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of Chameleon but

His religious inconstancy was taxed by the epithet of Chameleon, but the Catholics have acknowledged by the voice of a saint and confessors, that the life of the Iconoclast was useful to the republic.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

own consent but

The Commons began by claiming a few municipal privileges; they next asked an exemption for themselves from being taxed without their own consent; but they would at that time have thought it a great presumption to claim any share in the king's sovereign authority.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

only criticism British

9 The only criticism British Freemasons may make on this verdict is that Barruel regards Masonry as a system which originally contained an element of danger that has been eliminated in England whilst they regard it as a system originally innocuous into which a dangerous element was inserted on the Continent.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

or cooled by

It comforts the heart, cherishes the vital spirits, resists the pestilence, and all corrupt airs, which indeed are the natural causes of epidemical diseases, the sick may take a spoonful of it in any convenient cordial, and such as are in health, and have bodies either cold by nature, or cooled by age, may take as much either in the morning fasting, or a little before meat.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

of cold beef

Now he did; he took a real pride in cutting delicate shaves of cold beef, little wads of mutton, just the right thickness, and in dividing a chicken or a duck with nice precision. . . .
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

other couple bestow

When the matron Houyhnhnms have produced one of each sex, they no longer accompany with their consorts, except they lose one of their issue by some casualty, which very seldom happens; but in such a case they meet again; or when the like accident befalls a person whose wife is past bearing, some other couple bestow on him one of their own colts, and then go together again until the mother is pregnant.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

once conveyed by

The reality of all neo-Platonic hypostasis was thus dependent on revelation and on forgetting the meaning once conveyed by the terms so mysteriously transfigured into metaphysical beings.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

or cannot be

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— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

order claimed by

If his genius had been of the high order claimed by some, such a result would have been impossible.
— from Art in America: A Critical and Historial Sketch by S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler) Benjamin

on cried Beatrice

"Come on!" cried Beatrice excitedly.
— from The Gay Adventure: A Romance by Richard Bird

OF CIMARRON BILL

CHAPTER XIII—THE RESCUE OF CIMARRON BILL Opinion has been ever divided as to the true reason of Ogallala’s objection to Cimarron Bill.
— from The Sunset Trail by Alfred Henry Lewis

only child by

Some years later he married a widow from Philadelphia, whose only child by her former marriage was the wife of a banker in that city, Mr. von Francke.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

of Cobden but

“The Minister was honestly convinced,” says Morley, in his “Life of Cobden,” “but the party was not.”
— from Lord Palmerston by Anthony Trollope

or circles but

The patterns in these many-coloured materials are woven from memory, and do not contain curves or circles, but are entirely composed of lines and angles, combinations of small lozenges and squares separated by long tri-coloured parallel lines, forming, so far as weaving is concerned, the main Shoka ideas of decoration and ornament.
— from In the Forbidden Land An account of a journey in Tibet, capture by the Tibetan authorities, imprisonment, torture and ultimate release by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

or consumption by

Population below poverty line: NA% Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 4.3% highest 10%: 22.4% (1996) Distribution of family income - Gini index: 26 (2005) country comparison to the world: 129 25.4 (1996) Investment (gross fixed): 24% of GDP (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 59 Budget: revenues: $93.42 billion expenditures: $96.09 billion (2008 est.)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

our country but

There was a falling off in American wheat exports of 13,500,000 bushels, and the Secretary is inclined to believe that wheat may not in the future be the staple export cereal product of our country, but that corn will continue to advance in importance as an export on account of the new uses to which it is constantly being appropriated.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland by Grover Cleveland

of command but

Promulgating his edicts amidst his peers and prelates, the king uses the language of command; but the theoretical prerogative was modified by usage, and the practice of the constitution required that the law should be accepted by the legislatures (courts) of the several kingdoms.
— from An Essay on the Trial by Jury by Lysander Spooner

of Caesar befell

The fate, which the Roman community had been wont to prepare for the vanquished, now by means of Caesar befell itself; its sovereignty over the Roman empire was converted into a limited communal freedom within the Roman state.
— from The History of Rome, Book V The Establishment of the Military Monarchy by Theodor Mommsen

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