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in Christ Church Stepney
In 1898 he was admitted into the Operative Jewish Converts' Institution, and in December of the same year was baptized by the Rev. G. H. Händler in Christ Church, Stepney.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

in Chandos Classics Selections
Texts: Works, Globe and Aldine editions; also in Chandos Classics; Selections, in Athenasum Press, Canterbury Poets, etc.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

in concessive clauses see
For even if in concessive clauses, see § 399 ; for as if in clauses of comparison, see § 428 ; for if (in the sense of whether ) in indirect questions, see § 442 .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

it chiefly concerns said
“To Brian de Bois-Guilbert, whom it chiefly concerns,” said the Preceptor of Goodalricke, “and who, moreover, best knows how the truth stands in this matter.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

incola claris Cor studiis
Nam diffusa solo latus explicat; ac subit auras Turribus in coelum nitentibus: incola claris Cor studiis acuit...
— 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

I can call spirits
"I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
— 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.

ipsōrum culpā contrācta sunt
ea molestissimē ferre hominēs dēbent, quae ipsōrum culpā contrācta sunt , QFr.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

in copying cross stitch
287 ).—Generally speaking, this stitch is only used for the adornment of under-linen or small articles of fancy-work but it can also be employed in copying cross stitch patterns.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

in changing colour sometimes
They persisted in changing colour sometimes, and they would be occasionally dilated and contracted by something like a faint pulsation; then, they gave a look of treachery, and cruelty, to the whole countenance.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

impertinent cowardly censorious sauntering
What he called poems, too, he wrote, with a harsh jingle of rhymes; one specially, showing that— “as the world goes, and is like to go, the best way for Ladies is to keep unmarried, for I will ever expose,” he says, “these infamous, impertinent, cowardly, censorious, sauntering Idle wretches , called Wits and Beaux , the Plague of the nation and the Scandal of mankind.”
— from English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 2: From Elizabeth to Anne by Donald Grant Mitchell

I cannot cannot see
O no, no, I cannot, cannot see Fred!
— from Henrietta's Wish; Or, Domineering by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

ichthyic class consisted so
With the Old Red Sandstone the ganoids were ushered upon the scene in amazing abundance; and for untold ages, comprising mayhap millions of years, the entire ichthyic class consisted, so far as is yet known, of but
— from The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller

It certainly could stand
It certainly could stand being pressed, all right.”
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

in cheap clothing shops
But the workers in cheap clothing shops organized to prevent the introduction of the machines, claiming that they would destroy their livelihood.
— from Historic Inventions by Rupert Sargent Holland

in case circumstances should
Monella had trusted him so far as to explain to him something of the secrets of the firearms, and had instructed him in the loading of them in case circumstances should arise in which his assistance might be needed.
— from The Devil-Tree of El Dorado: A Novel by Frank Aubrey

is called Chung Sai
This states that the paper, which is published daily in Chinese, is called "Chung Sai Yat Po," and that it has the largest circulation of any Chinese paper published outside of the Chinese Empire.
— from By the Golden Gate Or, San Francisco, the Queen City of the Pacific Coast; with Scenes and Incidents Characteristic of its Life by Joseph Carey


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