"orfs" hidden in books

of riding for some

Just as one says that Aesculapius has prescribed a course of riding for some one, or the cold bath, or walking bare-footed; so it may be said that the guiding Mind prescribes for a man, disease, or mutilation, or losses, or the like.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

other rational functions so

To exalt fine art into a truly ideal activity we should have to knit it more closely with other rational functions, so that to beautify things might render them more useful and to represent them most imaginatively might be to see them in their truth.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

of rice flour sheep

Offerings of rice flour, sheep, fowls, toddy, rice, cocoanuts and plantains, are given on Fridays in the month of Kanni (September-October).
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

of Representatives for Speaker

At that time my brother, John Sherman, was a candidate, in the national House of Representatives, for Speaker, against Bocock, of Virginia.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

of rules for shutting

There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it, (‘which certainly was not here before,’ said Alice,) and round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words ‘DRINK ME’ beautifully printed on it in large letters.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Or riddle for some

This posting seems to me a trap, Or riddle for some greenish chap; I therefore leave the whole to you.'
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

on receptacle filaments short

Corolla 15 petals, the inner ones larger, disposed in 3 groups of 5. Stamens 10, fixed on receptacle; filaments short.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

of room for serving

Such apartments have fine entrance courts with imposing front doors of their own; the colonnades of the peristyles are decorated with polished stucco in relief and plain, and with coffered ceilings of woodwork; off the colonnades that face the north they have Cyzicene dining rooms and picture galleries; to the east, libraries; exedrae to the [187] west; and to the south, large square rooms of such generous dimensions that four sets of dining couches can easily be arranged in them, with plenty of room for serving and for the amusements.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

of readers for such

I think there is a new generation of readers for such poetry as Mr. Young's.
— from Ponkapog Papers by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

own remarks fewer some

Had I imagined that their contents would have penetrated beyond your closet or the circle of your intimate acquaintance, several of the narratives would have been extended, while others would have been compressed; the anecdotes would have been more numerous, and my own remarks fewer; some portraits would have been left out, others drawn, and all better finished.
— from Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 1 by Lewis Goldsmith

often returned from seeking

The whole course of the sacred drama passes swiftly before us, with its mournful pauses of defeated hope, as we listen to this echo of the despair with which the baffled Preacher has so often returned from seeking the true Good in this or that province of human life in which it was not to be found.
— from Expositor's Bible: The Book of Ecclesiastes by Samuel Cox

of room for slender

There is plenty of room for slender people like you.’
— from An Ocean Tragedy by William Clark Russell

of responsibility for service

It has increased their interest in missions and deepened their feeling of responsibility for service to the Master.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 01, January, 1900 by Various

Orange River Free State

The Orange River Free State declared war on the same day.
— from A History of England Eleventh Edition by Charles Oman

of races from Southeastern

The educational and physical tests, while not needed for the races from Northwestern Europe, are now advocated as additions to the existing tests on account of the flood of races from Southeastern Europe.
— from Races and Immigrants in America by John R. (John Rogers) Commons

Our road for some

Our road for some time lay through the valley of Kenawha, through which runs the river of that name—a strong, clear stream.
— from Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat

of Records for services

To the Assistant Great Chief of Records for services, $75.00.
— from Redmanship in Kentucky for Fifty Great Suns by Frank L. Smith

Orders received from salesmen

Orders received from salesmen on the house blanks are sometimes used as a posting medium, in which case they are filed in a binder, by date.
— from Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 01 (of 10) by American School of Correspondence

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