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This is accurate enough for all practical purposes, and involves no difficulty except the deciphering of the Arabic digits.
— from The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. by William De Lancey Ellwanger
" "That will I not do, even to mine own brother," answered the Tinker.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
With respect to French, it is no doubt essential to comfort to understand it; it is one of the attributes of a lady to speak it well; still, it is not indispensable to speak it so well that the American lady is mistaken for a Parisian.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley
There is no doubt either that he was not the instigator of the crime.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
“’Job,’ he said to me, solemn like, and yet with a kind of satisfaction shining through him, more like a Methody parson when he has sold a neighbour a marked horse for a sound one and cleared twenty pounds by the job than anything I can think on—’Job, time’s up, Job; but I never did expect to have to come and hunt you out in this ‘ere place, Job.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
Such laws are interferences of the state to prohibit a mischievous act—an act injurious to others, which ought to be a subject of reprobation, and social stigma, even when it is not deemed expedient to superadd legal punishment.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Of this form of error however there is no direct evidence till a somewhat later date: or (2) To combat a false spiritualism which took offence at the doctrine of an atoning sacrifice.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot
As for you, son of Atreus, treat people more righteously in future; it is no disgrace even to a king that he should make amends if he was wrong in the first instance.
— from The Iliad by Homer
Indeed, before the publication of Anderson's "Constitutions" in 1723 there is no definite evidence that the Solomonic legend had been incorporated into the ritual of British Masonry.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster
There is no distinct evidence that the Page 172 {172} maro aurou was supposed to have any special efficacy in divination, but one cannot fail to see a certain parallelism between this holy girdle, which endowed its wearer with a particular sanctity, and the ephod.
— from Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas Henry Huxley
But it is not distinct enough to place much reliance upon it.
— from Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of
Still, seeing that they must work or starve, the idlers now did enough to keep themselves alive.
— from The Story of the Thirteen Colonies by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber
"There is no difference, except that some are heavier than others."—"We may be playful, and yet innocent; grave, and yet corrupt."— Murray's Key , p. 166.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
Now, the steamers, when they arrive at Liverpool, cannot usually go directly up to the pier, because the water is not deep enough there, except at particular states of the tide.
— from Rollo on the Atlantic by Jacob Abbott
There is no doubt either that not a little of it was of fair poetic quality.
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
[p. 476] liabilities even real and serious, when there is no discernible evidence to suggest their approach; much more when there is positive evidence, artfully laid out by a superior enemy, to create belief in their absence.
— from History of Greece, Volume 06 (of 12) by George Grote
Professor Bell states, that 'there is no doubt exuviation takes place annually with great regularity, until the growth is completed, which, in many species, is not before the animal is many years old.'
— from Glimpses of Ocean Life; Or, Rock-Pools and the Lessons they Teach by John Harper
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