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or that hideous monster a railway

Much weight will not be given to the fright of the lower animals, I fear, by any thoughtful person who has witnessed the terror of a horse at sight of a flapping shirt on a clothes-line, or that hideous monster a railway engine.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

of the Hellenes met and resolved

But with the dawn the generals and officers of the Hellenes met and resolved to proceed, taking only the necessary number of stout baggage animals, and leaving the weaklings behind.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

or tendency however must always remain

A primordial constitution or tendency, however, must always remain, having structure and involving a definite life; for if we thought to reach some wholly vacant and indeterminate point of origin, we should have reached something wholly impotent and indifferent, a blank pregnant with nothing that we wished to explain or that actual experience presented.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

or two has made a rising

“'Doctor Manette, formerly of Beauvais,' said the other; 'the young physician, originally an expert surgeon, who within the last year or two has made a rising reputation in Paris?' “'Gentlemen,' I returned, 'I am that Doctor Manette of whom you speak so graciously.'
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

out this he made a rush

As he thundered out this he made a rush at Bildad, but with a marvellous oblique, sliding celerity, Bildad for that time eluded him.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

opening they had made and returned

He killed the creature by beating at its heart with a stone club, and when the gulls had preyed on its flesh, as it lay floating on the surface, until he could see daylight, he clambered through the opening they had made and returned to his lodge.
— from Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Complete by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

or three hours more a rest

For two or three hours more (a rest being taken at a small restaurant) the officers wandered about the streets of Valetta.
— from The North Pacific: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Willis Boyd Allen

of the hall made a rush

Then several men, bareheaded and evidently attendants of the hall, made a rush for him.
— from The U. P. Trail by Zane Grey

or Twan Habīb Mūra are robbed

If datus with official titles or Twan Habīb Mūra are robbed, forty pesos shall go to the person robbed and thirty pesos shall go to the treasury.
— from Studies in Moro History, Law, and Religion by Najeeb M. (Najeeb Mitry) Saleeby

of the head master and Ramsay

He writes of Durham school that it had fallen off terribly, from the increasing infirmities of the head master, and Ramsay was anxious to leave it, when that move came naturally by the death of his father [2] .
— from Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

of the human mind as reflected

Some details of this restored picture of the world of gods and men in early times, nay, in the very spring of time, may have to be altered, but the picture, the eidyllion remained, and nothing could curb the adventurous spirit and keep it from pushing forward and trying to do what seemed to others almost impossible, namely, to watch the growth of the human mind as reflected in the petrifactions of language.
— from My Autobiography: A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

of the highest morality and regulations

But the modern distinction between moral and ceremonial law had no existence in Paul’s mind, any [215] more than it has in the Old Testament, where precepts of the highest morality and regulations of the merest ceremonial are interstratified in a way most surprising to us moderns.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren

of the herder made a red

As far up the mountain-side as the glacier our tired horses ranged for grass, and the tiny fire of the herder made a red glow that disappeared as the night mist closed down.
— from Through Glacier Park: Seeing America First with Howard Eaton by Mary Roberts Rinehart

of Texas have made a report

The commissioners appointed pursuant to the authority of Congress to examine into the nature and extent of the forays by trespassers from that country upon the herds of Texas have made a report, which will be submitted for your consideration.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

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