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ignorance affords me as

My ignorance affords me as much occasion of hope as of fear; and having no other rule for my health than that of the examples of others, and of events I see elsewhere upon the like occasion, I find of all sorts, and rely upon those which by comparison are most favourable to me.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

is a man as

“Bones,” said Craven; and then he added, “but it is a man,” as if that were something unexpected.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

in a manner adopted

his nephew, as well as the other lad, whom he had in a manner adopted, in his own house; where he thought their morals would escape all that danger of being corrupted to which they would be unavoidably exposed in any public school or university.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

into a mess and

They waste their money, get into a mess, and then snap their fingers at the bank.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

in a mixed assemblage

I may notice, in passing, that Mr. Newton has showed to me some mediæval woodcuts, in which the young unmarried women in a mixed assemblage were indicated by wearing upon their foreheads a crescent moon.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

it as much as

Up, and being ready, went by agreement to Mr. Bland’s and there drank my morning draft in good chocollatte, and slabbering my band sent home for another, and so he and I by water to White Hall, and walked to St. James’s, where met Creed and Vernatty, and by and by Sir W. Rider, and so to Mr. Coventry’s chamber, and there upon my Lord Peterborough’s accounts, where I endeavoured to shew the folly and punish it as much as I could of Mr. Povy; for, of all the men in the world, I never knew any man of his degree so great a coxcomb in such imployments.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

in a most admirable

And he governed his country for a long time in a most admirable manner.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

is a meditative and

For the second class, subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life; the characters and incidents were to be such as will be found in every village and its vicinity, where there is a meditative and feeling mind to seek after them, or to notice them, when they present themselves.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

is as much as

Reflection gathers experiences together and perceives their relative worth; which is as much as to say that it expresses a new attitude of will in the presence of a world better understood and turned to some purpose.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

In as much as

In as much as there was no taxi in sight, Kip decided on the latter course.
— from Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various

in a merciful and

It is presumably for this reason that some missionaries have found it their painful duty to explain to the Chinese (whom they are trying to convert to a belief in a merciful and loving Deity) that Confucius is now writhing in hell.
— from Lion and Dragon in Northern China by Johnston, Reginald Fleming, Sir

is a motor armature

In one form two armatures are mounted on one shaft in a single field or in separate fields; one is a motor armature driven by the original current; the other generates the new current.
— from The Standard Electrical Dictionary A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice of Electrical Engineering by T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor) Sloane

is also mentioned and

A priest of Kildare is also mentioned, and the Tanist-Abbot of Clonmacnois, a prosperous and affluent man.
— from An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack

is a Motion according

Accretion , or Growing, is a Motion according to the three Dimensions, viz.
— from The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan by Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik Ibn Tufayl

in a manner absolutely

She sang it carelessly and therefore in a manner absolutely gorgeous.
— from Mary Wollaston by Henry Kitchell Webster

instructed and morally animated

Essays, scientific and æsthetic, by Prof. Henry W. Parker; large 12mo, cloth, gilt top, 85c. (25c) “I have been delighted, instructed and morally animated by The Spirit of Beauty.
— from The Alden Catalogue of Choice Books, May 30, 1889 by John B. (John Berry) Alden

in a miserable attempt

“You've certainly told me often enough,” she retorted, in a miserable attempt at her old manner.
— from Her Prairie Knight by B. M. Bower

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