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or less energetic characters

The physical and moral condition of the troops and the more or less energetic characters of the commanders will, of course, be elements in the determination of such movements.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

of latitude extreme cold

degrees of latitude extreme cold, as those northern countries usually are, having one perpetual hard frost all winter long; and in 52.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

of like elevated character

He, in common with others of like elevated character, looked upon the kidnapper with abhorrence.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

Of late eternal Condor

Of late, eternal Condor years So shake the very Heaven on high With tumult as they thunder by, I have no time for idle cares Through gazing on the unquiet sky.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

one language exactly covers

For, as every translator knows, no single word in one language exactly covers any single word in another; and yet if Kant’s distinctions are to be preserved it is necessary to select with more or less arbitrariness English equivalents for German technical terms, and retain them all through.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

other less equivocal causes

It is true that the proportions laid down as causes of beauty in the human body, are frequently found in beautiful ones, because they are generally found in Page 205 all mankind; but if it can be shown too that they are found without beauty, and that beauty frequently exists without them, and that this beauty, where it exists, always can be assigned to other less equivocal causes, it will naturally lead us to conclude that proportion and beauty are not ideas of the same nature.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

of London emigration carried

If, like the Great Plague, or Fire of London, emigration carried off the diseased, or swept away foul and unhealthy tenements, it might possibly be regarded with more complacency.
— from The Alien Invasion by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins

of learned ecclesiastical controversy

While occupied thus in delivering simple and practical sermons to his congregation in the town, he continued to publish written works of the same character and purport, in addition to his labours in the field of learned ecclesiastical controversy, thus showing the love with which he worked for them at large in this matter.
— from Life of Luther by Julius Köstlin

our labors extended clear

Thus aided, our labors extended clear into November.
— from Ten Acres Enough A practical experience, showing how a very small farm may be made to keep a very large family by Edmund Morris

ovata Labium exterius crassum

Apertura ovata, Labium exterius crassum, intus dentatum.
— from Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4 Zoology by Linnean Society of London

Our Little Eskimo Cousin

Our Little Eskimo Cousin Our Little French Cousin Our Little German Cousin
— from Our Little Austrian Cousin by Florence Emma Voigt Mendel

of Los Evangelistas collective

Wm., lxv , lxvii Eustis, Maj., lxxx , lxxxi , lxxxviii , lxxxix Evangelists, The, is trans. of Los Evangelistas, collective name given by Kino in 1699 to four branches of the Gila r., now the Salado or Salt, the Verde, Santa Cruz, and San Pedro Ewing's cr., 369 , 370 Ewing, Wm., 15 , 222 , 223 , 291 , 292 examination of papers, 610 exœcias, 741 explosions, 109 , and see magazines Exposition Grounds, Toronto, lxxvi , lxxviii Eyeish, Eyish, 711 F Fabas, Fabbas r., 9 Fabius isl., 10 , 11 Fabius r., 9 , 10 Fabius tp., Mo., 11 Fair American, a ship, lxxxiii Fairbanks, a Mr., 324 Fairfield, Mo., 380 Fairport, Ia., 23 Fall cr., Pike co., Ill., 6 Fall Inds., 278 Falling Leaf, a chf., 43 Falling Rock cr., 2 Fall r., br. of Verdigris r., 555 Falls cr., or Bassett's cr., 94 Falls, see names of falls, besides the following: 884 Falls of Pakagama, 147 Falls of St. Anthony, 35 , 91 , 195 , 196 , 198 , 227 , 231 , 232 , 234 , 235 , 244 , 310 , 311 , 321 , 348 , 356 , 844 , and see the elaborate illustrated article in Final Rep. Geol.
— from The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 3 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7. by Zebulon Montgomery Pike

of legislators enjoying certain

Whether one considers such stability to be a merit or the reverse depends upon whether one adopts Lord Palmerston's and Lord Salisbury's views of the functions of a Senate, or regards it merely as a useful and select body of legislators enjoying certain limited powers of criticism and delay.
— from The Mother of Parliaments by Harry Graham

of love each couple

They are not, properly speaking, nests built for the purpose of rearing young; for at the epoch of love each couple separates and constructs a special retreat in the neighbourhood of the bower.
— from The Industries of Animals by Frédéric Houssay

of land ever came

As was the case with many others of the early colonists, not a rood of land ever came into the possession of their descendants.
— from The Golden South: Memories of Australian Home Life from 1843 to 1888 by Kathleen Lambert

our lives eh Charmian

What a change in our lives, eh, Charmian, if we bring off a big success!
— from The Way of Ambition by Robert Hichens

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