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or rein savage

The five unsatiated Senses will remain, the sixth insatiable Sense ( of vanity ); the whole daemonic nature of man will remain,—hurled forth to rage blindly without rule or rein; savage itself, yet with all the tools and weapons of civilisation; a spectacle new in History.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

objectives refer simply

There are two very different kinds: some, that are [Pg 330] called territorial or geographical objectives , refer simply to an enemy's line of defense which it is desired to get possession of, or a fortress or intrenched camp to be captured; the others, on the contrary, consist entirely in the destruction or disorganization of the enemy's forces, without giving attention to geographical points of any kind .
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

On respectait soigneusement

On respectait soigneusement toutes ses habitudes, toutes ses manies.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

our resolutions should

Noël Parfait proposed that our decrees and our resolutions should be drawn up, not with the formula: "The National Assembly decrees," etc.; but with the formula: "The Representatives of the People remaining at liberty decree," etc.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

on reaching school

The fine vista of the College Avenue, opposite to which we have now arrived, always recalls to our recollection a certain bright spring morning, when on reaching school a whole holiday was unexpectedly announced; and when, as a mode of filling up a portion of [318] the unlooked-for vacant time, it was agreed between two or three young lads to pay a visit to the place on Lot Street where, as the report had spread amongst us, they were beginning to make visible preparations for the commencement of the University of King's College.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

of remarkable splendor

It had not many private houses, but these were of remarkable splendor.
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord

of reformation she

As the object of the Church of England, in separating from Rome, was the reformation , not the destruction of her former faith, by the very act of reformation she found herself opposed to two bodies; namely, that from which she separated, and the ultra-reformers or Puritans, who clamoured for a radical reformation.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Ostfold Rogaland Sogn

Kingdom of Norway conventional short form: Norway local long form: Kongeriket Norge local short form: Norge Data code: NO Government type: constitutional monarchy Capital: Oslo Administrative divisions: 19 provinces (fylker, singular - fylke); Akershus, Aust-Agder, Buskerud, Finnmark, Hedmark, Hordaland, More og Romsdal, Nordland, Nord-Trondelag, Oppland, Oslo, Ostfold, Rogaland, Sogn og Fjordane, Sor-Trondelag, Telemark, Troms, Vest-Agder, Vestfold Dependent areas: Bouvet Island, Jan Mayen, Svalbard Independence: 7 June 1905 Norway declared the union with Sweden dissolved; 26 October 1905 Sweden agreed to the repeal of the union National holiday:
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

of rough shed

There was the orderly disorder of a construction terminal: tracks littered with cars of material, a range of rough shed shelters for the stone-cutters, a dotting of sleeping-huts and adobes on a little mesa above, and a huge, weathered mess-tent, lighted within, and glowing orange-hued in the twilight.
— from The King of Arcadia by Francis Lynde

of regular soldiers

7 Of another Badhak chief, Meherbān, it is stated 8 that he hired a discharged sepoy to instruct his followers in the European system of drill, that they might travel with him in the disguise of regular soldiers, well armed and accoutred.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

of Reid Stewart

He lectured on mental and moral philosophy, and employed as text-books the works of Reid, Stewart, and Brown having himself graduated in a Scotch university.
— from Recollections of a Long Life by John Stoughton

one rarely sees

We sighted her atoll at dawn, such a dawn as one rarely sees outside the tropics.
— from Faery Lands of the South Seas by James Norman Hall

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