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on drinking eating caviare and

He spoke, screwing up his drunken eyes, while his friends went on drinking, eating caviare, and listening.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

of doors even children and

Now in the country, people live so much more out of doors, even children, and even in the winter.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

of dreaming enthusiasts c and

Note 11 ( return ) [ The author of the Philopatris perpetually treats the Christians as a company of dreaming enthusiasts, &c.; and in one place he manifestly alludes to the vision in which St. Paul was transported to the third heaven.
— 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 DOMESTIC EDUCATION Comprising a

AN EASY COURSE OF DOMESTIC EDUCATION; Comprising a Series of Elementary Treatises on the various Branches of Juvenile Instruction; together with Advice to Parents and Tutors for conducting the Education of Children.
— from Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land by Thomas Reid

other directly exciting cause and

Here we have extremely hard woody tissue without the possibility of any movement, and without, as far as we can see, any other directly exciting cause; and as the hardness of these parts is of manifest service to the plant, we may look at the result as probably due to the selection of so-called spontaneous variations.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

of dolichocephaly elongated cranium and

Similarly, the different races exhibit forms determined by biological factors and not by mechanical causes—for instance, the degree of dolichocephaly (elongated cranium) and of brachycephaly (short cranium).
— from Pedagogical Anthropology by Maria Montessori

of deep excitement calculating and

He spent many long nights of deep excitement, calculating and arranging the development of these seductive intimations.
— from Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

other Dutch enthusiasts came after

Dr. Meyers followed in 1873, and many other Dutch enthusiasts came after him during the next few years.
— from The Savage South Seas by E. Way (Ernest Way) Elkington

one ducat eight carlins and

A woman who has taken a beverage to procure an abortion, or the father who has caused her to take it, shall pay four tournois, one ducat, eight carlins; and if a stranger has given her the said beverage, he shall pay four tournois, one ducat, five carlins.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 by Voltaire

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