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or powder to

kalhay 2 a for grains or powder to be dry and not stuck into lumps.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

on pilgrimage to

He had chosen as his place of earthly abode the holy city of Puri, whither multitudes of pious Hindus, representative of every province of India, come daily on pilgrimage to the famed Temple of Jagannath, "Lord of the World."
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

on purpose to

A good book is the precious life-blood of a 40 master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

of placing the

Undoubtedly the former practice of placing the badge upon the servants' livery is the precursor of the present vogue of placing crests upon livery buttons, and many heraldic writers complain of the impropriety of placing the crest in such a position.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

one Pope that

Then in Pope lane, so called of one Pope that was owner thereof, on the north side of the parish church of St. Anne in the Willows, so called, I know not upon what occasion, but some say of willows growing thereabouts; but now there is no such void place for willows to grow, more than the churchyard, wherein do grow some high ash trees.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

one pitch then

For here, when the pitch shifts, the voice, by change of position, stations itself on one pitch, then on another, and, as it frequently repeats this alternating process, it appears to the senses to become stationary, as happens in singing when we produce a variation of the mode by changing the pitch of the voice.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

of playing the

The only thing which prevented my yielding to it was the fear that I might find the canon to be a fool, incapable of playing the part with dignity.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

our pride Tears

he was our darling and our pride!” Tears, unrestrained, fell from my brother’s eyes; a sense of mortal agony crept over my frame.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

of place to

As my present object is only to show the meaning of the doctrine of identification in its bearing upon the theory of possession, it would be out of place to consider at any length how far that doctrine must be invoked to explain the liability of principals for their agents' torts, or whether a more reasonable rule governs other cases than that applied where the actor has a tolerably defined status as a [230] servant.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

of Paradise the

Thus by the lure of Paradise the Assassins enlisted instruments for their criminal work and established a system of organized murder on a basis of religious fervour.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

of pettifogging that

The boyish dreams I had so long cherished, of distinction in the political arena, were now vanished forever; and the practice of law, for which I had studied, under the Provisional Government was little better than a system of pettifogging, that was as undignified as it was profitless.
— from Sea-gift: A Novel by Edwin W. (Edwin Wiley) Fuller

On passing the

On passing the point, the river opens into a large, spacious reach, which was called ST.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Philip Parker King

of producing them

Thus, many of the English manufactures, being found slight and unserviceable, grew into discredit abroad; thus the art of producing them more perfect may in time be totally lost at home.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

or present the

Every Grand Cyclops shall read, or cause to be read, this Prescript and these Edicts to his Den, at least once in every month; and shall read them to each new member when he is initiated, or present the same to him for his personal perusal.
— from The Ku Klux Klan by Annie Cooper Burton

of preventing the

Destitute of troops sufficient to oppose the united forces of France and Spain, and without allies to furnish him with supplies, don Pedro gave up for the present all idea of bringing forward the claims of the house of Braganza to the crown of Spain, and hastened to form an alliance with Louis the XIVth and Philip the Vth, as the properest means of preventing the kings of Spain from renewing their pretensions to that of Portugal.
— from The History of the Revolutions of Portugal by abbé de Vertot

only perceive the

They made of it, therefore, a Boundless Circle, a Sphere, of which human intellect, with the utmost stretch, could only perceive the vault.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

of power than

For a similar reason a people who at home are accustomed to a climate of wide and sudden changes, like that of the eastern United States, supports others with less loss of power than the average.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

one pair to

It marks every stage of the progress of family life, from one pair to a community and to an empire, in its civil and religious relations.
— from The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull

own person the

The idea of dictatorship is drawn from Roman institutions; and there, when it was created, the person who was invested with this tremendous authority, concentrated in his own person the whole power of the state.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

other person to

Beyond these, whose fond fidelity knew no bounds, there was hardly need of any other person to take charge of the little earl, except a tutor, and that office Mr. Menteith entreated Mr. Cardross to accept.
— from A Noble Life by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

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