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magic of his alchemy may extend to
The magic of his alchemy may extend to himself, and make him for days another person, or even an animal.
— from The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training by Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux

my own history and more especially to
I wish to say a few words in my own person relating to some passages in my own history, and more especially to some of the recent experiences through which I have been passing.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

making of herself a mystery employing that
She hid her thoughts from him, making of herself a mystery, employing that coquetry which, to the seeing eye, has at the bottom nothing but pathos.
— from In the Name of Liberty: A Story of the Terror by Owen Johnson

matter of hotel accommodation meals etc the
[According to a report in a daily paper, at the recent Peace Conference held at Spa, where the delegates were royally entertained in the matter of hotel accommodation, meals, etc., the cigar bill (which has been sent in to the League of Nations and sent out again) amounted to three thousand two hundred pounds.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920 by Various

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