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only by experienced and

There is hardly any kind of intellectual work which so much needs to be done not only by experienced and exercised minds, but by minds trained to the task through long and laborious study, as the business of making laws.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

opinion by every argument

Boys go nutting, and I don't care to be bagged by them," returned Jo, pasting away at the kite which no wind that blows would ever carry up, for Daisy had tied herself on as a bob. Meg laughed, for she was glad to see a glimmer of Jo's old spirit, but she felt it her duty to enforce her opinion by every argument in her power, and the sisterly chats were not wasted, especially as two of Meg's most effective arguments were the babies, whom Jo loved tenderly.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

of broken English and

I had a grotesque mask made, with an immense nose and moustaches, talked a jumble of broken English and German, in which the latter greatly predominated; and had crowds round me laughing at my droll accent, and whose curiosity was increased by a knowledge of my previous history.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

of being estimated and

It has perhaps seemed somewhat idle, as suggesting a purely abstract and theoretical perplexity, that could have no practical exemplification; and no doubt, if all the consequences of actions were capable of being estimated and summed up with mathematical precision, we should probably never find the excess of pleasure over pain exactly equal in the case of two competing alternatives of conduct.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

obscure by excessive affectation

But he rendered his style obscure by excessive affectation and abstruseness, so that he was thought to speak better extempore, than in a premeditated discourse.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

of believers even as

Wherefore it behoves your Highness, as being a member of Christ, in all things continually to follow the pious rule of the chief of the Apostles, in celebrating Easter, and in all things delivered by the holy Apostles, Peter and Paul, whose doctrine daily enlightens the hearts of believers, even as the two lights of heaven illumine the world.”
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

or both eyes are

One or both eyes are blind, or color-blind, or there is hemianopsia (blindness to one half the field of view), or the field is contracted.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

or by extension any

tiyù, tíyù n term of address for one’s parents’ brother or male cousins, or by extension, any man older than the speaker.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

of blockheaded Encyclopćdias Anglicanas

To view a well-arranged assortment of blockheaded Encyclopćdias (Anglicanas or Metropolitanas) set out in an array of Russia, or Morocco, when a tithe of that good leather would comfortably re-clothe my shivering folios; would renovate Paracelsus himself, and enable old Raymund Lully to look like himself again in the world.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

or by extraction and

He is supposed to have been a Greek by birth or by extraction, and had for some time served in the capacity of a deacon under Stephen.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

of being embarrassed and

Bazarov himself was conscious of being embarrassed, and was irritated by it.
— from Fathers and Children by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

of being eaten alive

“Well, at last I was for giving in; was looking for a place to sit down comfortably, and put the muzzle of my piece to my ear and finish off; for I couldn’t stand the idea of being eaten alive by those filthy devils, as would have happened when I got too weak to beat them off—when I came plump into a gang of wandering Bushmen.
— from Renshaw Fanning's Quest: A Tale of the High Veldt by Bertram Mitford

our battles Each at

And I would mildly suggest that each package of crinoline be accompanied by the following appropriate lines: Now, while our soldiers are fighting our battles, Each at his post to do all that he can, Down among rebels and contraband chattels, What are you doing, my sweet little man?
— from Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by S. Emma E. (Sarah Emma Evelyn) Edmonds

of buildings extending along

[Pg 74] had not so completely disappeared, it seems that this part of Nero’s palace consisted of a long straight façade of buildings extending along the slope of the Esquiline from east to west in the direction marked on the plan (A-B).
— from Old Rome: A Handbook to the Ruins of the City and the Campagna by Robert Burn

other brown eyes above

She is gazing up into those other brown eyes above her, and is fascinated, as most others are, by Jack Kirke’s face—a face stern in repose, and far from beautiful, but lit up by a smile as bright as God’s own sunlight, and as kind.
— from Ruby: A Story of the Australian Bush by Molly E. Jamieson

of belted earl and

He approaches it with ceremony—with the ceremony of phrases like 'the great painter Autumn,' 'a very tiger to the rabbit,' 'the titles and pomp of belted earl and knight.'
— from The Hills and the Vale by Richard Jefferies

over by eight and

It had been all over by eight-and-twenty and he could find it in his heart to grieve that he had ever given a thought to love again.
— from Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

OF BISHOP EARLE AX

No. I. SOME ACCOUNT OF BISHOP EARLE [AX] .
— from Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle

of Brant entering at

J. B. M. A TREATISE ON THE SIX NATION INDIANS INTRODUCTORY As knowledge of the traditions, manners, and national traits of the Indians, composing, originally, the six distinct and independent tribes of the Mohawks, Tuscaroras, Onondagas, Senecas, Oneidas, and Cayugas; tribes now merged in, and known as, the Six Nations, possibly, does not extend beyond the immediate district in which they have effected a lodgment, I have laid upon myself the task of tracing their history from the date of their settlement in the County of Brant, entering, at the same time, upon such accessory treatment as would seem to be naturally suggested or embraced by the plan I have set before me.
— from A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians by J. B. Mackenzie

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