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he and Metrodorus explain themselves

They do not consider that he speaks here, indeed, ambiguously; but in many other places both he and Metrodorus explain themselves as clearly as you have done.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

half a mile entirely to

Only these: I want the well and the surroundings for the space of half a mile, entirely to myself from sunset to-day until I remove the ban—and nobody allowed to cross the ground but by my authority.”
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

honours and moreover exacted the

Since he had been unjustly treated by impious men the gods paid him honours, and moreover exacted the penalty from his assassins.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

he assigns motives enough the

Certainly he assigns motives enough; the difficulty is that he assigns so many.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

her and many enquiries to

Bingley expressed great pleasure in the certainty of seeing Elizabeth again, having still a great deal to say to her, and many enquiries to make after all their Hertfordshire friends.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

handled and more exhausted than

Sir Francis Bacon has finely described other Advantages, or, as he calls them, Fruits of Friendship; and indeed there is no Subject of Morality which has been better handled and more exhausted than this.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

have a momentary effect the

Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second, a much longer duration; and the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and shine for all time.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

higher and more excellent than

It is the avowal of the unschooled man, that he finds a quality in him that is negligent of expense, of health, of life, of danger, of hatred, of reproach, and knows that his will is higher and more excellent than all actual and all possible antagonists.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

houses and more ease The

'T is true he shrank from men even of his nation, When they built up unto his darling trees,— He moved some hundred miles off, for a station Where there were fewer houses and more ease; The inconvenience of civilisation Is, that you neither can be pleased nor please; But where he met the individual man, He show'd himself as kind as mortal can.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

high and many exceeding two

There are two trees three hundred feet high, and many exceeding two hundred and fifty feet, the bark sometimes being a foot and a half thick.
— from America, Volume 6 (of 6) by Joel Cook

have animated M Estrade that

Acting on the same principles which have animated M. Estrade, that is to say, with the aim of reducing the retarding effects of rolling friction, the constructor of the locomotive of the Great Northern has considerably increased the diameter of the wheels of t
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various

have a monument erected to

His faithful friends, Faisst at the head of them, took care to have a monument erected to his memory near those of Beethoven and Schubert.
— from Musicians of To-Day by Romain Rolland

humorously and most entertainingly told

How the young man met the situation is humorously and most entertainingly told.
— from Sylvia Arden Decides by Margaret Piper Chalmers

harassing and more expensive than

Although he has not "the slightest doubt of the ultimate result," he foresees that the work which still lies before the Imperial troops will be "slower, more difficult, more harassing, and more expensive than was at one time anticipated."
— from Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by W. Basil (William Basil) Worsfold

hour and minute each train

Here, with data carefully collected, it was decided how many passenger and freight trains were to be run, what changes of time were desirable, and at what hour and minute each train was to leave and arrive at the termini of the division.
— from The Young Train Master by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Hardin and Mr English to

" It is due General Hardin and Mr. English to state that their interference was of the most courteous and gentlemanly character.
— from Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Volume 1 (of 2) by William Henry Herndon

have a moral effect that

Guns, as people say, have "a moral effect" that is sometimes out of proportion to the actual damage they inflict.
— from With Rimington by L. March (Lisle March) Phillipps

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