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in some sort of

Just as psychology may be regarded as an account of the manner in which the individual organism, as a whole, exercises control over its parts or rather of the manner in which the parts co-operate together to carry on the corporate existence of the whole, so sociology, speaking strictly, is a point of view and a method for investigating the processes by which individuals are inducted into and induced to co-operate in some sort of permanent corporate existence which we call society.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

I shall speak of

God shewed two manners of sickness that we have: the one is impatience, or sloth: for we bear our travail and our pains heavily; the other is despair, or doubtful dread, which I shall speak of after.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

I shall stand over

I shall stand over you with a stick, brother, to-day and to-morrow and all night; I shall worry you to work.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

its superb severity of

The present case about two o'clock this afternoon, gave me Niagara, its superb severity of action and color and
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

inadequate ships set out

There wasn’t a year that passed that didn’t bring some new human world into the Brotherhood, and many of these had developed from that cultural explosion during the First Millennium known as the Exodus, where small groups of colonists in inadequate ships set out for unannounced goals to homestead new worlds for man.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

it Some Sign of

dispatched two men to the Poncaries Village Situated in a handsom Plain on the lower Side of this Creek about two miles from the Missourie (the Poncasars nation is Small and at this time out in the praries hunting the Buffalow), one of the men Sent to the Village Killed a Buffalow in the town, the other, a large Buck near it, Some Sign of the two men who is a head.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

it showed symptoms of

From the beginning of that day, the 24th of March, it showed symptoms of abating.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

is scarcely sensible of

One is scarcely sensible of fatigue whilst he marches to music.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

I spent seven or

I was in no hurry to see the creature while the marks on her face and neck were still fresh, so I spent seven or eight days without making up my mind to receive her.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

investigate such statements on

I have been able to investigate such statements on numerous occasions, and invariably found them to be fabrications, usually without even a foundation of truth.
— from The Note-Book of an Attaché: Seven Months in the War Zone by Eric Fisher Wood

I see some of

When I see some of these in history they please me much.
— from The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal by Blaise Pascal

I suppose some other

I suppose some other opportunity will offer for me to get on board of the brig ag'in, and I'll trust to that.
— from Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef by James Fenimore Cooper

I shall stay on

"My time was up yesterday, but I find so much to interest me down here that I think I shall stay on for a few more days, if my host remains as hospitable as ever."
— from A Maker of History by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

in some sort of

The man with stocks purchased and lawsuits pending, and all sorts of deals under way, knows that he can be reached (probably) in some sort of a zig-zag manner by wireless telegraphy, no matter where he may be on the wide ocean, and so, most of the time, he is standing around on one foot waiting for bad news.
— from In Pastures New by George Ade

I shall stand on

“I shall stand on small ceremony,” said Bridgenorth.
— from Peveril of the Peak by Walter Scott

I should speak of

I speak of Mars and the Moon as older than the earth in the same sense that I should speak of a fly in autumn as older than a five-year-old raven.
— from Flowers of the Sky by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor

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