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of Naples and the emperors

Urban the Fifth resided three years in the Vatican with safety and honor: his sanctity was protected by a guard of two thousand horse; and the king of Cyprus, the queen of Naples, and the emperors of the East and West, devoutly saluted their common father in the chair of St. Peter.
— 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

over nature and the empire

646 412 Sphinx has no more than two kinds of riddles, one relating to the nature of things, the other to the nature of man; and correspondent to these, the prizes of the solution are two kinds of empire,—the empire over nature, and the empire over man.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

one night at the end

And so one night at the end of November, one snowy night, after she had been in bed the whole day, she told me to send for the cure.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

of Nature and the efficacy

CHAPTER LV Of the corruption of Nature and the efficacy of Divine Grace O Lord my God, who hast created me after thine own image and similitude, grant me this grace, which Thou hast shown to be so great and so necessary for salvation, that I may conquer my wicked nature, which draweth me to sin and to perdition.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

or nowhere as the exigency

If he escapes this suspicion and the risk of trampling upon, or being himself run down by the bewildering swarms of youngsters that are everywhere or nowhere as the exigency and their quick scent of danger direct, he will see no reason for dissenting from that observation.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

of natural appearances the essence

Practically, however, you all recognize the difference: you understand, for example, the disdain of the Methodist convert for the mere sky-blue healthy-minded moralist; and you likewise enter into the aversion of the latter to what seems to him the diseased subjectivism of the Methodist, dying to live, as he calls it, and making of paradox and the inversion of natural appearances the essence of God's truth.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

of navigation and the end

The ancients considered the Pillars of Hercules the head of navigation and the end of the world.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

of nature and though each

What built the houses was really labour, skill, enterprise, working up the free gifts of nature; and though each of the workers might have his reward weighed out to him in coins, the cost of all buildings and works in Garden City must be mainly determined by the skill and energy with which its labours are directed.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

of nourishment all the elements

In the system of nourishment all the elements which strengthen the essence of the constituent yin and yang principles must be found by means of medicine, chemistry, gymnastic exercises, etc.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

of NATO and the EU

It has prospered in the past half century as a modern, technologically advanced European state and member of NATO and the EU.
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

or notched at the end

Petals entire or notched at the end GERANIACEAE , p. 64. 85b.
— from The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Henry A. (Henry Allan) Gleason

of nature as they expand

The women who meet him in the forest, Eva and the little goat-girl, seem to him only a part of nature as they expand unconsciously to love like the flower in the sun, and he takes what they give him.
— from Knut Hamsun by Hanna Astrup Larsen

of neglect and the eager

The dread which a writer feels of the public censure; the still greater dread of neglect; and the eager wish for support and protection, which is impressed by the consciousness of imbecility; are unknown to those who have never adventured into the world; and I am afraid, my lord, equally unknown to those who have always found the world ready to applaud them.
— from The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella, v. 1-2 by Charlotte Lennox

of NATO and the European

Italy was a charter member of NATO and the European Economic Community (EEC).
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

of nickel at the end

Thus imagine a cylinder of nickel at the end of a suspension rod, so mounted that it can swing like a pendulum.
— from The Standard Electrical Dictionary A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice of Electrical Engineering by T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor) Sloane

opening not at the ends

These arrows are kept in a quiver of elk or young bear skin, opening not at the ends, as the common quivers, but at the sides; which, for those who hunt in canoes, is much more convenient.
— from History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. II To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. by William Clark

of Napoleon and the ex

His home in later years, a four-story brick house, was somewhat handsomely furnished, with ebony chairs and seats of crimson plush from France, a present from his brother Étienne; a tall writing-cabinet, containing an organ given him by Joseph Bonaparte, the brother of Napoleon, and the ex-king of Spain and Naples, who usually dined with Mr. Girard on Sunday; a Turkey carpet, and marble statuary purchased in Leghorn by his brother Jean.
— from Famous Givers and Their Gifts by Sarah Knowles Bolton

of none answered the earl

“I know of none,” answered the earl, who having doffed his armour, and dismissed his squires, leaned thoughtfully against the wall, dressed for the banquet, with the exception of the short surcoat, which lay glittering on the tabouret.
— from The Last of the Barons — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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