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mee now growne ruinous
F ATHER of Heaven, and him, by whom It, and us for it, and all else, for us Thou madest, and govern'st ever, come And re-create mee, now growne ruinous: 5
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

may not genuinely remember
The child may not genuinely remember the incident, but only have the habit of the appropriate words, as in the case of a poem which we know by heart, though we cannot remember learning it.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

must naturally give rise
Apart, however, from the inevitable conclusion, a priori that such causes must produce such effects——that the well-known occurrence of such cases of suspended animation must naturally give rise, now and then, to premature interments—apart from this consideration, we have the direct testimony of medical and ordinary experience to prove that a vast number of such interments have actually taken place.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

must not go round
"But she must not go round by London," cried Marianne, in the same hurried manner.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Massachusetts Nathaniel Gorham Rufus
New Hampshire John Langdon Nicholas Gilman Massachusetts Nathaniel Gorham Rufus King Connecticut Wm.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

mean not getting rich
Bless his dear heart, he's been doing it all his life,—helping poor boys, I mean, not getting rich; that he'll never be; money doesn't stay in his pocket long enough to lay up any.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

might never grow rich
“You might either grow rich quickly or you might never grow rich at all.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

might not gradually reconcile
" "There is hardly any personal defect," replied Anne, "which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

mean not getting rich
Bless his dear heart, he's been doing it all his life—helping poor boys, I mean, not getting rich, that he'll never be.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

might naturally give rise
A current interfered with might naturally give rise to a modified sensation.
— from Psychology: Briefer Course by William James

manifest no greater regard
To find the true character of man, you must look to his homespun, everyday dress; if you do this, will you not find a full proportion of good Republicans, as they are called, who exhibit no more of that virtue called humility than their neighbors, and who manifest no greater regard for equal rights?
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

made no graven retaliation
, the king returned it in a way that must have mortified and wounded the artist, who, though he was tremblingly alive to professional indignity, made no graven retaliation .
— from Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 1 (of 3) by John Ireland

Manila New Guinea Rockhampton
Here they transhipped into a German vessel that took then via Hong-kong, Manila, New Guinea, Rockhampton, and Brisbane, to Sydney.
— from South with Scott by Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, baron

must not give religious
My child, we must not give religious faith To every voice which makes the heart a listener 35 To its own wish.
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

medium never gets results
At the same time the whole system of paying by results, which is practically the present system, since if a medium never gets results he would soon get no payments, is a vicious one.
— from The New Revelation by Arthur Conan Doyle

Messer Nicolas Grignan returned
Jehannot being thus in the service of Messer Conrado , it fortuned that a daughter of his, named Spina , being the Widdow of one Messer Nicolas Grignan , returned home to her Fathers House.
— from The Decameron (Day 1 to Day 5) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels by Giovanni Boccaccio


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