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of its narrowness the

Where these rivers unite, one very narrow river is formed out of the two; and on account of its narrowness the current is swift.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

one is not the

Thus it becomes evident that the real table, if there is one, is not the same as what we immediately experience by sight or touch or hearing.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

other is natural to

But now this is a quality which laws possess; while the other is natural to the human soul.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

of Island Number Ten

On the 21st General Pope arrived with an army 30,000 strong, fresh from the capture of Island Number Ten in the Mississippi River.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

of it nothing to

They had a gay life of it; nothing to do but ride about on trains all day and go to theatres when they were in big cities.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

Oh I never thought

Oh, I never thought I’d live to see the day when I’d have to sell my home.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

often is not the

The reading of Q in The Storme , l. 38, Yea, and the Sunne for the usual I, and the Sunne suggests, what is probably correct but had not been suspected by any editor, that 'I' here, as often, is not the pronoun, but 'Aye'.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

once if necessary to

I might refer at once, if necessary to a hundred well authenticated instances.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Oh I never thought

‘Oh, I never thought of this!—And so they dare to turn my friendship into food for further scandal against her!—That proves the falsehood of their other lies, at all events, if any proof were wanting.—Mind you contradict them, Rose, whenever you can.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

ourselves in numerous thriving

Once on the other side of the mountains, we shall find ourselves in numerous thriving villages.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

opinion is not truer

This is effected in the body by the drugs of the physician, and in the soul by the words of the Sophist; and the new state or opinion is not truer, but only better than the old.
— from Theaetetus by Plato

Olympus is nothing to

Why, Olympus is nothing to it!
— from The Infernal Marriage by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

off in no time

The taxi, although it was a horse-taxi and incapable of moving at more than five miles an hour, reached the Rue Cassette, which was on the other side of the river and quite a long way off, in no time.
— from The Lion's Share by Arnold Bennett

or is not the

Is, or is not, the conclusion warranted that this Pseudo-dream, as I must call it, had its origin by Suggestion from the analogous experience of Mr. Aiken, who had by his own showing narrated it to Mr. Adolphus Groob?" "But Mr. Adolphus Groob never said a single word to me about it.
— from A Likely Story by William De Morgan

over into Normandy to

Robert, having resigned his dukedom, and set out for the Holy Land, William passed over into Normandy to take possession.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses by Anonymous

original is not the

The word in the original is not the word appropriated in that language to right, conformity to rule, but to goodness in its most general sense.
— from An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition by George Sharswood

of iron not the

It struck me that if, instead of using that complicated harp, and vibrating a number of rods tuned to different pitches, and thus creating on the line of wire a resultant effect, we were at once to vibrate a piece of iron, to give to that piece of iron not the vibration of a musical tone, but to give it the resultant vibration of a vowel sound, we could have an undulatory current produced directly, not indirectly, which would correspond to the motion of the air in the production of a sound.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

ours is not the

Marmaduke But his own crime had brought on him this doom, His wickedness prepared it; these expedients Are terrible, yet ours is not the fault.
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 (of 8) by William Wordsworth

on in Neale those

It was by no means wholly physical and muscular, the hardening and maturing that went on in Neale, those first weeks of his last football season.
— from Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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