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lost within the

Caius and Lucius he lost within the space of eighteen months; the former dying in Lycia, and the latter at Marseilles.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

leave Winesburg to

He was about to leave Winesburg to go away to some city where he hoped to get work on a city newspaper and he felt grown up.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

look within themselves

They look within themselves—and find nothing!
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

law with the

" Comparing the one law with the other, there can be no doubt that the requisition of Masonry is and always has been, that admission could only be granted to him who was neither deformed nor dismembered, but of hale and entire limbs as a man should be.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Latin women that

Straightway spoke she thus to Turnus' sister, goddess to goddess, lady of pools and noisy rivers: such worship did Jupiter the high king of air consecrate to her for her stolen virginity: 'Nymph, grace of rivers, best beloved of our soul, thou knowest how out of all the Latin women that ever rose to high-hearted Jove's thankless bed, thee only have I preferred and gladly given part and place in heaven.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

last word to

Groskurd proposes to add the word ὥς before καὶ καμήλους, “as camels.” Coraÿ changes the last word to ἀχαλίνους, which is adopted in the translation.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

letters whom they

And what wisdom could there be in Egypt before Isis had given them letters, whom they thought fit to worship as a goddess after her death?
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

lady was to

Naturally, Sisa did not understand such Tagalog, and this ignorance calmed the Medusa’s wrath, for one of the beautiful qualities of this lady was to try not to know Tagalog, or at least to appear not to know it.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Lybia whoso turneth

In this land of Lybia whoso turneth toward the east, the shadow of himself is on the right side; and here, in our country, the shadow is on the left side.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

lad watched the

Joe and Wetzel made camp on the bank of a stream that night, and as the lad watched the hunter build a hidden camp-fire, he peered furtively around half expecting to see dark forms scurrying through the forest.
— from The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley by Zane Grey

long will this

14:11 Yahweh said to Moses, How long will this people despise me?
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

large with their

The palpi are large, with their apices nearly touching, and furnished with long spines.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

long wuz talkin

'Long ’bout six in de mawnin’ skifts begin to go by, en ’bout eight er nine every skift dat went ’long wuz talkin’ ’bout how yo’ pap come over to de town en say you’s killed.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

laden with the

Half a mile east of the city passes from the south Wad Marteen, (the Cus of Marmol) which disembogues into the sea; on its banks is the little port of Marteen or Marteel, not quite two miles distant from the coast, and about three from the city, where a good deal of commerce is carried on, small vessels, laden with the produce of Barbary, sailing thence to Spain, Gibraltar, and even France and Italy.
— from Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. by James Richardson

Lochinvar was the

For Wullcat Wat of Lochinvar was the gayest, brightest, most reckless blade in the world.
— from The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

lie with the

‘Better be drowned,’ I said to myself, ‘than lie with the Chinese,’ and I threw it into the lake.” “No, no, stop digging!” interrupted the younger man, with a cry of horror, and throwing down his spade he sprang out of the grave.
— from An Eagle Flight: A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

long white thing

It was pretty dim in there, but as soon as our eyes got used to it we could see a long white thing laying across the beams above our heads.
— from Mark Tidd in the Backwoods by Clarence Budington Kelland

Lance with the

It was in the early days of their stay, that Lance, with the air of a boy disclosing to some chosen companion a long-cherished treasure, took her by a circuitous way up the steep wall of their little valley, and helping her around a big boulder and through a thicket of laurel, showed her the opening of a cave.
— from The Wiving of Lance Cleaverage by Alice MacGowan

Little wonder that

LAST ROUND WITH THE BISHOPS Little wonder that Francois Langelier, his brother Charles, and other associates of Laurier in the lean years of proscription were consumed with indignation that Laurier should pass them by to associate with his former enemies.
— from Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics by John Wesley Dafoe

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