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It looked clumsy
It looked clumsy, but the Tin Woodman was sure it was strong and would answer their purpose.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

iron lamp commenced
Here the iron lamp commenced swinging with redoubled violence, and the devil half started from his seat;—however, with a slight sigh, he recovered his composure, merely saying to our hero in a low tone: “I tell you what, Pierre Bon-Bon, we must have no more swearing.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

incoherence looseness c
Incoherence. — N. nonadhesion[obs3]; immiscibility; incoherence; looseness &c. adj.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

I like cake
Gustu kug kík, I like cake.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

interesting legends connected
His chief work is Polyolbion , an enormous poem of many thousand couplets, describing the towns, mountains, and rivers of Britain, with the interesting legends connected with each.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

in Linn county
The following is the record of the first coffin made in Linn county: "Be it remembered that on the 21st day of June, A. D. 1841, James E. Bromwell filed his account in the Court of Probate against the estate of Martin Martindale, deceased, in the words and figures, to wit: "To J. E. Bromwell, Dr. "To one white walnut coffin, $12.00" Marion was the home for years of three Mexican war veterans, who were also veterans of the Civil war, viz: Thomas J. McKean, G. A. Gray, both deceased, and Samuel B. Thompson, now past ninety years of age and living with his daughter, Mrs. Nellie Schimmerhorn, of Kansas City.
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer

is largely composed
Byron’s regular dramas, for instance, if they ever lived, are almost forgotten; but Heaven and Earth , which is still alive, is largely composed of lyrics, and the first two acts of Manfred are full of them.
— from Oxford Lectures on Poetry by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

If love comes
If love comes to her from the right source, she takes it gladly; otherwise she bravely goes her way alone, often showing the world that some of the most mother-hearted women are not really mothers.
— from Threads of Grey and Gold by Myrtle Reed

I lived commanded
The hill on which I lived commanded an extensive view of the surrounding mountains, including the township with its old ivy-grown tower overlooking all, and which appeared as if it were sliding down the mountain side.
— from Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II by M. Y. Halidom

in liberâ custodiâ
Sir Walter Ralegh having been condemned of high treason at his Majesty's entrance into this kingdom; and for the space of fourteen years, by his Majesty's princely clemency and mercy, not only spared from his execution, but permitted [Pg 392] to live as in liberâ custodiâ in the Tower, and to enjoy his lands and living, till all was by law evicted from him upon another ground, and not by forfeiture—which notwithstanding his Majesty out of his abundant grace gave him a competent satisfaction for the same—at length he fell upon an enterprise of a golden mine in Guiana.
— from Sir Walter Ralegh: A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

in La Couture
That these were not mere cover-joints to conceal an irregular intersection of the masonry, as Choisy suggests, [162] would seem to be proved by the fact that the courses meet in a straight line at the ridge in by far the greater number of Anjou churches in which they are employed,—for example in La Couture at Le Mans (Fig. 20) , Airaines, [163] and numerous churches with small torus ribs, as well as by the fact that such ridge ribs are sometimes omitted even when the masonry is laid up in courses of equal width and therefore interpenetrating at the ridge, as in Avesnières {50} (Mayenne)
— from Mediaeval Church Vaulting by Clarence Ward

IRVING LEE CONTENTS
To ROGER IRVING LEE CONTENTS Page The Critical Game 11 Dante in English 31 Dante's Political Philosophy 43 Nietzsche 55 Tolstoy 65 Maeterlinck's Essays 95 Joseph Conrad 105 A Conrad Miscellany 123 Strindberg 135 Tagore 145 Remy de Gourmont 153 Swift's Relations with Women 163 William James, Man of Letters 175 Biographies of Poe 193 Biographies of Whitman 203 George E. Woodberry 215 Abraham Cahan 227 Thomas Hardy 237 George Borrow 247 Shelley 259 H. G. Wells and Utopia 269 John Masefield 279 Shakespeare and the Scribes 289 George Moore and Other Irish Writers 305 James Joyce
— from The Critical Game by John Albert Macy


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