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is shown on folio
This chart is shown on folio 65a of MS.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

I suppose only for
They have spared me alone—and that, I suppose, only for a time.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

its source only from
In the moral consciousness we feel ourselves subject to a decree which does not appear to be issued by any personal human power; we hear the voice of conscience only in ourselves, although with a force and definiteness, in contrast with all subjective egoism, which, as it seems, could have had its source only from an authority outside the subject.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

In spite of foes
In spite of foes: In spite o' crowds, in spite o' mobs, In spite o' undermining jobs, In spite o' dark banditti stabs
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

in strength or fortune
If others excel you in knowledge, in gracefulness, in strength, or fortune, you have alternative resources at your disposal; but to give place to them in stability of mind, you can blame no one for that but yourself.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I Set Out for
XXXI I Find a Lodging in the House of the Chief of the Sbirri—I Pass a Good Night There and Recover My Strength—I Go to Mass—A Disagreeable Meeting—I Am Obliged to Take Six Sequins by Force—Out of Danger—Arrived at Munich—Balbi I Set Out for Paris—My Arrival—Attempt on the Life of Louis XV As soon as I saw Father Balbi far enough off I got up, and seeing at a little distance a shepherd keeping his flock on the hill-side, I made my way-towards him to obtain such information as I needed.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

is squeezed out from
n colored juice that is squeezed out from s.t. that fades.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

is some one from
" In Illinoise a Yankee is some one from the East, but down South he is anybody from north of the Ohio, and though that there war was fought forty years ago some of them fellers down there don't know
— from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis

in scattering our favors
"Grace and I believe in scattering our favors--as 'twere.
— from The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge; or, the Hermit of Moonlight Falls by Laura Lee Hope

in search of food
Scraping various things, however, and tasting the ends of her thin fingers, suggested that she was in search of food.
— from In the Track of the Troops by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

is susceptible of formulation
Here, too, the fundamental problem is, how far the process may be mechanically explicable or comprehensible, how far it is susceptible of formulation in physico-chemical or mechanistic terms.
— from Biology A lecture delivered at Columbia University in the series on Science, Philosophy and Art November 20, 1907 by Edmund B. (Edmund Beecher) Wilson

I supposed opened from
There were no handles or keyholes, but possibly the panels, if they were doors, as I supposed, opened from within.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER FORMING
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 A GENERAL HISTORY AND COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, ARRANGED IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER: FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION, DISCOVERY, AND COMMERCE, BY SEA AND LAND, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Robert Kerr

in spite of fear
Her dark eyes had a look of persistence in spite of fear, a line or two shot up from between her brows, her lips were pursed a little and drawn down at the corners, her chin thrust forward.
— from A Daughter of To-Day by Sara Jeannette Duncan


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