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of course the less easy to

The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

other city there lay encamped two

About the other city there lay encamped two hosts in gleaming armour, and they were divided whether to sack it, or to spare it and accept the half of what it contained.
— from The Iliad by Homer

of course to lie exposed to

We did not want for food, for we had the meat of an elk, killed by the Iroquois when we first entered the valley; but as a fire lighted on the island would have been seen by the Sircies, we had of course to lie exposed to the violence of the tempest, without chance of drying our dripping clothes or of warming our chilled bodies.
— from Red Cloud, the Solitary Sioux: A Story of the Great Prairie by Butler, William Francis, Sir

of childhood their long exhausting thought

She recalled, in the hushed reconciliation of the present, while they saw and thought in unison, breaking their long silences with anecdotes, re-living together all they could remember of childhood, their long exhausting, thought-transforming controversies.
— from Deadlock: Pilgrimage, Volume 6 by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson

of commencement then let everybody that

By way of commencement, then, let everybody that has sufficient leisure set to work, and rear as many silkworms, of the above-named species, as he possibly can; and if the process be not remunerative in a pecuniary sense, it most assuredly will be in the amount of pleasure and knowledge obtained.
— from Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. by Various

other contains the lazy element the

The remaining majority are divided into two sections, one of which consists of what are termed boys of average ability, whilst the other contains the lazy element, the refractory boys, and the dullards.
— from The Curse of Education by Harold Edward Gorst

of course the law even to

" "Yes, of course, the law even to-day recognizes the right to exercise physical discipline within the family.
— from Tutt and Mr. Tutt by Arthur Cheney Train

our chapeau to Liberty Enlightening the

When our own home port is sighted and the sensation the appearance of a custom-house officer always creates is over, and the welcome "O. K." is visible on our luggage, we feel like taking off our chapeau to "Liberty Enlightening the World."
— from My Trip Around the World: August, 1895-May, 1896 by Eleonora Hunt

of churches to labor earnestly to

This is brought out clearly and distinctly in two decrees that have for us in this section of country the full force of law—a decree of the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore, and another decree of the Third Provincial Council of New York: “That all may be done according to prescribed order, and that the solemn rites of the church may be preserved in their integrity, we admonish pastors of churches to labor earnestly to remove those abuses which in our country have crept into the church chant.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

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