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his enthusiasm received a check

Tommy burst into its sacred portals eagerly, but his enthusiasm received a check.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

His enforced retirement and comparative

His enforced retirement and comparative leisure would lead his own thoughts in this direction, while at the same time the fresh dangers threatening the truth from the side of mystic speculation required to be confronted by an exposition of the Gospel from a corresponding point of view.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

have everything ready and come

I could not arrange for relays, but if you will give me a letter to the Effendi telling him to give me two hundred pounds, then I will have everything ready and come again within three months."
— from The Four Feathers by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

her ethics rather a code

She was neither a Utopian purist nor a sentimental innocent; nor can she belie a natural tendency to make her ethics rather a code of high-minded expediency than of high principle for its own sake only.
— from Maria Edgeworth by Helen Zimmern

had expected resistance and come

He had expected resistance and come armed to meet it.
— from One Woman: Being the Second Part of a Romance of Sussex by Alfred Ollivant

Here everything reaches a climax

Here everything reaches a climax.
— from The Boys of Grand Pré School Illustrated by James De Mille

his earlier report all carriers

Having received his earlier report, all carriers had dispatched their dive bombers and torpedo planes, with fighter escort, to the enemy harbor, where they hoped to wreak havoc on the fleet before it could escape.
— from Jet Plane Mystery by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

his elegant rooms a contemptuous

But the captain was not knocked down, and walked home to his elegant rooms, a contemptuous smile on his lips, but an annoyed feeling within.
— from A Changed Heart: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

however eventuates round a corner

It, however, eventuates round a corner, at the main entrance.
— from Our Churches and Chapels: Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus

had evidently ridden across country

She had evidently ridden across country from one of the private entrances to the Park.
— from The Betrayal by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

had evidently reached a critical

He had evidently reached a critical point in his undertaking.
— from The Squirrel-Cage by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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