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I naturally enough received the

Hearing such charges often repeated, I, naturally enough, received the impression that abolition—whatever else it might be—could not be unfriendly to the slave, nor very friendly to the slaveholder.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

is not enough replied the

"That is not enough," replied the man.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

I never even read them

I told him I never even read them.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

is not easily reduced to

The ideal is not easily reduced to the conditions of actual life, and may often be at variance with them.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

is no earthly reason to

The tall gamekeeper replied in the affirmative, and looked with some surprise from Mr. Winkle, who was holding his gun as if he wished his coat pocket to save him the trouble of pulling the trigger, to Mr. Tupman, who was holding his as if he was afraid of it—as there is no earthly reason to doubt he really was.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

its near edge reposed the

On its near edge reposed the city.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

inheritance not even replying to

On the death of Sir Ferdinando in 1647, his estate in Maine passed to his son, John Gorges, who totally neglected his inheritance not even replying to repeated letters from the Gorges Colonists.
— from Oaths of Allegiance in Colonial New England by Charles Evans

in no etymological relations to

I and me , thou and ye , stand in no etymological relations to each other.
— from A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

is not enough room to

Digging it out is not very hard, save where there is not enough room to stand upright and use the pick, or when, in a shaft deep in the ground, the heat makes it difficult to work.
— from History of California by Helen Elliott Bandini

is no easy road to

There is no easy road to music.
— from Harper's Round Table, April 7, 1896 by Various

in New England rum the

That stimulant to the mind, outside of daily routine, which the human race must have under all circumstances, (we call it excitement nowadays,) was found by the better sort in theological quarrels, by the baser in New England rum,—the two things most cheering to the spirit of man, if Byron is to be believed.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

inflections not even retaining the

The most obvious characteristic of the northern tongue is that in development it was far ahead of its southern contemporary, in so far as it had absolutely got rid of inflections, not even retaining the final e which casts its shadow over Chaucer.
— from The Bruce by John Barbour

is not easily reconciled to

Human feeling is not easily reconciled to the execution of a bad magistrate, unless he has also been a bad man.
— from Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett

is no easy road to

There is no easy road to the goal of military effort.
— from Sound Military Decision by Naval War College (U.S.)

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