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in the end rejects all

Literary art in the end rejects all unmeaning nourishes, all complications that have no counterpart in things or no use in expressing their relations; at the same time it aspires to digest that reality to which it confines itself, making it over into ideal substance and material for the mind.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

in the empty rooms and

The old house, solid though it was, seemed to shake to its foundations, and the storm roared and raged through its many chimneys and its queer old gables, producing strange, unearthly sounds in the empty rooms and corridors.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

is the emergent Ray after

And so the Angle which the next emergent Ray (that is, the emergent Ray after three Reflexions) contains with the incident Ray AN will come to its Limit when ND is to CN as √(II - RR) to √(15)RR, in which case NE will be to ND as 4R to I.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

in the evening river about

the red wood, and Green bryors interwoven, and mixed with pine, alder, a Specis of Beech, ash &c. we killed nothing to day The Indians leave us in the evening, river about one mile wide hills high and Steep on the Std.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

in the European Russia adhere

The Mordvans and Tcheremisses in the European Russia adhere to this religion, which is formed on the earthly model of one king or God, his ministers or angels, and the rebellious spirits who oppose his government.
— 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

in the estate raised a

Those who knew the story gave him the cold shoulder; those who knew it not, seeing one brother disappear, and the other succeed in the estate, raised a cry of murder; so that upon all sides he found himself evited.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

in the East room again

But the evil ready to burst on her was at least delayed by the sudden change in Miss Crawford's ideas; by the strong effect on her mind which the finding herself in the East room again produced.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

into the East room again

She was struck, quite struck, when, on returning from her walk and going into the East room again, the first thing which caught her eye was a fire lighted and burning.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

If thine enemy repent as

If thine enemy repent, as our Saviour enjoined Peter, forgive him seventy-seven times; and why shouldst thou think God will not forgive thee? Why should the enormity of thy sins trouble thee?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

in the evening reached a

" They came then through Gautland, and in the evening reached a farm-house called Hof.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

in this entire region and

"The reason for dropping the cable is analogous to the reason for using drawbridges over navigable streams; there is only one landing-place for airplanes in this entire region and that is the level, grassy plateau northeast of Thusis Woods.
— from In Secret by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

in the engine room and

"Give the boy a chance," said he, "He'll want to eat peaches and go down in the engine room, and perhaps catch sunfish."
— from The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Stewart Edward White

its topmost edge ran a

Along its topmost edge ran a vast broken wall, built into the hill; and hanging from the brink of the wall like a long roof, great ilexes shut out the day from the path below.
— from Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

it the extra richness and

A frequent watering with manure water gives it the extra richness and water it really needs.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Ellen Eddy Shaw

itself to every Roman as

Those who persist in looking on Aeneas with modern eyes, and convict him of perfidy towards Dido, forget that his passion for Dido was a sudden one, not sanctioned by the gods or by favourable auspices, and that the ultimate union with Lavinia, for whom he forms no such attachment, was one which would recommend itself to every Roman as justified by the advantage to the State.
— from Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler

in time entirely removed and

Two rails were in time entirely removed and carried across the line and laid endwise in a ditch, where they promptly sank out of sight in the muddy ooze.
— from Two Daring Young Patriots; or, Outwitting the Huns by W. P. Shervill

in the East Riding and

Waipnesse beacon, within the liberties of Scarborough, do give light to Muston Beacon, in the East Riding, and to the west of the beacons before named "Charnell, three beacons, within the town of Scarborough adjoining to the castle, do give light to Waipnesse and Muston beacon."
— from The Evolution of an English Town by Gordon Home

If these elementary rules are

If these elementary rules are not observed faithfully, the deficiency will most probably be manifested in the dry rubber in the shape of streaks of varying shades of colour.
— from The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan

if this eye remained also

If this did not happen, if this eye remained also immovable, the retinal image would deviate outwards more and more from the macula lutea and diplopia would arise.
— from Clinical Investigations on Squint by C. Schweigger

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