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is dose exttreemly swift the

this bird is very noysey when flying which is dose exttreemly swift the motion of the wing is much like that of kildee it has two notes one like the squaking of a small pig only on reather a high kee, and the other kit'-tee'- kit'-tee'—as near as letters can express the sound—the beak of the female is black and the black and quaker colour of the male in her is yellowish brown mixed with dove colour H2 anchor
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

indeed does experience seem to

And if we consider the matter in its relation to the individual’s perfection, it is certainly clear that he misses the highest and best development of his emotional nature, if his sexual relations are of a merely sensual kind: but we can hardly know a priori that this lower kind of relation interferes with the development of the higher (nor indeed does experience seem to show that this is universally the case).
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

in doing even so trifling

Dr. Piderit [903] who has published remarks to the same effect, adds that stammerers generally frown in speaking, and that a man in doing even so trifling a thing as pulling on a boot, frowns if he finds it too tight.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

inattentive doing even simple things

tangà a inattentive, doing even simple things incompetently.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

It doubtless exists still to

It doubtless exists still, to be discovered and gloated over by the antiquarian of another century.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

in dreamless ease Should that

"Why, if man rot in dreamless ease, Should that plain fact, as taught by these, Not make him sure that he shall cease?
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

in Devon even since the

But after all there has been always a strong Cornish element in Devon, even since the time when Athelstan drove the Britons out of Exeter and set the Tamar for their boundary, and I think the original word is really Cornish.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

I despise em said the

'I despise 'em,' said the beadle, growing very red in the face.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

iam domus et summae tangunt

corusco iam domus et summae tangunt laquearia cristae: tum prior attonitum gratis adfata querellis: “Servatas, Stilicho, per te, venerande, curules, ornatas necdum fateor.
— from Claudian, volume 2 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

in distress escort ships through

Each destroyer cruised around in an assigned area, ready to assist vessels in distress, escort ships through her own "square" and, incidentally, to attack a submarine when the opportunity was presented.
— from The Victory At Sea by Burton Jesse Hendrick

in de eyes says to

An' jes den Marse George walked thoo de crowd straight up to him, an' lookin' him right in de eyes, says to him, 'You stole dat speech you made to-night.'
— from Unc' Edinburg: A Plantation Echo by Thomas Nelson Page

I declare Ellen said that

"Well, I declare, Ellen!" said that young lady, whose wandering eye was upon everything but Ellen herself "ain't you as fine as a fiddle!
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

is doubly evil surely to

De mortuis may mean a great deal more than we think; it is doubly evil, surely, to speak aught but good of the dead if we remember not only the defencelessness which caused that proverb, but the idea that all we may say about them we say in their dumb presence, and before those who are silent, and cannot speak in their own defence.
— from Nooks and Corners being the companion volume to 'From Kitchen to Garret' by J. E. (Jane Ellen) Panton

I do everything strictly to

Owlglass answered, “I do everything strictly to the letter, as I am told, and if I do wrong, the fault is therefore not mine, but the fault of those who give the orders.
— from A Picture-book of Merry Tales by Anonymous

is Deus ex se the

Poiret says the Father is “ Deus a se ,” the Son is “ Deus ex se ,” the Holy Spirit “ Deus ad se refluens .”
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

I d even see the

I 'd even see the little old lady picking her way to the other side,—see the blind beggar on the corner and the Others.
— from The Seventh Noon by Frederick Orin Bartlett

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