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injuries seemed clean cuts
But all his injuries seemed clean cuts, and a mere fall from a cart could not cast a man into such extremity of terror.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

in Shelby County came
Andrew Simonsen and most of the settlers in Shelby County came at that time; but Peerson remained in Missouri.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

in summō colle conlocāvit
Sextus impedīmenta in summō colle conlocāvit.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

intensive sacrō consecrate consecrate
nāvem cōnscendere , embark, go on board 305 cōn-scrībō, -ere, -scrīpsī, -scrīptus [ com- , together , + scrībō , write ], ( write together ), enroll, enlist cōn-secrō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus [ com- , intensive, + sacrō , consecrate ], consecrate, devote cōn-sequor, -sequī, -secūtus sum , dep.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

I shall certainly come
I shall certainly come here to-morrow, just here to this place, just at the same hour, and I shall be happy remembering to-day.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I shall certainly come
“Then I shall certainly come.”
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

I spotted Cape Clear
As we swung around the Emerald Isle, I spotted Cape Clear for an instant, plus the lighthouse on Fastnet Rock that guides all those thousands of ships setting out from Glasgow or Liverpool.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

in states CLEINIAS Certainly
ATHENIAN: I suppose that there must be rulers and subjects in states? CLEINIAS: Certainly. ATHENIAN:
— from Laws by Plato

It seems certain calculating
It seems certain, calculating on the present passions and impulses of European capitalistic society, that the effective iron output of Europe will be diminished by a new political frontier (which sentiment and historic justice require), because nationalism and private interest are thus allowed to impose a new economic frontier along the same lines.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

if she could come
He would meet her at Alfredston Road, the following evening, Monday, on his way back from Christminster, if she could come by the up-train which crossed his down-train at that station.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

is such cowardice cried
“Lizaveta Nikolaevna, this is such cowardice,” cried Pyotr Stepanovitch, running after her.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

its slow curving course
How often he had come up here by the steep path through the wood, as a child, as a lad, as a man, and had cast himself down on the heather, and had looked out across that wonderful panorama of upland and lowland, with its scattered villages and old churches, and the wide band of the river taking its slow curving course among the level pastures and broad water meadows.
— from The Romance of His Life, and Other Romances by Mary Cholmondeley

Io son colui che
[84] "Io son colui che tenni ambo le chiavi Del cuor di Federigo e che le volsi Serrando e disserando sì soavi Che dal segreto suo quasi ogni uom tolsi.
— from Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour by William Parkinson and Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Edward Hutton

in Salisbury Cathedral circa
An effigy in Salisbury Cathedral, circa 1260, (Stothard, Pl.
— from Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Thirteenth Century by John Hewitt

I should catch cold
“Last night,” says Moscheles, “we played my Overture and his Octet together; it went swimmingly, and when we parted he lent me his cloak, for fear I should catch cold after so many hot notes.
— from Letters of Felix Mendelssohn to Ignaz and Charlotte Moscheles by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

in so cleverly conveying
Bound hand and foot they stand in the presence of this “artful dodger” among crowned heads, and in that of the decrepit Franz Joseph, in whose figure the artist has succeeded in so cleverly conveying an idea of the unstable and effete nature of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
— from Kultur in Cartoons With accompanying notes by well-known English writers by Louis Raemaekers

I say cousin Charles
I say cousin Charles is not the man to see his relatives sold up stick and stock by such as Mrs. De Witt.'
— from Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

is sometimes called common
This way of thinking is sometimes called 'common sense.'
— from Human Nature in Politics Third Edition by Graham Wallas

infaustum serpant contagia corpus
Should the part affected admit of it, let a ligature be tied tight round the wound, and have immediate recourse to the knife:— “Continuo, culpam ferro compesce priusquam, Dira per infaustum serpant contagia corpus.”
— from Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton


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