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in many places c

1. Body, as ill digestion, crudity, wind, dry brains, hard belly, thick blood, much waking, heaviness, and palpitation of heart, leaping in many places, &c., Subs.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

in many physiological characteristics

There is no doubt that breeds may be made as different as species in many physiological characteristics.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

its meager proportions concealed

The lobster was a scarlet mystery to her, but she hammered and poked till it was unshelled and its meager proportions concealed in a grove of lettuce leaves.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

its mere physical cruelties

I have sometimes thought, that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress truly spiritual-minded men and women with the soul-crushing and death-dealing character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of its mere physical cruelties.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

in most places chose

I have therefore in most places chose to put DETERMINATE or DETERMINED, instead of CLEAR and DISTINCT, as more likely to direct men’s thoughts to my meaning in this matter.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

is more particularly concerned

The same spirit of analytical inquiry which is the origin of theory must also guide the critic in his work; and it can and must therefore happen that he strays beyond the boundaries of the province of theory and elucidates those points with which he is more particularly concerned.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

ill marriage postponed come

The melancholy morning came with explicit words: "Mother dangerously ill; marriage postponed; come at once.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

in my present condition

Shew me the same complaisance in my present condition as you did when we were in the world.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

in my particular closet

They are the skeletons in my particular closet.”
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

in mere physical capabilities

Anguish unknown, terrors too great for words, must that poor soul have met and overcome, ere he had learned the great lesson of sorrow, that life, true life, does not consist in mere physical capabilities and enjoyments, but that there is a far higher, nobler life, the life of the soul and mind, which is as infinitely above the other as heaven is above earth.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 695 April 21, 1877. by Various

in my presence call

It is this—that you do not again in my presence call your sister by that sickening name.' 'But, auntie, we think it a very lovely name.
— from Hollyhock: A Spirit of Mischief by L. T. Meade

In Mr Peters case

In Mr. Peters' case there had been distinct improvement already.
— from Something New by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

its murderous prehensile claws

Looking into the race of nature, and reading her history from the amoeba with its predatory pseudo-podia, to the lion with its murderous prehensile claws, he defined life practically, uprightly, and bravely, as "appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of its own forms, incorporation, and, at least, putting it mildest, exploitation."
— from Nietzsche: His Life and Works by Anthony M. (Anthony Mario) Ludovici

Indians mounted police clerks

Dog-punchers, couriers, miners, Indians, mounted police, clerks, etc.
— from Scorn of Women: A Play In Three Acts by Jack London

in my professional capacity

Whatever faults and failings I may have been guilty of as a man, I am innocent, in my professional capacity, of ever having perpetrated the useless and detestable cruelties which go by the name of Vivisection.
— from Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time by Wilkie Collins

in many places covered

The surface was in many places covered with small fragments of white quartz, which together with a conglomerate rock cropped out of the ground where it was more elevated.
— from Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia Performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6, Together With A Notice of the Province of South Australia in 1847 by Charles Sturt

its most profitable culture

Improvement of cotton-seed is an important part of its most profitable culture.
— from Soil Culture Containing a Comprehensive View of Agriculture, Horticulture, Pomology, Domestic Animals, Rural Economy, and Agricultural Literature by J. H. Walden

is my particular charge

This gentleman is my particular charge.
— from The Earl of Beaconsfield by James Anthony Froude

is moreover perfectly consistent

This coiffure is, moreover, perfectly consistent with the climate and the nature of the soil.
— from From Paris to Pekin over Siberian Snows A Narrative of a Journey by Sledge over the Snows of European Russia and Siberia, by Caravan Through Mongolia, Across the Gobi Desert and the Great Wall, and by Mule Palanquin Through China to Pekin by Victor Meignan

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