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into practice she even changed
That the resolution might be thoroughly carried into practice, she even changed the dress she wore, for that in which she had come to the grand mansion.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

its penumbra se en camino
on; se ponía de este modo he went like this; —se en su penumbra assume its penumbra; —se en camino,—se en marcha, set out, be off.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

izquierda por sobre el cuerno
Cuando se quiere arrendar a la derecha, se pasa el hico por sobre el cuerno derecho, y cuando a la izquierda, por sobre el cuerno izquierdo.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

important proposition so essentially connected
When that important proposition, so essentially connected with the public safety, was referred to the ministers of Valens, they were perplexed and divided; but they soon acquiesced in the flattering sentiment which seemed the most favorable to the pride, the indolence, and the avarice of their sovereign.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

INTERPERSONAL PROBLEM SOLVING External Conflicts
Trying the Solution Manpower Management Leadership Styles Dealing With Interpersonal Conflict INTERPERSONAL PROBLEM SOLVING External Conflicts Internal Conflicts Steps of Moral Decision Making Dealing with the "Unattached" Person Interpersonal relationships—Values PROBLEM SOLVING EVASIONS APPENDIX 1—OUTLINE STYLES APPENDIX 2—PERSUASIVE ARGUMENT FORM APPENDIX 3—ARGUMENTATIVE FALLACIES REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
— from Sequential Problem Solving A Student Handbook with Checklists for Successful Critical Thinking by Fredric B. Lozo

its proper succession every creature
The object of the present work is therefore to take, in its proper succession, every creature whose name is given in the Scriptures, and to supply so much of its history as will enable the reader to understand all the passages in which it is mentioned.
— from Bible Animals; Being a Description of Every Living Creature Mentioned in the Scripture, from the Ape to the Coral. by J. G. (John George) Wood

its parliament Sir Edward Coke
In its parliament, Sir Edward Coke, judicial, intrepid, and devout is still most potent.
— from Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher by Charles Mills Gayley

in partes secedunt et carnaliter
Sic peracta professione solemni, assignatur singulis eorum Diabolus, qui appellatur Magistellus, cum quo in partes secedunt, et carnaliter commiscentur: ille quidem in specie fœminæ, si initiatus est vir; in forma autem viri, et aliquando satyri, aliquando hirci, si fœmina est saga professa.
— from Demoniality; or, Incubi and Succubi by Ludovico Maria Sinistrari

is possible someone else could
"It is possible someone else could have accomplished the same thing, as it is possible someone else could have accomplished most things Rangers have.
— from A Matter of Honor: A Terran Empire novel by Ann Wilson


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