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of carrying the experiment to the end

I was about to withdraw and place it in the proper orifice when a convulsive pressure of the sphincter caused me such exquisite satisfaction by the pressure of the folds on the more sensitive upper half of my prick, which was so delicious, and so much tighter, and more exciting than my previous experience of the cunt that I could not resist the temptation of carrying the experiment to the end.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

our Chronicles that Edward the Third ever

I do not find in any of our Chronicles, that Edward the Third ever reconnoitred the Enemy, tho' he often discovered the Posture of the French , and as often vanquished them in Battel.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

of carrying the enterprise to the end

That showed me that consent on my part was important—which meant that he saw no possible way of carrying the enterprise to the end we had mapped out unless I stepped into the gap.
— from Frenzied Finance, Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Thomas William Lawson

of conducting the electricity to the earth

The wires which convey the electricity from station to station, are made of galvanized iron (iron coated with zinc), and must be kept from all communication with the earth by some substance incapable of conducting it; they are therefore stretched between wooden poles ( fig. 8 ), and rest upon sockets or supports of glass or glazed earthenware, which are both substances incapable of conducting the electricity to the earth ( fig. 9 ).
— from The Boy's Book of Industrial Information by Elisha Noyce

of Cannibalism The expectation that the end

Western Christendom Disordered Rumors of Cannibalism The expectation that the end of the world was to come about the year 1000 was, for a century before that date, well-nigh universal and dominant.
— from Peter the Hermit: A Tale of Enthusiasm by Daniel A. (Daniel Ayres) Goodsell

of course to explain to the elderly

I'd paused a moment, of course, to explain to the elderly guard who had first saluted me, just why I was there and whom I wanted to see.
— from Mars is My Destination by Frank Belknap Long

of combustion to escape through the exhaust

The exhaust valve, Fig. 9, though not exactly of the form shown, is kept open during the whole of this return stroke by means of the eccentric, e 3 , on the shaft working the ratchet, and thus allowing the products of combustion to escape through the exhaust pipe, i 7 , in the direction of the arrow.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 by Various

of Chester they even to the end

And besides South Wales, including Cornwall, Devonshire, and the greater portion of Somersetshire, the old race still held a large district to the north of Wales, called Strathclyde, taking in Galloway and other districts in the south-east of what is now Scotland; together with Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, down to the river Dee, and the city of Chester; they, even to the end of the sixth century, held portions of west Yorkshire, including Leeds.
— from Bygone Scotland: Historical and Social by David Maxwell

often confined their efforts to the eulogy

If in other times they had too often confined their efforts to the eulogy of particular princes, now it was otherwise.
— from The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde by George Sigerson

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