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fact usage permits a

In fact, usage permits a clan to sell or give away the right of bearing its totem, as a result of which each clan has a number of totems, some of which it has in common with other clans (see Swanton, pp. 107 and 268).
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

for uttering proverbs and

You chide me for uttering proverbs, and you string them in couples yourself."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

feelings uncontrolled play as

A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done; cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine, without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

for unlimited periods as

Doubtless it was some feeling of this difficulty; and the clear insight how little such knowledge yet existed in the French Nation, new in the Constitutional career, and how defunct Aristocrats would continue to walk for unlimited periods, as Partridge the Alamanack-maker did,—that had sunk into the deep mind of People's-friend Marat, an eminently practical mind; and had grown there, in that richest putrescent soil, into the most original plan of action ever submitted to a People.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

fame upheld Properly as

When they had ranged them each after other in their due places, they found out their sentence, as it is metrified in this octastich: Thy fame upheld (Properly, as corrected by Ozell:
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

fruits unripe plantains and

From the houses of the son’s wife and daughter’s husband are sent quantities of jāk fruits, unripe plantains, and cocoanuts, as death gifts.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

From unsuspected parts a

As sitting in dark days, Lone, sulky, through the time's thick murk looking in vain for light, for hope, From unsuspected parts a fierce and momentary proof, (The sun there at the centre though conceal'd, Electric life forever at the centre,) Breaks forth a lightning flash.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

for unlimited periods and

The indiscriminate alienation of large tracts of land for unlimited periods and for indefinite purposes is an unsound policy, which does not find favour in Sarawak.
— from A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 by C. A. Bampfylde

find us prospering as

Might we find them prospering as we expected; might they find us prospering as they expected!
— from The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens

found unto praise and

He allowed them to go through the exercise, to wade through the deep waters, to be thoroughly tested, in order that "the trial of their faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory."
— from Life and Times of David. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. VI by Charles Henry Mackintosh

from unlimited Power and

They had created the Court to protect them from unlimited Power, and it was little enough protection at best.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

flew up poised a

Suddenly the man by the prow raised his hand with a peculiar gesture; whereupon all the oars flew up, poised a moment in air, then fell straight down.
— from Ben-Hur: A tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

fill up presently and

It was not a full night, our waiter told us, but we were early, it was only 7.15, and the saloon would fill up presently; and then he drifted into wonderful figures of the number of guests the Holborn could hold at one time.
— from Dinners and Diners: Where and How to Dine in London by Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel) Newnham-Davis

fall upon people and

But, as one thinks of an office, almost divine, performed by any mortal man—of any single being pretending to control the thoughts, to direct the faith, to order the implicit obedience of brother millions, to compel them into war at his offence or quarrel; to command, “In this way you shall trade, in this way you shall think; these neighbours shall be your allies whom you shall help, these others your enemies whom you shall slay at my orders; in this way you shall worship God;” —who can wonder that, when such a man as George took such an office on himself, punishment and humiliation should fall upon people and chief?
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

for unadulterated pleasure a

Confess now, that for unadulterated pleasure a sail such as we’ve just had beats motoring, whether on land or water, out of sight.
— from Days in the Open by Lathan A. (Lathan Augustus) Crandall

five underground passages and

At random, they picked the center of the five underground passages, and walked swiftly along it.
— from The Raid on the Termites by Paul Ernst

for university professorships and

Archicube , m. , student who has completed his three years’ course of study at the Ecole Normale , an institution where professors are trained for university professorships, and which holds the first rank among special schools in France.
— from Argot and Slang A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms and Flash Phrases Used in the High and Low Life of Old and New Paris by Albert Barrère

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