, and had substituted a gold piece coated with silver for it.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Free Protesting Church took

We went first to St. Andrew’s, where the General Assembly met in 1843, and where the famous exodus of the Free Protesting Church took place,—one of the most important events in the modern history of the United Kingdom.
— from Penelope's Experiences in Scotland Being Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

from Procopius constitute the

The poem of Beowulf, an extract from Beda, and a similar extract from Procopius constitute the notices that continue the history—if so it can be called—of the Angles from the time of Ptolemy to the beginning of the seventh century, and even these are doubtful in their interpretation.
— from The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

first part contains the

The first part contains the history of this
— from On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Honoré Bourguignon

fleeting picture came to

A fleeting picture came to her of a rosy baby's face—Jean-Pierre's first child.
— from Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

fairy Perifirime called the

11 The story is briefly as follows:— In the kingdom of Chorassan there dwelt in an old magician's castle the good fairy Perifirime, called the "radiant fairy."
— from Life of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Otto Jahn

from Prince Conrad to

"Captains Boris and Jorian," she said sternly, "a messenger has come from Prince Conrad to say that the Muscovites press him hard.
— from Joan of the Sword Hand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

face pressed close to

The engine shrieked and whistled, the bell rang, and then with a jerk the train began to move, and Ruby looked out, with her face pressed close to the window, to see her father just as long as she possibly could.
— from Ruby at School by Paull, George A., Mrs.

from Port Conway to

The little ferry, again in requisition, took them over by squads, and they pushed from Port Conway to Bell Plain, which they reached in the middle of the afternoon.
— from The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by George Alfred Townsend

Flemish painter came to

NOTE II LEGEND OF THE ALTAR DEL PERDON Simon Peyrens, a Flemish painter, came to Mexico in the suite of the third Viceroy (1566-1568)
— from Legends of the City of Mexico by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

From Pera commence the

From Pera commence the numerous villages, separated only by name, which form a fringe of peculiarly light and fantastic architecture to the never-wearying Bosphorus.
— from Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean on board an American frigate by Nathaniel Parker Willis

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