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— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

play good examples
He needs sunshine, childish play, good examples all about him, and at least a little love.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

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— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

purple garments Egypt
At this city, merchant strangers of all nations had their keys and wharfs; the Arabians sent gold; the Sabians spice and frankincense; the Scythian armour, Babylon oil, Indian purple garments, Egypt precious stones, Norway and Russia ambergreece and sables, and the Frenchmen wine.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

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— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

plough goeth every
The usurer is the greatest Sabbath-breaker, because his plough goeth every Sunday.
— 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.

Pasin gar eu
[Greek: Pasin gar eu phronousi symmachei tychê]—Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.
— 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.

pilgrimages goeth ever
He that on pilgrimages goeth ever, / Becometh holy late or never.
— 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.

plaintive ghost Even
This night my friend, so late in battle lost, Stood at my side, a pensive, plaintive ghost: Even now familiar, as in life, he came; Alas!
— from The Iliad by Homer

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— from Bacon and Shakspere by William Henry Burr

perpendicular grooves each
Southwards green trees, far down the street, stand, as it seems, almost at the foot of the chiselled tower of Parliament—chiselled in straight lines and perpendicular grooves, each of which casts a shadow into itself.
— from The Life of the Fields by Richard Jefferies

padderollers got em
"I heard my mother and father say they would go 15 or 20 miles to a dance, walkin', and get back before daylight, before the 'padderollers' got 'em.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

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— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper

partheniata Gn E
( Dasyuris partheniata , Gn., E. M. M. v. 93; Meyr., Trans.
— from New Zealand Moths and Butterflies (Macro-Lepidoptera) by G. V. (George Vernon) Hudson

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— from An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman

prince greatly esteemed
Anna met with the same fate; he was a prince greatly esteemed for his good qualities; he married Heriswitha, sister of St. Hilda, the foundress of Whitby Abbey, and had a numerous family, among whom may be named Sexburga, who was married to Ercombert, king of Kent; Withburga, who founded a nunnery at Dereham; and Æthelryth, or, as she is more commonly called, Etheldreda, the renowned foundress of the monastery at Ely, who was born about the year 630, at Exning, in Suffolk, a short distance from Newmarket.
— from Ely Cathedral by Anonymous

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