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nor even strictly the ethical Christ
The Athanasian or Nicene Christ, who is the Catholic Christ, is not the cosmological, nor even, strictly, the ethical Christ; he is the eternalizing, the deifying, the religious Christ.
— from Tragic Sense Of Life by Miguel de Unamuno

not emit speech that Ellen could
His own body, directed by the brain of an ape, could not emit speech that Ellen could understand, because the ape could not speak.
— from Astounding Stories, June, 1931 by Various

nuts enough so that each child
If you cannot get the burr, at least have some of the nuts enough so that each child may have one to eat, after the lesson is over.
— from Daily Lesson Plans in English by Caroline Stearns Griffin

new emigrants since the earlier colonial
The chances are that the descendants of the imported stock will be of a richer organization, more florid, more muscular, with mellower voices, than the native whose blood has been unmingled with that of new emigrants since the earlier colonial times.—So talks The Dictator.—I myself think the American will find his English wife concentrates herself more readily and more exclusively on her husband,—for the obvious reason that she is obliged to live mainly in him.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

negative evidence seemed to establish conclusively
This, even though it were only negative evidence, seemed to establish conclusively the fact that Cauvin’s money, whatever might be its source, was not derived from the motor trade.
— from Sant of the Secret Service: Some Revelations of Spies and Spying by William Le Queux

never extinguished so that English Catholics
The family remained Catholic through the Reformation, and the sanctuary lamp in Lanherne Chapel was never extinguished; so that English Catholics have a very special regard for this spot, where the light of their faith still burns brightly after so many centuries.
— from The Cornwall Coast by Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon

now evidence sufficient to establish conclusively
These were the missing members of the same mutilated trunk, and there was now evidence sufficient to establish conclusively that the woman thus collected piecemeal had been barbarously done to death.
— from Chronicles of Newgate, Vol. 2 From the eighteenth century to its demolition by Arthur Griffiths


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