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only be justified through
There is also the conscious realization that an action is being carried out which is forbidden to each individual and which can only be justified through the participation of all, so that no one is allowed to exclude himself from the killing and the feast.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

of boards joined together
An axle is fashioned on a lathe or with the compasses, its ends are shod with iron hoops, and it carries round its middle a tympanum made of boards joined together.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

other breaker Job they
“After that he often came to see me, and when my mouth was healed the other breaker, Job, they called him, went on training me; he was steady and thoughtful, and I soon learned what he wanted.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

ordered by Jackson to
A fresh detachment on its way from east Tennessee, under General White, was ordered by Jackson to relieve the town, and successfully performed this work.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

out but just to
"Bad news?" asked the deputy director casually, not in order to find anything out but just to get K. away from the device.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

only becomes justice through
We have recognised temporal justice , which has its seat in the state, as requiting and punishing, and have seen that this only becomes justice through a reference to the future .
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

order by Jack there
It had been kept in order by Jack; there were servants there, so I gave up my own apartment and went there to live.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

one been justified The
The preparations have every one been justified, The orchestra have sufficiently tuned their instruments, the baton has given the signal.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

of Burgundy John the
--Assassination of the Duke of Burgundy, John the Fearless, on the Bridge of Montereau, in 1419.--Fac-simile of a Miniature in the "Chronicles" of Monstrelet, Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century, in the Library of the Arsenal of Paris.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

only be just to
Having given the British view of the situation it would only be just to give that of the other side.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

older birds join them
Later the older birds join them and the flocks increase in size to several hundred in favorable places.
— from Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) by Arthur Cleveland Bent

on blue jays to
They do not depend on blue jays to carry them to sunny openings or squirrels to plant them; but they will sprout where they fall, whether on hard gravelly soil or dry leaves; and they at once set about getting the tap roots of the future trees into the ground.
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson

only because joined to
[61] A great capacity for cynicism remained a capacity only, because joined to a greater reverence for virtue.
— from Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

occupied by juvenile ticket
At these matinées more than half the seats in the house are occupied by juvenile ticket-holders, from rows of vociferous urchins in the galleries, to round-eyed babies cooing over their nurses' shoulders.
— from Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates

or by jarring the
This pest may be destroyed by hand picking, or by jarring the trees or vines on which they are feeding, when they will fall to the ground and may be crushed or burned.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 by Various

of boys jamming their
More court officials followed, then the bright-gowned musicians on foot, then a confused irrepressible crowd of pilgrims, beggars, saints, mountebanks, and the other small folk of the Bazaar, ending in a line of boys jamming their naked heels into the ribs of world-weary donkeys.
— from In Morocco by Edith Wharton

of brutal jesting the
We were most hospitably received by Mr. Willis, who, the evening after our arrival, after he had been drinking, and as much from the excitement of wine as from a desire to boast, told us, in a horrid tone of brutal jesting, the history of David and Cecily.
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 by Eugène Sue

offered by J T
"The following resolutions were then offered by J. T. Holmes: " Resolved , That we regard the rights of conscience as natural and inalienable, and the most sacred guaranteed by the Constitution of our free Government.
— from The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Embracing His Life, Ministry, and Travels by Parley P. (Parley Parker) Pratt


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