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project is knocked in the

Yet should he reappear, the whole project is knocked in the head.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

public is kept in the

A system which is so built that the public is kept in the dark is entitled to the attention of a Pinkerton.
— from The Heart-Cry of Jesus by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees

people is known in the

The effects of such grouping on modern people is known in the tenement districts of large cities, where families live in single rooms; and these effects are of a distinctly degrading nature.
— from Women and Economics A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

propagates its kind in the

This little creature when it springs up from such small beginnings by the power of God, grows up to be one of the lords of the world, to have a dominion over the creatures, and propagates its kind in the same manner: all this is unaccountable without having recourse to the power of God in the government of the creatures.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

payment is kept in the

The day for the resumption of specie payment is kept in the distant future.
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

presentiment I know is that

She writes:— "One of the most remarkable cases of presentiment I know, is that which occurred not very long since on board one of Her Majesty's ships, when lying off Portsmouth.
— from Fiends, Ghosts, and Sprites Including an Account of the Origin and Nature of Belief in the Supernatural by John Netten Radcliffe

Phillip I know it too

"Ah, Phillip, I know it too well, but I have something to tell you, which is killing me by inches.
— from Marguerite Verne; Or, Scenes from Canadian Life by Rebecca Agatha Armour

please I know it to

“Well, believe it or not as you please; I know it to have been a fact.
— from Betty Vivian: A Story of Haddo Court School by L. T. Meade

produce its kind in the

But their action was akin to that of the thousands of citizens who refrain from voting at primary elections, where the seed is planted which will produce its kind in the fruiting on the day of the final and determining election, and subsequently complain of the incompetency or dishonesty of the incumbents whose election is largely attributable to the neglect of these very citizens, to make it their special care that only good and qualified and worthy men shall be elected at the primaries.
— from The Vigilance Committee of 1856 by James O'Meara

pains is kept in the

Montriveau should overleap one difficulty after another; he should be a plaything for her caprice, just as an insect teased by children is made to jump from one finger to another, and in spite of all its pains is kept in the same place by its mischievous tormentor.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

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