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follows that determination done

For, during this suspension of any desire, before the will be determined to action, and the action (which follows that determination) done, we have opportunity to examine, view, and judge of the good or evil of what we are going to do; and when, upon due examination, we have judged, we have done our duty, all that we can, or ought to do, in pursuit of our happiness; and it is not a fault, but a perfection of our nature, to desire, will, and act according to the last result of a fair examination.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

from the dry desert

He wished to come from the dry desert to the house of a faithful friend.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

from the deep damnation

No silver will I give thee, unless I were to pour it molten down thy avaricious throat—no, not a silver penny will I give thee, Nazarene, were it to save thee from the deep damnation thy whole life has merited!
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

from the dark devices

I now beseech you once more, to pray for me, that I may be delivered from the dark devices of men.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

from those dark depths

they know the far Lethæan spring, The violet-hidden waters well they know, Where one whose feet with tired wandering Are faint and broken may take heart and go, And from those dark depths cool and crystalline Drink, and draw balm, and sleep for sleepless souls, and anodyne.
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

from the dispassionate deafness

In this case it will be much wiser to submit to a few inconveniencies arising from the dispassionate deafness of laws, than to remedy them by applying to the passionate open ears of a tyrant.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

From the Dictionnaire du

From the "Dictionnaire du Mobilier Français" of M. Viollet-Leduc.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

fixedly the dimples disappeared

" Herminia gazed at him fixedly; the dimples disappeared.
— from The Woman Who Did by Grant Allen

feel the deepest distress

Of course, you know how grieved I am—in short, that we all feel the deepest distress and vexation; but, to be sure, since you have given it up, somebody must succeed you—there can be no doubt of that."
— from The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

from the down draught

[Pg 196] wrack; away to the west above the Lammermoors the sunset flared like a bale-fire, scattering sparks on the windows of the Tower. 'Twas cheerier within than without, for the walls were thick and kept the wind at bay, the wood fires were lively with hissing logs, and scarce heeded a chance buffet from the down draught lying in ambush within the open chimney-stack.
— from Border Ghost Stories by Howard Pease

from the detailed drawing

Some idea of the aspect of these spots may be obtained from the accompanying reproduction of a photograph of the Sun (taken September 8, 1898, at the [Pg 97] author's observatory at Juvisy), and from the detailed drawing of the large spot that broke out some days later (September 13), crossed by a bridge, and furrowed with flames.
— from Astronomy for Amateurs by Camille Flammarion

for the dog drivers

The poor brutes whined under the stinging lash, for the dog drivers were angry and cruel; nor till Babette, the leader, was cut from the traces, could they break out the sled and get under way.
— from The Son of the Wolf by Jack London

for that distracted down

Strange to think of, fierce Svein of the Double-beard, and conquest of England by him; this had at last become the one salutary result which remained for that distracted, down-trodden, now utterly chaotic and anarchic country.
— from Early Kings of Norway by Thomas Carlyle

from the deep divine

So swells each windpipe; ass intones to ass, Harmonic twang! of leather, horn, and brass; Such as from labouring lungs the enthusiast blows, High sound, attemper'd to the vocal nose, Or such as bellow from the deep divine; There, Webster![323] peal'd thy voice, and, Whitfield![324] thine.
— from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Alexander Pope

for the day Does

This question, together with the problem for the day, "Does man have a purpose?" had taken complete occupation of the young man's mind, not because of any intrinsic interest, but because the professor was in the habit of calling on students and expecting a thoughtful response.
— from Stories from the Old Attic by Robert A. (Robert Alan) Harris

form three different dates

In the above example, instead of repeating the 2 Ahau with each of the two lower month signs, 3 Zotz and 13 Yax , by writing it once above the upper month sign, 3 Cumhu , the scribe intended that it should be used in turn with each one of the three month signs standing below it, to form three different dates, saving by this abbreviation the space of two glyphs, that is, double the space occupied by 2 Ahau .
— from An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley

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