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magical effects superstitious cures and

The like we may say of our magical effects, superstitious cures, and such as are done by mountebanks and wizards.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Metióse en su cuarto a

Metióse en su cuarto a punto que la señorita bajaba a la huerta.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Manichaeorum et similium c Ammian

Note 3 ( return ) [ Constantinus enim, cum limatius superstitionum quaeroret sectas, Manichaeorum et similium, &c. Ammian.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

mondo e sanza cura aver

Lo duca e io per quel cammino ascoso intrammo a ritornar nel chiaro mondo; e sanza cura aver d'alcun riposo, salimmo su`, el primo e io secondo, tanto ch'i' vidi de le cose belle che porta 'l ciel, per un pertugio tondo.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

moral energy so closely analogous

This moral energy, so closely analogous to physical interplay, is of course not without a material basis.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

married everything seemed clear and

And now for the first time since they had met and married, everything seemed clear and settled between her and her husband.
— from One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick

most excellent short concise and

When read, however, the substance of his answer was most excellent, short, concise, and, if it had been delivered by word of mouth, would have been all that the occasion required.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

most entertaining stories centering about

This is one of the most entertaining stories centering about a girl's school that has ever been written.
— from Polly and Eleanor by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

my eyes soon caught a

All doubt upon the subject was put an end to by the sight of a caricature which was passed from hand to hand along the forms, and which my eyes soon caught a glimpse of.
— from Coward or Hero? by Eugène (Dramatist) Leclerc

Miss Eulie she came and

Miss Eulie, she came and rejoiced over me that mornin', and my wife she looked so solemn (she allers does when she says she feels glad) that somehow I got nervous, and then my wife went to the store and didn't get the kind of terbacker I sent for, and I knew the cork was going to fly out.
— from Opening a Chestnut Burr by Edward Payson Roe

milk eggs sheeps cheese and

The entire lamb, on a great wooden platter, an enormous bowl of milk, eggs, sheeps' cheese, and unlimited spirits.
— from The Land of the Black Mountain: The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro by Reginald Wyon

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