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of a service the

There is one case of a service, the burden of which does not fall upon land even in theory, but the benefit of which might go at common law with land which it benefited.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

of all said to

Suddenly, one of the smiths, answering to the sentiment of all, said to Philip: “La Blanchotte is a good, honest girl, and upright and steady in spite of her misfortune, and would make a worthy wife for an honest man.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

occasions are subject to

The very children know the story of King Croesus to this purpose, who being taken prisoner by Cyrus, and by him condemned to die, as he was going to execution cried out, “O Solon, Solon!” which being presently reported to Cyrus, and he sending to inquire of him what it meant, Croesus gave him to understand that he now found the teaching Solon had formerly given him true to his cost; which was, “That men, however fortune may smile upon them, could never be said to be happy till they had been seen to pass over the last day of their lives,” by reason of the uncertainty and mutability of human things, which, upon very light and trivial occasions, are subject to be totally changed into a quite contrary condition.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

opinion and so they

Each one kept to his own opinion, and so they separated.
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

of a stocking the

To ensure the right proportions between the several parts of a stocking, the following directions should be attended to.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

omnem amoris sensum tollit

3. Sanguis amasiae, ebibitus omnem amoris sensum tollit: Faustinam Marci Aurelii uxorem, gladiatoris amore captam, ita penitus consilio Chaldaeorum liberatam, refert Julius Capitolinus .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

of a sudden to

One day, while he accompanied Mademoiselle in her exercise of music, he pretended all of a sudden to be taken ill, and counterfeited a swoon in her apartment.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

office and spent their

B.C. 248 ( a.u. 506) VIII, 16.—The next year Gaius Aurelius and Publius Servilius took office and spent their time in harrying Lilybæum and Drepanum, in keeping the Carthaginians off the land, and in devastating the region that was in alliance with them.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

of attack seems to

In the direction of Polygon Wood the plan of attack seems to have worked like clockwork.
— from From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Philip Gibbs

of a steamer that

We shall reach the new field in time for the reading of the proclamation, getting there by means of a steamer, that is already plying briskly up and down the river Thames.
— from Brighter Britain! (Volume 2 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by W. Delisle (William Delisle) Hay

of a struggle that

And, leaning there against the shutter, she felt quite dizzy from the violence of a struggle that refused coherent thought or feeling, and was just a dumb pull of instincts, both so terribly strong—how terribly strong she had not till then perceived.
— from Beyond by John Galsworthy

one and sometimes the

For this reason those who are in either extreme lay claim to the mean as a debateable land, and we call the virtuous character sometimes by the name ambitious, sometimes by that of unambitious, and we commend sometimes the one and sometimes the other.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

of a severe type

In my father's house there were not a dozen books, and they were of a severe type.
— from John Greenleaf Whittier: His Life, Genius, and Writings by William Sloane Kennedy

opportunity and swift to

He was quick to see and seize upon opportunity and swift to act.
— from The Valley of Silent Men: A Story of the Three River Country by James Oliver Curwood

of about sixty thousand

It contained, when invested, twenty thousand fighting men, and it was besieged at first by a corps of about sixty thousand.
— from France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer

of a set that

It was one of a set that Francois and Whinstane Sandy had whittled out over a year ago.
— from The Prairie Mother by Arthur Stringer

of another stone that

One of these as a gift to the shepherd had opened his lips wonderfully, and we were talking as we rode in the dusk, and were not so far from the village, of another stone that I was to see next day, when I asked him if he had ever heard of the lost valley of pool and menhir.
— from A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

only a short time

" After completing the work in which he was engaged, he left the house, but was absent only a short time.
— from History of the Prophet Joseph, by His Mother by Lucy Smith

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