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opinion upon the subject in the

I shall be happy to give you an opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

or until they sink into the

If other ideas should prevail, things must remain in their present confusion, until they are hurried into all the rage of civil violence, or until they sink into the dead repose of despotism.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

of us think stands in the

The reader can see the picture in any drawing-room; it can be easily recognized: the Virgin (the only young and really beautiful Virgin that was ever painted by one of the old masters, some of us think,) stands in the crescent of the new moon, with a multitude of cherubs hovering about her, and more coming; her hands are crossed upon her breast, and upon her uplifted countenance falls a glory out of the heavens.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

opened under the steps into the

There was a door which opened under the steps into the kitchen, protected by an iron grating, intended as a safeguard against burglars.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

operate upon the States in their

One thing, at all events, must be evident, that a government like the one proposed would bid much fairer to avoid the necessity of using force, than that species of league contend for by most of its opponents; the authority of which should only operate upon the States in their political or collective capacities.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

only under this supposition is the

For, as in the former case the cognition (conclusio) is given only as conditioned, reason can attain to this cognition only under the presupposition that all the members of the series on the side of the conditions are given (totality in the series of premisses), because only under this supposition is the judgement we may be considering possible a priori; while on the side of the conditioned or the inferences, only an incomplete and becoming, and not a presupposed or given series, consequently only a potential progression, is cogitated.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

on us the senselessness in the

Mercy on us, the senselessness in the world!”
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

off until thou sayest Into the

and the cudgel will leap forth among the people, and play such a dance on their backs that they will not be able to stir or move for a week, and it will not leave off until thou sayest, 'Into the sack, Cudgel!'"
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

ourselves until the snows in the

He then recommended us to leave Norway and go to Copenhagen, or some other capital in the south, and enjoy ourselves until the snows in the interior had melted, and return to Christiansand about the end of the first week in June, when he guaranteed we should have salmon-fishing in all its phases to our heart's content.
— from A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by William A. Ross

of us to stay in the

"Would you like one of us to stay in the house or about the place for the remainder of the night?" "Oh, no—thank you.
— from The Heatherford Fortune a sequel to the Magic Cameo by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.

out upon the silence in the

The cry of command pealed out upon the silence in the voice that the Army of Africa loved as the voice of their Little One.
— from Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida

offers up the soul is that

He himself appears simply as He who offers up; the soul is that which is offered up.-- אשם is, in Numb. v. 5, called that of which some one has unjustly robbed another, and which he is bound to repay to him.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

of Upmeads to supper in the

But as they spake thus came a lay-brother and bent the knee before King Peter and bade him and the Dame of Upmeads to supper in the name of the Prior, and the Captain and the Lady therewith; for indeed the rumour of the coming of an host for the helping of the countryside had gotten into that House, and the Prior and the brethern sorely desired to look upon the Captain, not knowing him for Ralph of Upmeads.
— from The Well at the World's End: A Tale by William Morris

observations upon this subject in the

The following are Sir John Lubbock's observations upon this subject in the case of bees and wasps:— Every one has heard of a 'bee-line.'
— from Animal Intelligence The International Scientific Series, Vol. XLIV. by George John Romanes

olive upon the star is the

It was under President Gardner’s direction that the Liberian Order of African Redemption was established; the decoration of the order consists of a star with rays pendent from a wreath of olive; upon the star is the seal of the Republic with the motto, THE [94] LOVE OF LIBERTY BROUGHT US HERE.
— from Liberia: Description, History, Problems by Frederick Starr

of units the slaveholders insisted that

But whether counted as units or as fractions of units, the slaveholders insisted that representation should be according to that enumeration.
— from James Madison by Sydney Howard Gay

or until they sink into the

If other ideas should prevail, things must remain in their present confusion, until they are hurried into all the rage of civil violence; or until they sink into the dead repose of despotism.
— from Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches by Edmund Burke

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