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fresco physiology relieving such
Besides its tonic and al fresco physiology, relieving such as this, the poetry of the future will take on character in a more important respect.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

full particulars regarding some
Boirouge obtained of the famous physician, her relative, a gratuitous consultation by giving him full particulars regarding some pretended nervous trouble of the stomach, in which complaint he recognized a periodic dyspepsia.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

for pure rational science
No special content, however, is presupposed, but merely the existence of a content generally, and so logic as a whole may fairly pass for pure rational science.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

first place Ranjoor Singh
So, perhaps because we all begged for him, or perhaps because he so intended in the first place, Ranjoor Singh relented.
— from Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy

fruitful plain Rich streams
The rival of her crown, and of her woes, And either Henry[7] there, The murder'd saint, and the majestic lord That broke the bonds of Rome,— (Their tears, their little triumphs o'er, Their human passions now no more, Save Charity, that glows beyond the tomb,) 50 All that on Granta's fruitful plain Rich streams of regal bounty pour'd, And bade those awful fanes and turrets rise, To hail their Fitzroy's festal morning come; And thus they speak in soft accord The liquid language of the skies: V. 'What is grandeur, what is power?
— from Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Thomas Gray

from Phoebicius replied she
"It was a present from Phoebicius," replied she.
— from Homo Sum — Volume 04 by Georg Ebers

flower pot rounded side
If they have no cracks or holes for drainage, bore some and partly cover them with pieces of an old flower pot, rounded side up.
— from The Child's Rainy Day Book by Mary White

for printing rollers Size
Joiner’s glue; Material for the best variety of joiner’s glue 146 How to make and use glue; Holding power of glue 147 Cologne glue 148 Russian glue; Additions by means of which the color and opaqueness are imparted to this variety of glue 149 Patent glue; Gilder’s glue; Superior article of gilder’s glue; Size glue and parchment glue; Paris glue 150 xi Liquid glues; Receipts for liquid glues 151 Preparation of saccharate of lime; Steam-glue; Russian steam-glue; Pale steam-glue; Dark steam-glue 152 Chrome glue; Glue for attaching leather to metal; Glue for leather, paper, etc. 153 Glue for parchment paper in making sausage skins 154 Tungstic glue; Indestructible mass for the manufacture of ornaments, toys, etc.; Compound for billiard balls 155 Coloring glue; Process for this purpose invented by G. J. Lesser 156 Composition for printing rollers; Size 157 Process used in an English factory for making tub-size 158 Preparation of bone-size; Composition of the different grades of size 159 Concentrated size; Bookbinder’s size; Water-proof glue; Glue solution for rendering wrapping paper water-proof 160 Water-proofing fabrics with glue and tannin 161 Muratori and Landry’s process of water-proofing fabrics 162 Muzmann and Krakowitzer’s process of water-proofing fabrics; Glue for joints in leather driving belts; Hectograph mass 163 Formulas for hectograph masses 164 CHAPTER IX .
— from Glue, Gelatine, Animal Charcoal, Phosphorous, Cements, Pastes and Mucilages by F. (Ferdinand) Dawidowsky

French party rhetorically stood
On the other side, Le Canadien , the journal of the French party, rhetorically stood for liberty, fraternity, and equality as against arbitrary government.
— from Old Quebec: The Fortress of New France by Claude Glennon Bryan

for Porto Rico Sufferers
Goods, for Porto Rico Sufferers .
— from The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 01, January, 1900 by Various

for procrustean religious systems
It was one which cherished his veneration for the Creator and Preserver of the universe, and yet left his contempt for procrustean religious systems and ecclesiastical dogmas its free course.
— from The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I by Alexander Wheelock Thayer

frying pans rusty shovels
Here may be seen the lumber of the kitchen, forming a dark and confused mass for the foreground of the picture; gridirons and frying pans, rusty shovels and broken tongs, joint stools, and the fractured remains of rush-bottomed chairs.
— from McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey


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