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January at Versailles in the sixty
That great officer died in January at Versailles, in the sixty-seventh year of his age; and Louis lamented his death the more deeply, as he had not another general left in whose understanding he could confide.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

José also vaulted into the saddle
And with a little of the pride that had impelled Jack to show off his skill that day when the Captain of the Committee commanded him to mount the buckskin, José also vaulted into the saddle without deigning to touch the stirrup.
— from The Gringos A Story Of The Old California Days In 1849 by B. M. Bower

just as valuable in the sight
What was good enough for the poor was good enough for him, and he did not approve of the rich and the eminent occupying all the good seats, to the exclusion of the poor, whose souls were just as valuable in the sight of God.
— from General Gordon A Christian Hero by Seton Churchill

joy AcÏclaim v i To shout
3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy. AcÏclaim¶, v. i. To shout applause. AcÏclaim¶, n. Acclamation.
— from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

just as vigorously in the spiritual
If the body should "fall dead," as we call it, the life force would continue to act just as vigorously in the spiritual body, which is the exact counterpart of the physical organism.
— from Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease & Cure by Henry Lindlahr

jostling almost vulgarly invading the sacred
Immediately on the right of the church, and jostling, almost vulgarly invading the sacred precincts of the churchyard, which it adjoins, rises the obtrusive bulk of a huge brewery, with accompanying chimney stalk, as big as the church itself, and almost as 156 venerable looking, [36] a pertinent illustration of the contiguity, so often sarcastically associated in one of our modern political cries.
— from The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by W. H. Hamilton (William Henry Hamilton) Rogers

just as valuable in the sight
It ought to help us greatly in our relations with them ever fully to realize that they with us are parts of the one Universal Life, simply different forms of the manifestation of the One Life, having their part to play in the economy of the great universe the same as we have ours, having their destiny to work out the same as we have ours, and just as important, just as valuable, in the sight of the All in All as we ourselves.
— from What All The World's A-Seeking The Vital Law of True Life, True Greatness Power and Happiness by Ralph Waldo Trine


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