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judgment and I mounted a

My curiosity got the better of my judgment, and I mounted a horse and rode to the front to see what was going on.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

January as in May and

Madam Dianora requireth of Messer Ansaldo a garden as fair in January as in May, and he by binding himself [to pay a great sum of money] to a nigromancer, giveth it to her.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

JANUARY AS IN MAY AND

478 THE FIFTH STORY Day the Tenth MADAM DIANORA REQUIRETH OF MESSER ANSALDO A GARDEN AS FAIR IN JANUARY AS IN MAY, AND HE BY BINDING HIMSELF [TO PAY A GREAT SUM OF MONEY] TO A NIGROMANCER, GIVETH IT TO HER.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Juno as is meet and

Up and arise, goddess-born, and even with the setting stars address thy prayers to Juno as is meet, and vanquish her wrath and menaces with humble vows.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Jake and I met Antonia

For weeks afterward, whenever Jake and I met Antonia on her way to the post-office, or going along the road with her work-team, she would clap her hands and call to us in a spiteful, crowing voice: ‘Jake-y, Jake-y, sell the pig and pay the slap!’
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

Justice Arnett In many a

IF YOU in the village think that my work was a good one, Who closed the saloons and stopped all playing at cards, And haled old Daisy Fraser before Justice Arnett, In many a crusade to purge the people of sin; Why do you let the milliner's daughter Dora, And the worthless son of Benjamin Pantier Nightly make my grave their unholy pillow?
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

judgement and I must accept

I appeal to your judgement, and I must accept what you decide.
— from Beauchamp's Career — Volume 5 by George Meredith

Just as if mamma and

" "Just as if mamma and I would have thought any more of you with it," exclaimed Edith; "not that it isn't, of course, a very fine thing to have.
— from Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy

jagging at its mouth as

When the Parson got him a pony at fair-time, Ishmael soon gathered that a gentleman rode without kicking his horse in the belly or jagging at its mouth, as was the custom in that part of the world.
— from Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

Job and if Milton abandoned

" Shelley never abandoned this idea of a lyrical drama on Job; and if Milton abandoned the idea of an epic, there are passages in "Paradise Lost" as there are passages in "Prometheus Unbound" that might well have been written for this other story.
— from On The Art of Reading by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Judaism all its mysteries are

Whatever is spurious in Christianity is a remnant of Judaism, all its mysteries are misunderstood and falsely ( i.e. literally) applied allegories.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

judiciously applied it might at

It was really a most wonderful form of {54} speech, and, judiciously applied, it might, at that time, have "worked" a man from one end of Turkey in Europe to the other.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir

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