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remained ajar but by engaging the

It was not closed, however, it still remained ajar; but by engaging the housekeeper in incessant conversation, she hoped to make it practicable for him to chuse his own subject in the adjoining room.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

regularly and buy books enough to

That means again that the readers to whom he is to appeal are mainly the middle class, who are not very highly cultivated, but who have at any rate reached the point of reading their newspaper and magazine regularly, and buy books enough to make it worth while to supply the growing demand.
— from English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century by Leslie Stephen

rather as brute beasts eager to

Thrusting the neckerchief into his pocket, Ravenslee clenched his fists, and, saying no more, they closed and fought—not as men, but rather as brute beasts eager to maim and rend.
— from The Definite Object: A Romance of New York by Jeffery Farnol

recalls accompanied by bouquets etc the

At the close of the opera, after the usual number of recalls, accompanied by bouquets, etc., the curtain rose, and at the rear of the stage was an immense American eagle about to soar, beneath which was the word "Patti," and over it "1859-1884."
— from The Mapleson Memoirs, 1848-1888, vol II by James Henry Mapleson

reports and by Burgoyne except that

The time given by Burgoyne and the Captain of the American cruiser exactly tallied, while there was a further similarity between the description of the island as recorded by the written reports and by Burgoyne, except that the former had not discovered the existence of life on the island.
— from The Third Officer: A Present-day Pirate Story by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

rebel against being bullied even though

I tried to rebel against being bullied, even though the hand of iron was padded with velvet.
— from The Prairie Mother by Arthur Stringer

return and be blackguard enough to

Sometimes, after I had lost the trifle supplied me by my mother, I would return, and be blackguard enough to assume the bully unless my demands on her for a further supply were attended to.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

robust and bold bold enough to

I was robust and bold: bold enough to fasten the cables of the military machines—to traverse dark forests, or to enter, armed and helmeted, into smoking cities....
— from The Temptation of St. Anthony by Gustave Flaubert

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