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of business and not easily thwarted

“I think she must be by this time, for he’s a prompt man of business, and not easily thwarted when he sets his mind to a thing.”
— from Black Ivory by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

one being a necessary existent the

Crescas's own view is that there are positive attributes, and that there is a relation between God and his creatures, though not a similarity, as they are far apart, the one being a necessary existent, the other a possible existent; one being infinite, the other finite.
— from A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

of boys are not employed to

If a package be removed from his house, a score of boys are not employed to watch whether it be carried to the pawnbroker.
— from McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

of blood and nervous energy to

When you swallow a glass—let us say of brandy-and-water—the stimulating liquid, upon entering into the stomach, excites the blood-vessels and nerves of its internal lining coat, which causes an increased flow of blood and nervous energy to this part.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various

only be a needless exhaustion to

It would only be a needless exhaustion to struggle now, when he would be easily overpowered.
— from The Fiery Totem A Tale of Adventure in the Canadian North-West by C. F. Argyll Saxby

of Boston and near enough to

Bunker's Hill is sufficiently high to overlook any part of Boston and near enough to be within cannon-shot.
— from True to the Old Flag: A Tale of the American War of Independence by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

only bored and not even touched

It is heart-breaking to watch the efforts of a foolish heart to keep a love dying or already dead, to see love, which would once have made a paradise, poured out at the feet of one who is only bored and not even touched by it.
— from The Idler, Volume III., Issue XIII., February 1893 An Illustrated Monthly. Edited By Jerome K. Jerome & Robert Barr by Various

own burdens and not even the

Dignity, you see, brings its own burdens, and not even the greatest can have everything their own way.
— from Quintus Claudius: A Romance of Imperial Rome. Volume 1 by Ernst Eckstein

often becomes a noun escourre to

The feminine form often becomes a noun. escourre, to run out .
— from Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Charles Alfred Downer

or Badakhshan and nearly equal to

There are pears ( nās͟hpātī ) of the best kind, better than those of Kabul, or Badakhshan, and nearly equal to those of Samarkand.
— from The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 2 of 2) by Emperor of Hindustan Jahangir

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