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of lighters and barges

One large house for stowage of corn craned out of lighters and barges, is there lately built; Sir John Lion, grocer, mayor 1554, by his testament, gave a hundred pounds towards it; but since increased and made larger at the charges of the city, in the year 1565.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

on living as before

From that moment, though he did not distinctly face it, and still went on living as before, Levin had never lost this sense of terror at his lack of knowledge.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

of life and behavior

During the past seventy years the various tribes, races, and nationalities of mankind have been examined in detail by the students of ethnology, and a comparison of the results shows that the fundamental patterns of life and behavior are everywhere the same, whether among the ancient Greeks, the modern Italians, the Asiatic Mongols, the Australian blacks, or the African Hottentots.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

of late and bespoke

Up, and after a while at the office, I abroad in several places, among others to my bookseller’s, and there spoke for several books against New Year’s day, I resolving to lay out about L7 or L8, God having given me some profit extraordinary of late; and bespoke also some plate, spoons, and forks.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

of life and became

A number of them changed their mode of life and became disciples of Lahiri Mahasaya as a result of this miracle.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

of languages augmented by

This task will become comparatively easy, however, and surely interesting and with a foreboding of many delights and surprises if we penetrate the jungle aided by the experience of predecessors, steadfastly relying on the “theory of evolution” as a guide, and armed with the indispensable equipment for gastronomical research, i.e., the practical and technical knowledge of cookery, mastery of languages, augmented by practical experience gathered by observations and travel in many lands, and last but not least, if we are obsessed with the fixed idea that so menial a subject is worth all the bother.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

of Lofar accounted be

Fialar and Frosti, Finn and Ginnar, Heri, Höggstari, Hliôdôlf, Moin: that above shall, while mortals live, the progeny of Lofar, accounted be.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

of London and Bristol

Lord Chatham advocated his motion in a very pathetic speech, and was supported by speeches by the Marquis of Rockingham, Lords Shelburne and Camden, and petitions from merchants and manufacturers throughout the kingdom, and most prominently by those of London and Bristol.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

on label a bright

—Another bottle of the same brand of ketchup; examined in April, 1908; presumably manufactured in 1907; one-twelfth of 1 per cent of sodium benzoate declared on label; a bright red; guaranteed to be from fresh ripe tomatoes and uncolored.
— from Experiments on the Spoilage of Tomato Ketchup by A. W. (Arvill Wayne) Bitting

of liver and bacon

The dinner consisted of pea soup, a spit upon which [38] was impaled alternate morsels of liver and bacon, a dish of little sausages with succulent cabbage, a dish founded on beef or mutton, I forget which, cream cheese, biscuits, oranges, and nuts, and the charge for this, including the wine, of which I drank a large quantity, was two francs.
— from A Spring Walk in Provence by Archibald Marshall

or limit as by

Differentiated rights Or, as also pointed out by Mr. Steuart, he may "impose upon any of these estates any condition or limit," as by limiting the use (28) for special purposes, (29) at a special price, or (30) for a special time, or (31) in a special locality, or (32) to a special person.
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

of Louisiana and by

Spain was already in possession of Louisiana and, by prompt action on her entry into the war in 1780, she had succeeded in getting control of eastern Louisiana and of practically all the Floridas except St. Augustine.
— from The Fathers of the Constitution: A Chronicle of the Establishment of the Union by Max Farrand

of life and by

The French are, beyond all manner of doubt, the most good-humoured people on the surface of the earth; if we understand at least by the term, good-humour those minor courtesies, those considerate kindnesses, those cursory attentions, which, though they cost little to the giver, are not the less valuable to the receiver; which soften the asperities of life, and by their frequent occurrence, and the constant necessity in which we stand of them, have an aggregate, if not an individual importance.
— from Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 by lieutenant-colonel (Ninian) Pinkney

of love and battle

A year of exaltation to high and princely rank—a year of love and battle—and then a return to this cold and heavy occupation!
— from Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various

of little ability but

He was a young man of little ability; but his personal beauty and engaging manners won him many friends.
— from The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers by Steele, Richard, Sir

of logical abstraction but

Apuleius was a Platonist: only, for him, the Ideas of Plato were no creatures of logical abstraction, but in very truth informing souls, in every type and variety of sensible things.
— from Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 by Walter Pater

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