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of bone in the

This difference in the species is no doubt imputable in no small degree to the greater quantity of bone in the Right Whale; his Venetian blinds alone sometimes weighing more than a ton; from this incumbrance the Sperm Whale is wholly free.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

of battle in the

31 The resistance was pretty real to Colonel Edwards then, i.e. , the Benevolent Assimilation was quite strenuous, and it continued to be so until his great commander was shot through the breast in the forefront of battle in the hour of victory in December thereafter, and the colonel came home with the general’s body.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

only been instructed to

At that moment the soldiers had only been instructed to prevent their meeting in the Palace of the Assembly; they could quietly form themselves into a column in the street, and set forth.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

of breath in the

Thus, to take examples, suppose there is a deficiency of breath in the body, the air, to which is assigned the function of making up the deficiency, performs that service.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

one behind it that

Whether or not the Venta de Quesada on the Seville road is, as tradition maintains, the inn described in "Don Quixote," beyond all question it was just such an inn-yard as the one behind it that Cervantes had in his mind's eye, and it was on just such a rude stone trough as that beside the primitive draw-well in the corner that he meant Don Quixote to deposit his armour.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

officer began in the

"With this reverse," says a French naval officer, "began in the French people a regrettable reaction against the navy.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

on belief in the

and NOT a world-explanation; but in so far as it is based on belief in the senses, it is regarded as more, and for a long time to come must be regarded as more—namely, as an explanation.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

of beauty is the

This struggle between the reason and its ideas, and the senses, the desire of beauty, is the key to Leonardo's life at Milan—his restlessness, his endless re-touchings, his odd experiments with colour.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

of Beneficence in the

The general establishment of medical aid for men and animals is alluded to in the edicts of Asoka;[1] and hospitals for the diseased and destitute were found by Fahian at Palibothra, whilst Hiuen Tsang speaks of the distribution of food and medicine at the Punyasálás or "Houses of Beneficence," in the Panjáb.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

of books I took

Being naturally lazy myself (except as to the reading of books), I took a great pleasure in watching grandmother.
— from The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

of boss in this

I'm a kind of boss in this house now.
— from Sir Tom by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

one bundle inside the

So they drove on through the gloom, forming one bundle inside the sail-cloth, the horse going as he would, and the rain driving against them.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

of being impolite to

And least of all," said Mrs. Wilson, with a friendly smile, as she rose to leave the room, "would I suffer a fear of being impolite to endanger the happiness of a young woman intrusted to my care.
— from Precaution: A Novel by James Fenimore Cooper

of Bembge in the

It was written by Michael the monk of the city of Bembge in the year 1074 (i.e. a.d. 1358), except the last leaf, which was supplied in 1220 (i.e. a.d. 1504).
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

or break in the

Indeed, it is one of the reproaches urged against the Church of Rome, that it has originated nothing, and has only served as a sort of remora or break in the development of doctrine.
— from Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

only but if the

84 In Eastern Tibet the murderer of a man of the upper class is fined 120 bricks of tea, the murderer of a middle-class man only 80, and so on down through the social scale, the life of a beggar being valued at a nominal amount only; but if the victim was a lama, the murderer has to pay a much higher price, possibly 300 bricks.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

own brother is the

"I am extremely sorry that my own brother is the leader of the ruffians, and I did not expect to see him engaged in such a work.
— from Brother Against Brother; Or, The War on the Border by Oliver Optic

on board in time

While discussing the afternoon's amusement, we walked to the bund in the twilight, and a twelve-oared cutter soon took us on board in time for dinner.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 721 October 20, 1877 by Various

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