"rapace" hidden in books

Rawdon are playing at cards every

He and Rawdon are playing at cards every night, and you know he is very poor, and Rawdon will win every shilling from him if he does not take care.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

represents Arthur Poinsett as calmly explaining

A scene in Gabriel Conroy represents Arthur Poinsett as calmly explaining to Doña Dolores that he is the person who seduced and abandoned Grace Conroy; and he makes this statement without a sign of shame or regret.
— from The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin

retained and printed as chapter eighteen

The remainder of her manuscript was retained and printed as chapter eighteen.
— from The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. IV March, 1903-December, 1903 by Oregon Historical Society

rights and privileges and cannot extend

His stipulations in this respect are necessarily limited to his own property, rights, and privileges, and cannot extend to those of other persons.
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

regarded as possessing a corrective efficacy

They show that punishments are still regarded as possessing a corrective efficacy, because the conception that the so-called delinquent children may be a pathological product and a result of disastrous family and social conditions, has not yet penetrated with sufficient clearness.
— from Pedagogical Anthropology by Maria Montessori

raise a perpendicular A C equal

At the extremity of a right line A B, equal to 0 m , 700 (27.56 inches), that is to say the length of the bow, raise a perpendicular A C, equal to the length of the cylindrical portion, namely 0 m , 110 (4.33 inches).
— from The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. by Henry Saint-George

respect and protect all churches equally

Would the government, if it were accepted by the church, understand it as implying its obligation to respect and protect all churches equally as representing the spiritual order, or as asserting its freedom to govern and oppress all at will, the true church as the false?
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

rifles and pistols and carefully examined

Lieutenant Hallowell, of the Ninth Wisconsin Battery, was to accompany him, and both officers went at once to their quarters, took down from the walls, where they had been hanging idly for weeks, their rifles and pistols, and carefully examined and brushed them up for possible service in the dreary Arkansas bottom.
— from The Old Santa Fe Trail: The Story of a Great Highway by Henry Inman

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