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Languages express national character and

Languages express national character and enshrine particular ways of seeing and valuing events.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

London evening newspaper containing an

As it happened, this aunt, a Miss Beale, was lunching with a friend in Oxford today, and some one showed her an early edition of a London evening newspaper containing an account of the murder.
— from Number Seventeen by Louis Tracy

leaped exultantly nevertheless carefully and

The Spaniard’s blood leaped exultantly; nevertheless, carefully and deliberately, as became his assumed character, he moved to one side of the passage, to clear the way to the trap.
— from The Fair God; or, The Last of the 'Tzins: A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico by Lew Wallace

later every newspaper contained an

Two days later every newspaper contained an "open letter" from Sir John Hampden to the Government, in which he unconditionally offered them, on behalf of the Unity League and in the name of humanity, sufficient funds to pay the half grant for four weeks longer.
— from The Secret of the League: The Story of a Social War by Ernest Bramah

loci eius non cognoverit and

But as this seems a singular clause where there is a venereum to be let, other erudites have seen in it, “Si quis dominam loci eius non cognoverit,” and fancy that they read underneath, “Adeat Suettum Verum,” in which case the whole should mean, “If anybody should not know the lady of the house, let him go to Suettus Verus.”
— from A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times. by Henry Sampson

last exhausted Nature conquered all

At last, exhausted, Nature conquered all else, and, seated on one step, Marjorie folded her arms on the step above, laid her head down upon them, and went to sleep.
— from Marjorie's Vacation by Carolyn Wells

Latin epigrams nothing came amiss

Books at the University, fencing and dancing from the best professors, Italian poetry, French sonnets, Latin epigrams; nothing came amiss to Sidney, the flower of English youth: and Berenger had taste, intelligence, and cultivation enough to enter into all in which Sidney led the way.
— from The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

lightning Enter Numerianus Claudius Aurelius

( A sudden storm of thunder and lightning: Enter Numerianus, Claudius, Aurelius, and others.
— from The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria A Drama of Early Christian Rome by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

laws er naberly conduc as

And bimeby Brer Fox he sorter slid up ker-slump , he did, on his own slide, an' his frens dey done 'fuse m'on m'on to live naberly wid him, see'n ez he'd done broke der laws er naberly conduc' as der beastesses hold 'em.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, December 20, 1890 by Various

londrès exclusively no cigarettes and

The théâtre is made from londrès exclusively, no cigarettes and no tabac de chique are allowed to enter in its composition; the two cheaper brands manufactured are le petit and le gros .
— from Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton

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