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Phil I must leave on the train
"Phil, I must leave on the train for Kansas City this evening," he said as we rose to go back to town.
— from The Price of the Prairie: A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter

pack it mattered little on that Tuesday
To Andre-Louis, since La Tour was not one of that waiting pack, it mattered little on that Tuesday morning who should be the next.
— from Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution by Rafael Sabatini

present in malt liquors owing to their
It is frequently present in malt liquors, owing to their common adulteration with Cocculus indicus .
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

palace is much less ornate than the
The style of the whole palace is much less ornate than the other zanana buildings, but it is always dignified and in excellent taste.
— from A Handbook to Agra and the Taj, Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood by E. B. (Ernest Binfield) Havell

physical in man leads onward to the
And further, the sense of the supernatural world, of the struggle between the spiritual and the physical in man, leads onward to the conception of retribution and punishment, “not” (as Hegel puts it) “as something arbitrary, but as the other half of sin .”
— from Dante Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite movement by Esther (of Hampstead) Wood


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