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likely enough make of

The janitor's daughter will continue onanism possibly to the commencement of her periods, abandon it then without difficulty, not many years later find a lover, perhaps bear a child, choose this or that path of life, which may likely enough make of her a popular artist who ends as an aristocrat.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

land eleven months or

And ye shall understand, that merchants that come from Genoa or from Venice or from Romania or other parts of Lombardy, they go by sea and by land eleven months or twelve, or more some-time, ere they may come to the isle of Cathay that is the principal region of all parts beyond; and it is of the great Chan.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

look each motion of

And why should I here suppress the delight I received from this amiable creature, in remarking each artless look, each motion of pure indissembled nature, betrayed by his wanton eyes; or shewing, transparently, the glow and suffusion of blood through his fresh, clear skin, whilst even his stury rustic pressure wanted not their peculiar charm?
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

literature even many of

On the other hand, there must be something esthetically very fine in the old Chinese literature; even many of the modern young men have a sentimental attachment to it, precisely like that which they have to the fine writing of their characters.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

lived every moment of

He lived every moment of his waking hours, and he lived in his sleep, his subjective mind rioting through his five hours of surcease and combining the thoughts and events of the day into grotesque and impossible marvels.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Let every maiden of

‘Let every maiden of the true faith marry one of the elect; for if she wed a Gentile, she commits a grievous sin.’
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

life every minute of

We were left alone, she suddenly flung herself on my neck (for the first time of her own accord), put her little arms round me, kissed me, and vowed that she would be an obedient, faithful, and good wife, would make me happy, would devote all her life, every minute of her life, would sacrifice everything, everything, and that all she asks in return is my respect , and that she wants ‘nothing, nothing more from me, no presents.’
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

little Ellen Madame Olenska

"I was just saying to him, my dear: 'Now, why didn't you marry my little Ellen?'" Madame Olenska looked at Archer, still smiling.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

lxv Every Man out

; as historical document, xliv ; influence, lxxiv ff .; Every Man in , lvii , lxv ; Every Man out , xix , xx , lvii ; Expostulation with Inigo Jones , xxxix ; Fox , xx , xlix , lxv ; Gipsies Metamorphosed , lxvii ff ., 171 ; Golden Age Restored , xvii ; Love Restored , xxvi ; Magnetic Lady , xxi , lv , lxxvii ; Masque of Beauty , lxvii ; Masque of Queens , lxiv f .; New Inn , xxi ; On the Town’s Honest Man , xl ; Poetaster , xix , xx , lxv f ., lxxvii ; Sad Shepherd , xxvi , lxiv f .; Satyr , xxvi ; Sejanus , xix ; Silent Woman , xlix , lxxvii ; Staple of News , xxi , xl , lxv ; Underwoods 32 , 196 ; Underwoods 36 , lxvi ff ., 170 ; Underwoods 62 , liii , 184 ; Underwoods 64 , lxx .
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

less etherial methods of

And then Bee felt herself carried along by the whirl of strange excitement and feeling which rather than the less etherial methods of an express train seemed to sweep her through the air of the darkening spring night by Mrs. Leigh’s side.
— from The Sorceress (complete) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

low eager murmur of

XXX Linda heard Vigné's laugh, the expression of a sheer lightness of heart, following a low eager murmur of voices in her daughter's room, and she was startled by its resemblance to the gay pitch of Mrs. Moses Feldt's old merriment.
— from Linda Condon by Joseph Hergesheimer

less expensive mode of

Lithography, while a simpler and less expensive mode of making stamps than those previously described, is not often employed for the purpose.
— from What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. (John Nicholas) Luff

looking even more of

There, on its half-draped pedestal, the Roman senator stood, dead white against the purple background, and there, close to the foot of it, the great bulk of the disproportionate nymph still sprawled, finished and whitewashed now, and looking even more of a monstrosity than ever in that waving light.
— from Cleek, the Master Detective by Thomas W. Hanshew

lend either money or

too low, refused absolutely to lend either money or wheat for the sowing.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

leveé en masse of

Had Dr. Cox confined himself to the relation of his own victories in combating madness with vomits, it would have been sufficient; but he endeavours to raise the leveé en masse of medical opinion to co-operate with his sentiments.
— from Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by John Haslam

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