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our collective unconscious Lester laughed
“So this is the story that has emerged from our collective unconscious?” Lester laughed.
— from Makers by Cory Doctorow

of Cornell University Law Library
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— from Life and Confession of Sophia Hamilton Who was Tried, Condemned and Sentenced to be Hung, at Montreal, L. C. on the 4th of August, 1845, for the Perpetration of the Most Shocking Murders and Daring Robberies Perhaps Recorded in the Annals of Crime by William H. Jackson

of Cornell University lived long
Another traveller, the American geologist, Professor Hartt of Cornell University, lived long among the tribes of the Amazon.
— from Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

out comfortably upon level land
The city clings to the sides of a ravine after the perverse manner of cities, instead of spreading itself out comfortably upon level land.
— from An American Girl Abroad by Adeline Trafton

or competition unless like loving
I own I do wish—most ardently wish for a total extinction of all party: particularly—that those of English, Irish, and Scotch might never more be brought into contest or competition, unless, like loving brothers, in generous emulation, for one common cause.
— from The Man of the World (1792) by Charles Macklin


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