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of season was a lineal descendant of

Pater Abraham a Sancta Clara , if we regard only his quaintness, his queerness, his bad puns, and his jokes, lugged in, like Sancho's proverbs, in season and out of season, was a lineal descendant of those worthy travelling friars, whom Schiller has immortalized by the Capuchin's Sermon, in the introduction to Wallenstein.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 3, September 1837 by Various

of stamens while a lower degree of

Knight and other vegetable physiologists have been of opinion that a high temperature favours the production of stamens, while a lower degree of heat is considered more favorable to the production of pistils, and in this way the occurrence of "blind" strawberries has been accounted for.
— from Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden) Masters

of Scirocco went and lay down on

Pasqualino's myrtle wreath fell down during lunch (he told us that it had done the same thing a good deal all morning), and he, exhausted by his early rising to pick it, and the increasing tension of Scirocco, went and lay down on the bench by the cistern in the garden as soon as his ministrations were over, and after the fashion of Italians took off his coat and put it over his head, which seemed odd on this broiling and airless day.
— from Up and Down by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

out some way and laid down our

First, however, we pulled out some way, and laid down our fish-pots at a spot where Ali seemed to think it was possible we might capture one of the much-wished-for nautili.
— from In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston

of saying with a languishing droop of

Miss Chubb (who delighted to foster any amatory sentiments which she might observe in the young persons around her, and was fond of saying, with a languishing droop of her plump, rubicund, good-humoured countenance, that she would not for the world see other young hearts blighted by early disappointment, as hers had been) had dropped several hints to that effect sufficiently broad to be understood even by the bashful Rhoda.
— from A Charming Fellow, Volume II by Frances Eleanor Trollope

opposed sentiments with a like degree of

There are hard, ill-natured beings, goaded by distress or disease into active malignity, that yet entertain diametrically opposed sentiments with a like degree of vehemence.
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac

of stimulants which a less delicate organization

"I have been told, that when his sorrows and pecuniary embarrassments had driven him to the use of stimulants, which a less delicate organization might have borne without injury, he was in the habit of speaking disrespectfully of the ladies of his acquaintance.
— from International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various

only see what a large drop of

“And look at this,” cried Nanny, full of glee, taking up an acorn cup; “only see what a large drop of dew inside—it must be a bath for the tiny insects.”
— from Mou-Setsé: A Negro Hero; The Orphans' Pilgimage: A Story of Trust in God by L. T. Meade

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