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of our present social life are

The relationships of our present social life are so numerous and so interwoven that a child placed in the most favorable position could not readily share in many of the most important of them.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

out of port so like a

Not that he's any way out of the common when he's on liquor, but it's never no good to have a man boozy out of port, so, like a good chap, lead him off it if he seems taken that way.
— from The Pearl Fishers by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

out of practice so long and

Mr. Crow said if he was going to do his old flying trick it was well that he had one more try at it; then he got in light flying costume and started from a limb, and did pretty well for any one that had been out of practice so long; and he could even rise from the ground by going out on the Race Track and taking a running start.
— from Hollow Tree Nights and Days by Albert Bigelow Paine

or of places selling liquors advertisements

If an ordinary newspaper, published in a small city such as Montreal practically was twenty years ago, be examined, it will be found that nine-tenths of the advertisements, measured by the space occupied, come under one of the following categories: advertisements of liquors and tobacco, of groceries including [Pg 18] liquors and tobacco, or of places selling liquors; advertisements of theatres and other questionable amusements; advertisements of questionable medicines; advertisements of questionable reading matter; advertisements of other quackeries.
— from The Daily Newspaper: The History of Its Production and Distibution by Anonymous

of our possible suspects look as

"I want to see if any of our possible suspects look as though they had been engaging in nocturnal journeys."
— from The Film Mystery by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

of our pages so long as

This letter is couched in the best possible spirit; and though our correspondent takes strong exception to many of our views, we shall always bid him and others welcome to the use of our pages, so long as they can express their differences of opinion from us or from each other with so much freedom from acrimonius feeling.
— from The Curiosities of Dudley and the Black Country, From 1800 to 1860 Also an Account of the Trials and Sufferings of Dud Dudley, with His Mettallum Martis: Etc. by C. F. G. Clark

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