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old place up some day

Keep the dear old place up; some day we may see it, but not for years—it may be never.
— from Fast as the Wind: A Novel by Nat Gould

of profound unutterable sadness drove

The latter started at the touch, and a look of profound, unutterable sadness drove the smile from his face.
— from The Corsair King by Mór Jókai

of political unity seems due

The relative absence of political unity seems due to want of interest in politics.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

of Philadelphia under Sarah Douglass

Another worker of this class was Mary Wormley, once a student in the Colored Female Seminary of Philadelphia under Sarah Douglass.
— from The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War by Carter Godwin Woodson

of physiological units slightly different

That Spencer was not far from the idea of a struggle between hereditary units, we see from the following passage: "In the fertilised germ we have two groups of physiological units, slightly different in their structures.
— from Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson

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