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frequent palpitation shortness of

If, however, the patient remains untreated, he becomes progressively weaker and more lethargic; there is frequent palpitation, shortness of breath, and increasing loss of weight.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

fried potatoes smelling of

She sat down with them to cabbage soup, porridge, and fried potatoes, smelling of mutton dripping.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

fat poor sample of

It is a clumsy, great, fat, poor sample of the printer’s art, but good enough for a government printing-office in that old day and in that remote region, perhaps.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

forward Pericles son of

Among them came forward Pericles, son of Xanthippus, the first man of his time at Athens, ablest alike in counsel and in action, and gave the following advice: "There is one principle, Athenians, which I hold to through everything, and that is the principle of no concession to the Peloponnesians.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

first person singular of

These are:— (1) the first person singular of the present; (2) the first person singular of the past; (3) the past participle.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

far Phocea Sidon or

THE DISTAFF Come, ye dainty Graces and lovely Muses, Rosy-armed and pure and with fairest tresses, Come from groves on Helicon's hill where murmur Founts that are holy; Come with dancing step and with lips harmonic, Gather near and view my ivory distaff, Gift from Cos my brother Charaxus brought me, Sailing from Egypt; Sailing back to Lesbos from far Naucratis, From the seven mouths of the Nile and Egypt Up the blue Ægean, the island-dotted Ocean of Hellas; Choicest wool alone will I spin for fabrics, Winding reel with threads for the cloths as fleecy, Soft and fine as they bring from far Phocea, Sidon or Sardis; While I weave my thought shall engird the giver, Whether here, or far on the sea, or resting Couched in shady courts with the lovely garland Girls of Naucratis.
— from The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English by Sappho

foreign princes seldom or

As it was common for them to be taught the more useful parts of education in the families of their masters, they were usually well qualified for the management of domestic concerns, and might even be competent to the superior departments of the state, especially in those times when negotiations and treaties with foreign princes seldom or never occurred; and in arbitrary governments, where public affairs were directed more by the will of the sovereign or his ministers, than by refined suggestions of policy.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

f painful sore or

sārbenn † f. painful sore or wound .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Funny presents some of

Funny presents, some of them, but what would have been defects to other eyes were ornaments to grandma's,—for the children's gifts were all their own.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

first public service of

At about nine o'clock on the Sabbath morning the Puritan colonists assembled for the first public service of the holy day; they were gathered together by various warning sounds.
— from Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle

found Pat spread out

An open space being found, Pat spread out the skins, and without a moment’s loss of time began to collect wood for a fire.
— from Snow Shoes and Canoes Or, The Early Days of a Fur-Trader in the Hudson Bay Territory by William Henry Giles Kingston

fifty per sons of

This occurrence was celebrated with great pomp, and a fete was given to nearly one hundred and fifty per sons of both sexes,—as usual, a mixture of ci-devant nobles and of ci-devant sans-culottes; of rank and meanness; of upstart wealth and beggared dignity.
— from Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete by Lewis Goldsmith

from Private Stanley Ortheris

The devils had departed from Private Stanley Ortheris, No. 22639, B company.
— from Soldier Stories by Rudyard Kipling

femoribus posterioribus supra obscurioribus

n. s. Fœm. Nigra, antennis basi testaceis, pedibus testaceis, femoribus posterioribus supra obscurioribus, alis cinereis costam versus subnigricantibus.
— from Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4 Zoology by Linnean Society of London

felt pretty sure of

I felt pretty sure of them.
— from Sense from Thought Divide by Mark Clifton

find pyramidal structures of

Not only do we find pyramidal structures of earth in the Mississippi Valley very much like the pyramids of Egypt, Mexico, and Peru, but a very singular structure is repeated in Ohio and Peru: I refer to the double walls or prolonged pyramids, if I may coin an expression, shown in the cut page 375.
— from Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly

for Pamlico Sound offered

Certainly not to lay in stores, for Pamlico Sound offered neither the resources nor facilities to be found in such ports as Boston, New York, Dover, Savannah, Wilmington in North Carolina, and Charleston in South Carolina.
— from Facing the Flag by Jules Verne

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