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of St Mary Overy now

Parish churches there have been six, whereof five do remain; viz., St. Mary Magdalen, in the priory of St. Mary Overy, now the same St. Mary Overy is the parish church for the said Mary Magdalen, and for St. Margaret on the hill, and is called St. Saviour.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

of sluggish mind or narrowness

For centuries we did hold torches of civilization in the East when the West slumbered in darkness, and that could never be the sign of sluggish mind or narrowness of vision.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

over so many other nations

73 By the most gentle arts he labored to inspire the fierce multitude with a sense of duty, and to restore at least a faint image of that discipline to which the Romans owed their empire over so many other nations, as warlike and more powerful than themselves.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

over so many other nations

By the most gentle arts he labored to inspire the fierce multitude with a sense of duty, and to restore at least a faint image of that discipline to which the Romans owed their empire over so many other nations, as warlike and more powerful than themselves.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

object selects must of necessity

No one objects to agriculturists speaking of the potent effects of man's selection; and in this case the individual differences given by nature, which man for some object selects, must of necessity first occur.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

on some mercenary old nurse

I figure to myself that the task of attending on your sickbed has devolved on some mercenary old nurse, who could never guess your wishes nor minister to them with the care and affection of your poor cousin.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

own souls must of necessity

But such as observe not well the stirrings of their own souls must of necessity be unhappy. 9.
— 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

of several millions of negro

The emancipation of several millions of negro slaves without compensation, and the transfer to them of political preponderance in the States in which they outnumber the white population, were acts of the North totally opposed to the interests of the South, and which could only have been carried into effect by conquest.—Translator's Note.]]
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

of shipbuilding materials or not

that all restrictions placed on the trading of their vessels with the allied and associated countries, whether by the German government or by private German interests, and whether in return for specific concessions, such as the export of shipbuilding materials or not, are immediately canceled. Thirty-three—No transfers of German merchant shipping of any description to any neutral flag are to take place after signature of the armistice.
— from America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell

only slight myopia or none

If only slight myopia or none at all is present, but the relation between accommodation and convergence is disturbed, the latter can be corrected by means of prisms with the bases inwards—to be sure, only in a slight degree, as prisms of more than 4° are scarcely suited for spectacles, partly on account of their weight and partly [Pg 63] on account of the diffusion of colours.
— from Clinical Investigations on Squint by C. Schweigger

or slow morning or night

Past leaning willows it goes; past graceful elms and fragrant groups of gleaming birch; whether fast or slow, morning or night, it fills all the woodland with its liquid music.
— from See America First by Charles J. Herr

once splendid museum of natural

In a rambling building, forming the back of a hollow square, we come across the mouldy remains of a once splendid museum of natural history, the life work of one Captain Bell of the Old Company.
— from The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron

of so many other New

The history of Attleboro, like that of so many other New England towns, naturally divides itself into two widely different epochs, each interesting to the modern reader.
— from The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886 by Various

of solid masonry or nearly

The great wall of Babylon contained 200,000,000 yards of solid masonry, or nearly twice the cubic contents of the famous wall of China.
— from The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

of slavery must of necessity

Therefore, at this period of our history, with the light of the past, the reality of the present, and the prospect of the future, all so prominent and so palpable, we infer that every person who sets up an unequivocal defence of the institution of slavery, must, of necessity, be either a fool, a knave, or a madman.
— from The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It by Hinton Rowan Helper

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