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in preparation for to

You have your hands full, I suppose, in preparation for to-morrow? REGINA.
— from Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

if poor fellow they

His active little crutch was heard upon the floor, and back came Tiny Tim before another word was spoken, escorted by his brother and sister to his stool beside the fire; and while Bob, turning up his cuffs—as if, poor fellow, they were capable of being made
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

is perceived from the

But in the imagination, besides the pain or pleasure arising from the properties of the natural object, a pleasure is perceived from the resemblance which the imitation has to the original: the imagination, I conceive, can have no pleasure but what results from one or other of these causes.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

in pleasure for these

The truth is, I have indulged myself more in pleasure for these last two months than ever I did in my life before, since I come to be a person concerned in business; and I doubt, when I come to make up my accounts, I shall find it so by the expence.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

is precisely for this

I confess—I hope it will not be held against me—that it is precisely for this reason that they offer first-rate joy to a psychologist—as the opposite of all merely naïve corruption, as refinement par excellence , as an artistic triumph in psychological corruption.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

inclined planes fastened to

But I can also make the Nautilus rise and sink, and sink and rise, by a vertical movement by means of two inclined planes fastened to its sides, opposite the centre of flotation, planes that move in every direction, and that are worked by powerful levers from the interior.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

indirectly proceeds from the

It may be but an idle whim, but it has always seemed to me, that the extraordinary vacillations of movement displayed by some whales when beset by three or four boats; the timidity and liability to queer frights, so common to such whales; I think that all this indirectly proceeds from the helpless perplexity of volition, in which their divided and diametrically opposite powers of vision must involve them.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

it proceeded from the

"But this unfortunate refusal to sanction all the decrees sent by the National Assembly, though it proceeded from the best motives, produced the worst effects.
— from Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 6 Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe by Mme. Du Hausset

is possible from the

In the latter case it is more merciful to let them die without disturbing them, unless it is possible from the lay of the country to stalk them so that their misery may be ended by a second well-aimed shot.
— from Tracks and Tracking by Josef Brunner

in prayer for the

But the Church had another and a better reason for ordering the bells to be rung at such times; and that was, 'that the faithful might be admonished to be urgent in prayer for the instant danger [205] .'
— from Stones of the Temple; Or, Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church by Walter Field

is preferred for the

—The soil which is preferred for the production of this crop is one which contains a comparatively high percentage of sand.
— from The Vegetable Garden: What, When, and How to Plant by Anonymous

it possible for them

Was it possible for them to pardon the havoc she had thus wrought in a great part of the Church of France, when they knew she had done it by sorcery, by divination and by invoking devils?
— from The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 by Anatole France

I pays for this

"Why, you see, stranger, I pays for this yer room eight dollars a month, in "dust."
— from Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast by James Fowler Rusling

into power found the

[Pg 234] foresaw that, unless immediate action were taken, Russia would declare war single-handed against Turkey and enforce her own terms, but nothing in fact was done, and Wellington, on coming into power, found the question of our relations with Turkey and Greece still open.
— from The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by John Knight Fotheringham

in preparation for the

In sumptuous studios, in wretched garrets; amid affluence, amid scenes of squalor and hunger, artists of all kinds and degrees have been squeezing thousands of tubes and daubing thousands of canvases in preparation for the great day.
— from Bohemian Paris of To-day Second Edition by Edward Cucuel

indeed primarily for the

His care was indeed primarily for the person.
— from Christianity and Ethics: A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Archibald B. D. (Archibald Browning Drysdale) Alexander

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