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only some particular friend

I have already computed the charge of nursing a beggar's child (in which list I reckon all cottagers, labourers, and four-fifths of the farmers) to be about two shillings per annum, rags included; and I believe no gentleman would repine to give ten shillings for the carcass of a good fat child, which, as I have said, will make four dishes of excellent nutritive meat, when he hath only some particular friend, or his own family to dine with him.
— from A Modest Proposal For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick by Jonathan Swift

of some particularly foul

And Angela, having stared haughtily for a moment like a princess of the old régime confronted by some notable example of gaucherie on the part of some particularly foul member of the underworld, accompanied me across the threshold.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

of such periodical fountains

In Varenius's Geography, i, 17, the reader will find several instances of such periodical fountains and rivers, though none of their periods were that of a just week as of old this appears to have been.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

of such penalties for

The one, which we may call Conservative Justice, is realised (1) in the observance of Law and Contracts and definite understandings, and in the enforcement of such penalties for the violation of these as have been legally determined and announced; and (2) in the fulfilment of natural and normal expectations.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

of some public function

There is no difficulty in showing that the ideally best form of government is that in which the sovereignty, or supreme controlling power in the last resort, is vested in the entire aggregate of the community, every citizen not only having a voice in the exercise of that ultimate sovereignty, but being, at least occasionally, called on to take an actual part in the government by the personal discharge of some public function, local or general.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

or somebody paying for

how can I?" said Pangloss, "I have not a farthing, my friend, and all over the globe there is no letting of blood or taking a glister, without paying, or somebody paying for you."
— from Candide by Voltaire

of simple pleasures Fate

But in the midst of those halcyon days of simple pleasures, Fate began to show herself unkind.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

out secret paths for

True affection when excluded from the right road seeks out secret paths for itself.
— from The Day of Wrath by Mór Jókai

of spiritual pride from

He then mentions his dread of spiritual pride, from whence he earnestly prays that God may deliver and preserve him.
— from The Life of Col. James Gardiner Who Was Slain at the Battle of Prestonpans, September 21, 1745 by Philip Doddridge

one set placed forward

In many machines, ascent and tilting are separately controlled by using two sets of transverse planes, one set placed forward, and the other set aft, of the main planes.
— from Flying Machines Today by William D. (William Duane) Ennis

of staging per foot

lagging per foot of column length, and, neglecting the special top frame, about 16 ft. B. M. of "staging" per foot to support the lagging.
— from Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

of slave property for

The exact date of the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts is a disputed point, but it is generally conceded to have legally taken place at the time of the adoption of the State Constitution in 1780, although advertisements of slave property for sale appear in the newspapers of a later date.
— from Harper's Young People, August 31, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

one simple philosophic form

He would pervade words spoken, as by prophets or preachers: He would include words written, as in the Bible: He would influence crowds with spirit-stirring sentiments: He would embody the theory of all things in one simple, philosophic form.
— from The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper by Martin Farquhar Tupper

often sound policy for

Yet even in the stress of work it is often sound policy for a man to halt for a moment and collect his thoughts.
— from The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction by John Buchan

operation says Professor Flint

"This is an operation," says Professor Flint, referring to the division of this nerve, "that we have frequently performed with success."
— from Vivisection by Albert Leffingwell

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