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in the evening requisition and notices the
During all this time, you must remember that we had the patrols, the shells in the evening, requisition and notices, the call to arms at the two barracks and in front of the mayoralty, the cries of "Fire!"
— from The Blockade of Phalsburg: An Episode of the End of the Empire by Erckmann-Chatrian

is that each realised at nearly the
The fact is that each realised, at nearly the same moment, that they were about to embark upon a perfectly new experience, an adventure in which they were as yet untried, in which courage and the most perfect sangfroid were of the utmost importance, and they were by no means certain how they would emerge from the ordeal.
— from The Adventures of Dick Maitland: A Tale of Unknown Africa by Harry Collingwood

in the end result and not the
Are you not really interested in the end result and not the means?
— from A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis by Melvin Powers

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