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or be lodged in one

For it was the purpose {353} in the mind and in the heart of our fathers who framed the Constitution that each succeeding generation should rise to the duties and responsibilities of the State; that the virtues of the State should not descend or be lodged in one family, or any selected number of families, but rather should be in the keeping of all the families, in the care and keeping of all the people.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

of boundless light is one

Amida, the personification of boundless light, is one of the luxuriant growths of a sickly scholasticism—a hollow abstraction without life or reality.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

one bag laid it on

Then Skrymer bound all their provisions into one bag, laid it on his back, and led the way all the day, taking gigantic strides.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

officers by large increase of

The Senate sought to inspire the zeal of the officers by large increase of salary and promotion in rank and service after a successfully completed expedition, but the rank and file were to be forced to a performance of [Pg 78] their duties by threats of cruel punishments and a continued stay in Siberia.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

of Bingo Little is one

Gussie, you see, wasn't like some of my pals—the name of Bingo Little is one that springs to the lips—who, if turned down by a girl, would simply say, "Well, bung-oh!" and toddle off quite happily to find another.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

opium by leaving it off

3. It will occur to you often to ask, why did I not release myself from the horrors of opium by leaving it off or diminishing it?
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

on but look in our

“I did think of prosecuting him,” the captain went on, “but look in our code, could I get much compensation for a personal injury?
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

of business laid it out

Betsey funded her property for some time, and then, by the advice of her man of business, laid it out on landed security.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

only being lifted in order

When the snare is set, the crotched end of the bait stick will thus rest near the earth, the notched end only being lifted in order to reach the catch piece.
— from Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making by W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson

of Boy Life in Our

Urwick, E. J. , editor of Studies of Boy Life in Our Cities (England), 1904.
— from Child Labor in City Streets by Edward Nicholas Clopper

occupied by large islands or

Thus we must imagine the area of the Pacific now covered by the Polynesian Archipelago, as having been, at some former time, occupied by large islands, or, may be, by a great continent, with the ordinarily diversified surface of plain, and hill, and mountain chain.
— from Autobiography and Selected Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

on board looked it over

On the other hand, as to his faculty for minute observation and prompt action upon it: a captain of one of the great liners between Hamburg and New York told me that when his ship was ready to sail the Emperor came on board, looked it over, and after approving various arrangements said dryly, "Captain, I should think you were too old a sailor to let people give square corners to your tables."
— from Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White

of bird life is only

Their example is being imitated now by 'Young Japan,' and the destruction of bird life is only imperfectly checked by game laws.
— from Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn

of Brossard left it off

The right of making glass being so honorable, since the elder sons of the family of Brossard left it off, the younger have taken it up, and continue it to this day.
— from Reminiscences of Glass-making by Deming Jarves

of brutal lust in order

How can a mother become so forgetful of her own bright youth as to sacrifice a pure, lovely daughter on the altar of brutal lust, in order to satisfy a shallow and selfish vanity?"
— from From Wealth to Poverty; Or, the Tricks of the Traffic. A Story of the Drink Curse by Austin Potter

or Branching Larkspur is of

Of the perennial varieties the Delphinium brunonianum has lovely clear blue, musk-scented flowers; the Chinese or Branching Larkspur is of varied blue tints and tall growth, and blooms from midsummer until frost.
— from Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle

only but likewise in oils

After the death of Bonifazio, who left unfinished the above-mentioned stories of Christ in the Duomo of Cremona, Giovanni Antonio Licinio of Pordenone, called in Cremona De' Sacchi, finished those stories begun by Bonifazio, painting there in fresco five scenes of the Passion of Christ with a grand manner in the figures, bold colouring, and foreshortenings that have vivacity and force; all which things taught the good method of painting to the Cremonese, and not in fresco only, but likewise in oils, for the reason that in the same Duomo, placed against a pilaster in the centre of the church, is an altar-piece by the hand of Pordenone that is very beautiful.
— from Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 08 (of 10) Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero by Giorgio Vasari

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