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medicinal appliance from the

Oh, the pipe! won't you have it lit again, father?" said Eppie, lifting that medicinal appliance from the ground.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

made application for the

But nothing short of her faithful love for Mrs. Hale could have made her endure the rough independent way in which all the Milton girls, who made application for the servant's place, replied to her inquiries respecting their qualifications.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

murders and forgets that

Incidentally the murder of Lizaveta served indeed to confirm the last hypothesis: a man commits two murders and forgets that the door is open!
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

me and from them

We returned to the kitchen, where I was regaled by the maids, who seemed to vie with each other in expressing their regard for me; and from them I understood, that my business consisted in cleaning knives and forks, laying the cloth, waiting at table, carrying messages, and attending my lady when she went abroad.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

method and for the

This madness, however, inspires method; and for the first time, perhaps, in his life, the man has something to live for.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

may add for the

I may add, for the information of the curious, that they decidedly failed.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

misrepresented as friends to

There is nothing more unjust than the vulgar opinion, by which physicians are misrepresented, as friends to death.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Meantime Arete for the

Meantime Arete, for the hour of rest, Ordains the fleecy couch, and covering vest; Bids her fair train the purple quilts prepare, And the thick carpets spread with busy care.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Massim and from the

In personal appearance, the Dobuans have a very distinct physique, which differentiates them sharply from the Southern Massim and from the Trobrianders; very dark-skinned, small of stature, with big heads and rounded shoulders, they give a [ 41 ] strange, almost gnome-like impression on a first encounter.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

March and Fisher turned

Then he disappeared behind the trees of the island, and March and Fisher turned to meet the Attorney-General, who was coming out of the house with a visage of grim assurance.
— from The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

mostly away from the

I was a little like the gulls in my habits: on fine days the cliffs and cliff castles were my favourite haunts; in very rough weather my rambles were mostly away from the sea, where I had my old companions of the sea wall, the gulls and daws, still with me.
— from The Land's End: A Naturalist's Impressions In West Cornwall, Illustrated by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

mentioned at first that

In my section they deem their interests more closely identified with those of the South, than with the manufacturing East, and will never permit the mouth of the Mississippi, their great natural highway, to pass into the control of a foreign people, hence it is not improbable that in certain eventualities they would join hands with the South; but I am inclined to believe, as I mentioned at first, that the upshot will be a division into three confederations, and perhaps, as the Pacific States grow in importance, into four."
— from Mark Gildersleeve: A Novel by John S. Sauzade

Much alarmed for the

Much alarmed, for the sound was loud and urgent, she put on a dressing-gown, and ran at the top of her speed to the doctor’s study.
— from Round the Fire Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

money and fixed the

In 1799 the Gov.-General forbade the exportation of money, and fixed the peso at 8 reales fuertes and the real at 17 cuartos.
— from The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule by Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.

murmur arose from the

Then a great din arose in the hall, as is said in the poem: Then a murmur arose from the warriors, And all in the hall drew near, As the warder reported the message of Hlöth: —Everyone lent an ear; And the men all awaited with quivering breath The message of Angantyr.
— from Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes by Nora K. (Nora Kershaw) Chadwick

mightily and fill The

Yea, Muses and Sea-maidens sang his dirge, And mightily the chant arose and shrill, And wondrous echoes answer’d from the surge Of the grey sea, and from the holy hill Of Ida; and the heavy clouds and chill Were gathering like mourners, sad and slow, And Zeus did thunder mightily, and fill The dells and glades of Ida deep with snow.
— from Helen of Troy by Andrew Lang

money and France the

Were, on the other hand, England to give the money, and France the dispositions to place us on the sea in all our force, the whole world, out of the continent of Europe, might be our joint monopoly.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson

must ask for the

And young and inexperienced as he was, he could not do it of himself, and he must ask for the needful wisdom.
— from Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

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