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kisse in shewe of reverence of
And albeit, to kisse in shewe of reverence, of very right appertaineth to the reliques of Saints and there holy matters: yet if it bee the maner of your country, at parting, to say: Signori, Io vi bascio la mano.
— from A Renaissance Courtesy-book: Galateo of Manners & Behaviours by Giovanni Della Casa

know in some other region of
It may exist for aught we know in some other region of space, or in another time than ours.
— from The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc

kingdoms in spite of resistance on
[83] No time was lost in extending it throughout the kingdoms, in spite of resistance on the part of those who regarded with well-founded apprehension not only its efficiency as a means of coercing malefactors but as a dangerous development of the royal power.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

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