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just such days for
Life at Green Gables was full of just such days, for Anne’s adventures and misadventures, like those of other people, did not all happen at once, but were sprinkled over the year, with long stretches of harmless, happy days between, filled with work and dreams and laughter and lessons.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

judgments signed declarations filed
These sequestered nooks are the public offices of the legal profession, where writs are issued, judgments signed, declarations filed, and numerous other ingenious machines put in motion for the torture and torment of His Majesty’s liege subjects, and the comfort and emolument of the practitioners of the law.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Jim stepped down feeling
Jim stepped down, feeling idiotic.
— from We Can't Have Everything: A Novel by Rupert Hughes

Judah shall dwell for
And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim.—And Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation' (Joel 3:18,20).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan


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