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of intense disgust and looking

Mr. Weller paused with an aspect of intense disgust, and looking round, added in a whisper, ‘They wos all widders, Sammy, all on ‘em, ‘cept the camomile-tea vun, as wos a single young lady
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

of inconceivable difficulty and labour

Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing animation, yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it, with all its intricacies of fibres, muscles, and veins, still remained a work of inconceivable difficulty and labour.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

of idleness dissipation and luxury

Her thoughts were silently fixed on the irreparable injury which too early an independence and its consequent habits of idleness, dissipation, and luxury, had made in the mind, the character, the happiness, of a man who, to every advantage of person and talents, united a disposition naturally open and honest, and a feeling, affectionate temper.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

other in darkness at length

All are then immediately guided towards this beacon; and these wandering minds, which had long sought each other in darkness, at length meet and unite.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

of infinite do at last

It is plain from hence, that, when we talk of infinite divisibility of body or extension, our distinct and clear ideas are only of numbers: but the clear distinct ideas of extension, after some progress of division, are quite lost; and of such minute parts we have no distinct ideas at all; but it returns, as all our ideas of infinite do, at last to that of NUMBER ALWAYS TO BE ADDED; but thereby never amounts to any distinct idea of ACTUAL INFINITE PARTS.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

of infinite deference and lowering

The story-teller, who was just putting a glass of wine to his lips, as a refreshment after his toils, paused for a moment, looked at his inquirer with an air of infinite deference, and, lowering the glass slowly to the table, observed that the story was intended most logically to prove-- “That there is no situation in life but has its advantages and pleasures--provided we will but take a joke as we find it: “That, therefore, he that runs races with goblin troopers is likely to have rough riding of it.
— from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

open its doors And let

219 When of this period I wrote: I know not how of a sudden my heart flung open its doors, And let the crowd of worlds rush in, greeting each other,— it was no poetic exaggeration.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

of identification drew at length

The establishment, from time to time, of numerous points of identification, drew at length from geologists a reluctant admission, that there was more correspondence between the condition of the globe at remote eras and now, and more uniformity in the laws which have regulated the changes of its surface, than they at first imagined.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

of its doctrines and laws

e, and the wisdom, goodness, mercy, and justice of its doctrines and laws have been judged to be unimpeachable.
— from Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist. by Thomas Inman

of iniquity declared Aunt Lucy

“But the harems are dens of iniquity,” declared Aunt Lucy, sternly.
— from Daughters of Destiny by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

of its development a large

The oldest lava known is hornblende andesite, which is now in an advanced state of disintegration, and it seems probable that in the early stages of its development a large proportion of the lavas ejected from Mt. Shasta were of the same mineralogical constitution.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, July 1885, No. 10 by Chautauqua Institution

of it decreased a little

As they got farther from the funnel of land down which the wind came, the force of it decreased a little, and they hoisted the upper yards on the mainmast.
— from The Capsina: An Historical Novel by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

of its direction a lofty

He brought to the political philosophy of his generation a sense of its direction, a lofty vigour of purpose, and a full knowledge of its complexity, such as no other statesman has ever possessed.
— from Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Harold Joseph Laski

of isolated disconnected and lawless

The method hitherto most prevalent, of treating the history of human thought as a series of isolated, disconnected, and lawless movements, without unity and purpose; and the practice of denouncing the religions and philosophies of the ancient world as inventions of satanic mischief, or as the capricious and wicked efforts of humanity to relegate itself from the bonds of allegiance to the One Supreme Lord and Lawgiver, have, in his judgment, been prejudicial to the interests of all truth, and especially injurious to the cause of Christianity.
— from Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

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