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other resources collected should

I reserved to myself the liberty of laying it aside, or of finishing it at my ease, according as my other resources collected should render this necessary or superfluous.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

of restless cares So

Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honour for an inward toil; And for unfelt imaginations They often feel a world of restless cares, So that between their tides and low name There's nothing differs but the outward fame.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

or regimental commander sign

The officers to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged, and each company or regimental commander sign a like parole for the men of their commands.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

of red Cherries somewhat

Take of the juice of red Cherries somewhat sowerish, as much as you will, and with half their weight in sugar boil them like the former.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

or resource cried Scrooge

'Have they no refuge or resource?' cried Scrooge.
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

of Rao Chand Singh

The plate represents Rajmahall, on the Banas, now in the fief of Rao Chand Singh, one of the Jaipur nobles, whose castle of Duni is in the distance.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

or repairing coaches sawing

for hooping or washing any pipes or barrels in any lane or open passage or repairing coaches, sawing wood, or chiseling stones in the streets.
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly

or real children should

"Little boys, whether they are squirrels, rabbits or real children, should try to be jolly and happy, and not peevish.
— from Uncle Wiggily in the Woods by Howard Roger Garis

on Roman coins See

[13] Since a door ( janua ) had two sides, Janus, the door god, was represented with the curious double face which appears on Roman coins (See the plate facing page 134)
— from Early European History by Hutton Webster

of railroad carried settlers

Every mile of railroad carried settlers, opened farms and increased the national resources and wealth.
— from My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew

of Rochester Clara Sayre

I thank Edna M. Stantial for permission to examine and quote from the Blackwell Papers; Anna Dann Mason for permission to read her reminiscences and the many letters written to her by Susan B. Anthony; Ellen Garrison for permission to quote from letters of Lucretia Mott and Martha C. Wright; Eleanor W. Thompson for copies of Susan B. Anthony's letters to Amelia Bloomer; Henry R. Selden II whose grandfather was Susan B. Anthony's lawyer during her trial for voting; Judge John Van Voorhis whose grandfather was associated with Judge Selden in Miss Anthony's defense; William B. Brown for information about the early history of Adams, Massachusetts, the Susan B. Anthony birthplace, and the Friends Meeting House in Adams; Dr. James Harvey Young for information about Anna E. Dickinson; Margaret Lutz Fogg for help in connection with the trial of Susan B. Anthony; Dr. Blake McKelvey, City Historian of Rochester; Clara Sayre Selden and Wheeler Chapin Case of the Rochester Historical Society; the grand-nieces of Susan B. Anthony, Marion and Florence Mosher; Matilda Joslyn Gage II; Florence L. C. Kitchelt; and Rose Arnold Powell.
— from Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian by Alma Lutz

of respiration coming suddenly

It seems to be the point at which the voluntary nerves of respiration are about to deliver their office over to the involuntary nerves; but [Pg 248] the pause in the respiration has caused a momentary deficiency of breath, and the involuntary nerves of respiration, coming suddenly to the aid of the lungs, cause a spasmodic action of the parts involved, and a yawn , attended by a deep inspiration to compensate for the cessation of breathing , are the result.
— from The Reason Why A Careful Collection of Many Hundreds of Reasons for Things Which, Though Generally Believed, Are Imperfectly Understood by Robert Kemp Philp

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