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or courage to oppose

I did not care what became of my wretched body: and wanting life, spirits, or courage to oppose the least struggle, even that of the modesty of my sex, I suffered, tamely, whatever the gentleman pleased; who proceeding insensibly from freedom to freedom, insinuating his hand between my handkerchief and bosom, which he handled at discretion: finding thus no repulse, and that every thing favoured, beyond expectation, the completion of his desires, he took me in his arms, and bore me, without life or motion, to the bed, on which laying me gently downed, and having me at what advantage he pleased, I did not so much as know what he was about, till recovering from a trance of lifeless insensibility, I found him buried in me, whilst I lay passive and innocent of the least sensations of pleasure: a death-cold corpse could scarce have less life or sense in it.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

of ceremonies types of

Also, systems of magic, connected series of ceremonies, types of legal acts, all could be charted, allowing each entry to be synoptically defined under a number of headings.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

one called the Old

On leaving the Bosporus we come to the Gulf of Casthenes 2559 , and two harbours, the one called the Old Men’s Haven, and the other the Women’s Haven.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

of choice the other

9) prefers the rustic life of Theodosius to that of Cincinnatus; the one was the effect of choice, the other of poverty.
— 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

of certain types of

Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

of chestnut trees opposite

This house was in good condition, before it a garden, forming a terrace; below that on the declivity an orchard, and on the ascent, behind the house, a vineyard: a little wood of chestnut trees opposite; a fountain just by, and higher up the hill, meadows for the cattle; in short, all that could be thought necessary for the country retirement we proposed to establish.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

or Chanda tax or

Tsanda or Chanda (tax or subscription).—An exogamous sept of Kamma and Mēdara.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

old customs their own

To judge of the intensity of religious feeling in the Irish, it should be remembered that it was the only legacy left them after every thing else had been taken away, and, though it was the special object of attack, they were to be stripped one by one of their old customs, their own chieftains, their houses of study and of prayer, their religious and secular teachers, nay, of the chance even of educating their children, of the right to possess not merely their own soil, but even to cultivate a few acres of it, nay, of their very language itself, in a word, of all that makes a country dear to man.
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

or cause to occur

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— from The Promise of World Peace by Universal House of Justice

one can tell of

And he looked highly scandalized—proud and happy, too, for it's not every day one can tell of a cousin who fights duels.
— from The Hand of the Mighty, and Other Stories by Vaughan Kester

Of course thousands of

Of course, thousands of people will be prophesying that this man is to be snubbed and another to be paid; but, in my judgment, after the 4th of March most people will say that General Garfield has used his power wisely and that he has neither sought nor shunned men simply because he wished to pay debts—either of love or hatred.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

of civilisation that our

It is in the highest sense of the word a mission of civilisation that our nation has here fulfilled.
— from The Coming Conquest of England by August Niemann

Olympian creature think of

What would that Olympian creature think of the drudge of New Utrecht, a mere reviewer who sold his editorial copies to pay for shag tobacco!
— from Shandygaff A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to the Reader by Christopher Morley

only convince them of

Time, and some acquaintance with us, can only convince them of the latter.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Robert Kerr

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