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preserves fear the

Fear not these ferocious beasts; why should he whom Ormuzd preserves fear the enmity of the whole world?’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

possessed freedom to

] From this fact, as well as from similar events, 52 it is certain that the Lombards possessed freedom to elect their sovereign, and sense to decline the frequent use of that dangerous privilege.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

protection for the

He went on shore under a protection for the day from the judge; but, notwithstanding this, the marshal was called upon to take that opportunity of arresting him, and the merchants promised to indemnify him for so doing.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

professed for the

It will readily be perceived that the respect here professed for the rights of the majority must naturally increase or diminish according to the state of parties.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

population from the

With the progressive rapidity, ease, and security of transportation, and the increase in communication, there follows an increasing detachment of the population from the soil and a concurrent concentration in great cities.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

phrase from the

Here then a league was struck (to borrow a phrase from the lady) between the contending parties; and now the parson arriving, and the horses being ready, the squire departed, having promised his sister to follow her advice, and she prepared to follow him the next day.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

pounds for the

And we had passed shoals of their women climbing the forty miles of steep road from the valley to their mountain homes, with tall baskets on their backs hitched to their foreheads by a band, and containing a freightage weighing—I will not say how many hundreds of pounds, for the sum is unbelievable.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

partly from the

If, therefore, my dear friend, you have generosity enough to pardon the presumptuous attempt, to frame for myself a minstrel coronet, partly out of the pearls of pure antiquity, and partly from the Bristol stones and paste, with which I have endeavoured to imitate them, I am convinced your opinion of the difficulty of the task will reconcile you to the imperfect manner of its execution.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

prayers for the

His fervent prayers for the redemption of the people of Israel it was that had such a striking effect on my mind.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

passion for truth

Principle is a passion for truth.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

protruded from the

A child will very commonly breathe as soon as its mouth is born, or protruded from the mother, and in that case may lose its life before its body be born; especially when there happens to be a considerable interval of time between what we may call the birth of the child's head, and the protrusion of its body.
— from On the uncertainty of the signs of murder in the case of bastard children by William Hunter

portrayed from the

The Hispaniola , in that unbroken mirror, was exactly portrayed from the truck to the waterline, the Jolly Roger hanging from her peak.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

polite for the

Perhaps even too suavely polite for the Anglo-Saxon temperament.
— from The Scarecrow, and Other Stories by G. Ranger (Gwendolyn Ranger) Wormser

prayed for the

Take, for example, “The welcome, the thrice prayed for, the most fair, The best-beloved Night!”
— from Letters on Literature by Andrew Lang

pipe from the

By the light of a bad-smelling tin lamp nailed against the Samson-post, and sitting on a locker beside one of the swinging anchor chains that came down through the hawse pipe from the deck above into the fore-peak under the man's feet, one of the sailors fell to telling one of his many adventures on the lakes.
— from Geoffrey Hampstead: A Novel by Stinson Jarvis

pen from the

Nanteuil took a pen from the desk, and held it out, dipped in ink, to the doctor.
— from A Mummer's Tale by Anatole France

petticoats for these

Wagstaff's notes of his words read as follows: "'My name is Julius Jenkins, and I have a cousin named Betsey Brown; I love my cousin Betsey; have always loved my cousin Betsey, from the time when as children we tore in loving partnership our [Pg 173] mutual pantalets and petticoats (for these legs once wore pantalets, and their symmetry was hidden from admiration by petticoats), looking for blackberries in a cedar-swamp; from the time we sucked eggs together in the barn-yard and 'teetered' in happy sport upon the same board; from the time we built playhouses in the garden and made puppy-love behind the currant bushes; from those happy days of rural felicity until the present time, my cousin
— from The History and Records of the Elephant Club by Edward F. (Edward Fitch) Underhill

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