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painted upon rocks these

Sometimes it is painted upon rocks; these paintings are called churinga ilkinia , sacred drawings.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

pack up return to

Satisfied that I would not be permitted to return to St. Louis, I instructed Mrs. Sherman to pack up, return to Lancaster, and trust to the fate of war.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

prevent utter ruin than

After the earthquake had destroyed three-fourths of Lisbon, the sages of that country could think of no means more effectual to prevent utter ruin than to give the people a beautiful auto-da-fé
— from Candide by Voltaire

prolonged use rather tends

It has no action in any way resembling digitalis; by increasing the irritability of the cardiac muscle, its prolonged use rather tends to fatigue than to rest the heart.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

paddy unhusked rice twenty

The songsters are remunerated with three paras of paddy (unhusked rice), twenty-eight cocoanuts , thirteen annas and four pies, and two pieces of cloth.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

places upon response to

The problem, as far as science is concerned, is to discover what limitations original nature places upon response to social copies, and the ways in which the inborn potentialities find expression or repression in differing types of social environment.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

public use required the

The copies as well as the versions of Scripture, were already so multiplied in the empire, that the most severe inquisition could no longer be attended with any fatal consequences; and even the sacrifice of those volumes, which, in every congregation, were preserved for public use, required the consent of some treacherous and unworthy Christians.
— 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

perhaps unmoral rather than

Slowly recovering from the licentious excesses of the Restoration, society at this time was perhaps unmoral rather than immoral.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

perhaps unexpected resistance that

The real loss was more severely felt by the Romans, in proportion to the smallness of their numbers; but the Goths were so deeply confounded and dismayed by this vigorous, and perhaps unexpected, resistance, that they remained seven days within the circle of their fortifications.
— 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

packed up ready to

and with this the two boys started on a run down through the fields into the open meadow, where the dry hay was being packed up ready to put on the hay rick.
— from The Bobbsey Twins in the Country by Laura Lee Hope

powers unnecessary replied the

"I should consider any further curtailment of his powers unnecessary," replied the Count.
— from For Sceptre and Crown: A Romance of the Present Time. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Gregor Samarow

probably under rather than

Its width, measured along the dip of the fault-surface is unknown; but the small distance between the centre of the isoseismal and the fault-line shows that the principal movement took place at a depth which was probably under, rather than over, one mile.
— from A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Charles Davison

pushes upward rushes trumpet

Passion swelling, all things telling, gently bounding, from him sounding, in me pushes, upward rushes trumpet tone that round me gushes.
— from Tristan and Isolda: Opera in Three Acts by Richard Wagner

placed upon Religion the

How is the child to grow up with the feeling of Religion's importance in life if the ban is placed upon Religion the moment he passes the threshold of the school-room?
— from Catholic Problems in Western Canada by George Thomas Daly

place until ready to

Marinate it, and keep in a cool place until ready to serve; then mix with it lightly a little Mayonnaise.
— from The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald

philosophers unquestionably represent the

The philosophers unquestionably represent the reflective spirit, the speculative thought, of the educated classes of Greek society.
— from Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

parallel until reaching the

The ship was hurried along at great speed on the sixtieth parallel, until reaching the meridian of eighty, when we bore away to the northward.
— from Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

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