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power and the eagerness not to

Spain was obstinate; and it is significant of Alberoni's achievements in developing her power, and the eagerness, not to say anxiety, of George I., that the offer was made to purchase her consent by ceding Gibraltar.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

parts and there exists nothing that

Every composite substance in the world consists of simple parts; and there exists nothing that is not either itself simple, or composed of simple parts.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

pressing at the end nearest to

I saw one black-bearded fellow had covered me as if I were a round target, and I said to myself as well as I could speak for my lips were like parched peas, 'Morgan Griffiths, twelve shillings a week and an allowance of coal is better than this'; and I'm not ashamed to own that I turned round and made my way through the crush of our men, which was getting less inconveniently pressing at the end nearest to the levelled barrels.
— from Faces and Places by Lucy, Henry W. (Henry William), Sir

pain and the effort not to

she asked, trembling with pain and the effort not to show it.
— from A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner

position about the editors namely that

Somewhat ruefully, he explained to Angela his position about the editors; namely, that the sooner the lot of them came under the eye of a lunacy commission, the better for all concerned.
— from Angela's Business by Henry Sydnor Harrison

projections at the end nearest the

Within this cavity are many slender, spindle-shaped cells which terminate in hair-like projections at the end nearest the pore, but in short fibers at the other end.
— from Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. (Francis Marion) Walters

praise and took exception not to

M. Sarcey alone withheld unstinted praise, and took exception, not to the artiste’s talents but to her use of them, and indulged in criticisms of the play itself.
— from Sarah Bernhardt by Jules Huret

policy applied to enslave not to

But if a rigorous policy, applied to enslave, not to restrain from crimes, has an actual tendency to corrupt the manners, and to extinguish the spirit of nations; if its severities be applied to terminate the agitations of a free people, not to remedy their corruptions; if forms be often applauded as salutary, because they tend merely to silence the voice of mankind, or be condemned as pernicious, because they allow this voice to be heard; we may expect that many of the boasted improvements of civil society, will be mere devices to lay the political spirit at rest, and will chain up the active virtues more than the restless disorders of men.
— from An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition by Adam Ferguson

pride and training enough now to

But it was something she must struggle against, and she had force and pride and training enough now to maintain her usual tranquillity, in spite of a certain inward commotion which seemed to reach her breathing and her pulse by some strange, inexplicable mechanism.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

pull and that each night the

But it must not be forgotten that the men also expected to pull, and that each night the weight would be reduced by thirty or forty pounds.
— from The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition by Charles Turley

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