"intrant" hidden in books

impulse not to ruin Alice nor to

It seemed to be Maule's impulse, not to ruin Alice, nor to visit her with any black or gigantic mischief, which would have crowned her sorrows with the grace of tragedy, but to wreak a low, ungenerous scorn upon her.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

is none to rekindle and none to

The divine fires of Persia and of the Aztecs, have died out in the ashes of the past, and there is none to rekindle, and none to feed the holy flames.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

is neither the Roman arch nor the

As the golden ball first dips itself, as it were, into the water, its outline forms a circular arch; but one which is neither the Roman arch nor the later horseshoe arch, but what may be called the archaic circular arch .
— from Galicia, the Switzerland of Spain by Annette M. B. Meakin

it near the roof are numerous tattered

Above it, near the roof, are numerous tattered flags taken in battle.
— from The South of France—East Half by C. B. Black

is nothing to reveal absolutely nothing to

"You see," Gregory explained, "he was afraid I might think it presumptuous of him to do that, it was like doubting my word, so he came to me—however, he is back and there is nothing to reveal, absolutely nothing to reveal."
— from Fran by J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge) Ellis

is now the rule and not the

To sell one house and move into another; to leave one city and seek settlement in another, is now the rule and not the exception; and it is mainly this inter-migration, stirring up the masses, to which is due our increased prosperity and our progress in all branches of knowledge.
— from The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by Various

in novels these representations are not the

This explains the impaired memory of habitual novel-readers, for it is with them as with men of genius: the multitude of representations following rapidly upon each other, leaves no time or patience for repetition and practice; only, in novels, these representations are not the readers' own, but other people's thoughts and combinations quickly succeeding each other, and the readers themselves are wanting in that which, in genius, counterbalances repetition.
— from On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature: Two Essays (revised edition) by Arthur Schopenhauer

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