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it be drawn by

There is required a medium, which may enable the mind to draw such an inference, if indeed it be drawn by reasoning and argument.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

in bygone days before

The Todas maintain a large-horned race of semi-domesticated buffaloes, on whose milk and its products (butter and ney) 33 they still depend largely, though to a less extent than in bygone days before the establishment of the Ootacamund bazar, for existence.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

it but did both

And here we talked of the ill-humour of my wife, which I did excuse as much as I could, and they seemed to admit of it, but did both confess they wondered at it; but from thence to other discourse, and among others to that of my Lord Bruncker and Mrs. Williams, who it seems do speake mighty hardly of me for my not treating them, and not giving her something to her closett, and do speake worse of my wife, and dishonourably, but it is what she do of all the world, though she be a whore herself; so I value it not.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

it be defrayed by

Public stock and public lands, therefore, the two sources of revenue which may peculiarly belong to the sovereign or commonwealth, being both improper and insufficient funds for defraying the necessary expense of any great and civilized state; it remains that this expense must, the greater part of it, be defrayed by taxes of one kind or another; the people contributing a part of their own private revenue, in order to make up a public revenue to the sovereign or commonwealth.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Italian barque do because

and I felt as though I could fling down my hat and dance on it from sheer mortification, as I once saw the skipper of an Italian barque do because his duffer of a mate got into a mess with his anchors when making a flying moor in a roadstead full of ships.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

in bilious diseases but

So also, not only Hippocrates, but all physicians say that honey is bad in bilious diseases but good in old age; some of them having discovered this through the indications afforded by its nature, and others simply through experiment, 270 for the Empiricist physicians too have made precisely the same observation, namely, that honey is good for an old man and not for a young one, that it is harmful for those who are naturally bilious, and serviceable for those who are phlegmatic.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

indeed be degraded by

The sanctity of the office might indeed be degraded by the personal vices of the man.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

it be drawn by

“There,” resumed Woodburn, breaking the silence with which he and his companions had been witnessing the rather hazardous passage of their friends,—“there, the colonel is well over; but his is the last sleigh to cross this year, unless it be drawn by winged horses.”
— from The Rangers; or, The Tory's Daughter A Tale Illustrative of the Revolutionary History of Vermont and the Northern Campaign of 1777 by Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson

Ice by Dr Brown

But some light has been thrown on this question by an article, as charming as it is able, on “The Physics of the Arctic Ice,” by Dr. Brown, of Campster.
— from Health and Education by Charles Kingsley

indeed be dull but

The preacher whose purpose is to preach plain sense in such a style and manner as not to offend people of education and refinement, if he fail in doing what he wishes, may indeed be dull, but will not be absurd and offensive.
— from The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

I been driving back

I been driving back and forth for nigh on twelve years and I know it pretty well now.
— from Left End Edwards by Ralph Henry Barbour

it bulletins despatched by

Messages of life and death passed across it constantly; instructions in cases of emergency, tingling over the white line of road, saved the time that would otherwise have been occupied in walking the 300 yards--for doctors do not often run; reprimands were roared across it, bulletins despatched by its agency, dietary altered, medicine prescribed.
— from Jim Mortimer by R. S. Warren (Robert Stanley Warren) Bell

it be decreed by

Let it be decreed by a law that no one in future shall receive two salaries at the same time, and that the highest fees, in any situation, shall not exceed twelve hundred dollars in Paris and eight hundred in the departments.
— from System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Misery by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon

inconsolable borne down by

Misfortune dogged Amurath; his eldest son Ala-ed-din died, he who had assisted in command of the Ottoman forces in Asia, his father’s right hand, and left the Sultan inconsolable, borne down by the weight of accumulating affliction.
— from The Passing of the Turkish Empire in Europe by B. Granville (Bernard Granville) Baker

it be done by

I pray God it be done by all those that now-a-days get into churches, in spirit and with understanding.[28] LV.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

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