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not even what they
Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

not even when the
I never fastened my door night or day, though I was to be absent several days; not even when the next fall I spent a fortnight in the woods of Maine.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

not endued with that
Every Ray of Light has therefore two opposite Sides, originally endued with a Property on which the [Pg 361] unusual Refraction depends, and the other two opposite Sides not endued with that Property.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

not eternal whether they
Wherefore, although everything eternal is not therefore blessed (for hell-fire is eternal), yet if no life can be [Pg 451] truly and perfectly blessed except it be eternal, the life of these angels was not blessed, for it was doomed to end, and therefore not eternal, whether they knew it or not.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

night ended with the
My night ended with the morning.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

name Elf with the
They have identified their name (Elf) with the Alps, given nearly every tarn an evil fame, and indeed created a special class of demons, ‘Montagnards,’ much dreaded by mediæval miners, whose faces they sometimes twisted so that they must look backward physically, as they were much in the habit of doing mentally, for ever afterward.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

no end which the
Societies are formed to resist enemies which are exclusively of a moral nature, and to diminish the vice of intemperance: in the United States associations are established to promote public order, commerce, industry, morality, and religion; for there is no end which the human will, seconded by the collective exertions of individuals, despairs of attaining.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

not exceeding what the
Justice demands, even when the suffrage does not depend on it, that the means of attaining these elementary acquirements should be within the reach of every person, either gratuitously, or at an expense not exceeding what the poorest, who can earn their own living, can afford.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

next excursions were to
Our next excursions were to the famous royal "pleasure gardens" of the Emperor Jehangir, at Shalimar and Nishat Bagh.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Nowhere else were there
Nowhere else were there such mammoth dandelions or such prickly burrs.
— from Dandelion Cottage by Carroll Watson Rankin

not even wish to
I do not even wish to mention all the Kaffirs which the enemy have on their side and who help (p. 196) them.
— from The peace negotiations between the governments of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, and the representatives of the British government, which terminated in the peace concluded at Vereeniging on the 31st May, 1902 by J. D. (John Daniel) Kestell

not end with this
It rang out sweetly over the lonely, brooding stillness of the lake, so that they did not end with this first song, but followed each other with their favorite airs.
— from In Paradise: A Novel. Vol. II by Paul Heyse

now even with thy
The sweet star of faith is already rising over thy grief; the clouds, all bright and shining with hues caught from heavenly skies, are no longer dark and rayless; and now, even with thy lonely bleeding heart, canst thou humbly receive the chastisement from Him who doeth all things well.
— from Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

nature encircled with the
But the homely features of the clownish goddess could hardly be traced in the refined, the saintly form which, spiritualised by ages of religious evolution, she presented to her worshippers of after days as the true wife, the tender mother, the beneficent queen of nature, encircled with the nimbus of moral purity, of immemorial and mysterious sanctity.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

news er what Timotheus
Even his brother Joel don't know, an' won't know this week, but next week the taown will be 'baout wild with the news er what Timotheus has done.
— from Randy and Her Friends by Amy Brooks


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