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faces red and confused their

As every cup was well flavored with cognac, it made all their faces red, and confused their ideas still more.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

French Revolution and compare the

Rqad a chapter from Macaulay's History , another from Carlyle's French Revolution , and compare the two.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

few rare antique carpets the

Again, in old manuscripts, on coins and on a few rare antique carpets, the date is written out in full, in so many words; as, for instance, “two-hundred-and-five-and-twenty-after-the-thousand.”
— from The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. by William De Lancey Ellwanger

for reformation among Christians the

[ This procedure of Esdras, and of the best part of the Jewish nation, after their return from the Babylonish captivity, of reducing the Jewish marriages, once for all, to the strictness of the law of Moses, without any regard to the greatness of those who had broken it, and without regard to that natural affection or compassion for their heathen wives, and their children by them, which made it so hard for Esdras to correct it, deserves greatly to be observed and imitated in all attempts for reformation among Christians, the contrary conduct having ever been the bane of true religion, both among Jews and Christians, while political views, or human passions, or prudential motives, are suffered to take place instead of the Divine laws, and so the blessing of God is forfeited, and the church still suffered to continue corrupt from one generation to another.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

fruits ripen and come to

Should a traveller, returning from a far country, tell us, that he had seen a climate in the fiftieth degree of northern latitude, where all the fruits ripen and come to perfection in the winter, and decay in the summer, after the same manner as in England they are produced and decay in the contrary seasons, he would find few so credulous as to believe him.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

figure rose and crept towards

The figure rose and crept towards us, and I shall never forget the face that he raised to mine, as the light from the window illuminated it.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

frolic round a Christmas tree

To see one of their great annual festivals, with the massed and marching stateliness of those great mothers, the young women brave and noble, beautiful and strong; and then the children, taking part as naturally as ours would frolic round a Christmas tree—it was overpowering in the impression of joyous, triumphant life.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

fire renewed and cleansed than

But this Pantagruelion Asbeston is rather by the fire renewed and cleansed than by the flames thereof consumed or changed.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

for refuge and coming to

He then advanced to the place where he heard that most of the barbarians of the district had fled for refuge; and coming to a certain mountain, he encamped at the foot of it.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Ferrara Romagna are ceded to

Bologna, Ferrara, Romagna, are ceded to the Republic.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

for returning across country to

As for returning across country to Andrijevitza, that, I was told, was out of the question.
— from Through the Land of the Serb by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham

foregoing remarks applies chiefly to

It is obvious that the greater part of the foregoing remarks applies chiefly to the construction of inland courses.
— from The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon

for rest and commanded that

Now, in the Old Testament, God separated the seventh day, and appointed it for rest, and commanded that it should be regarded as holy above all others.
— from Martin Luther's Large Catechism, translated by Bente and Dau by Martin Luther

first recognized and crowned there

Dingaan fled from thence; Panda died there; Cetywayo was first recognized and crowned there.
— from The Story of the Zulu Campaign by Edmund Verney Wyatt Edgell

frequently recurring and confined to

Sharp and dull pains frequently recurring and confined to the locations where ruptures appear should receive attention.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

former river and continued to

In 1817, Mr. Oxley directed his attention to the former river, and continued to follow its windings, until it appeared that its waters were lost in successive marshes and it ceased to be a river.
— from Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume I by Charles Sturt

family relics and carried them

Robert hastily gathered up some personal effects and precious family relics, and carried them aboard the ship with his mother, Ester and Rebecca.
— from A Century Too Soon: The Age of Tyranny by John R. (John Roy) Musick

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