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Reason Defined Right
Reason What It Is Reason Defined Right Reason Where The Use Of Reason Of Error And Absurdity Causes Of Absurditie Science Prudence & Sapience, With Their Difference Signes Of Science CHAPTER VI. OF THE INTERIOUR BEGINNINGS OF VOLUNTARY MOTIONS
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Remi d Reimah
Remi, d (Reimah)
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Rays differently refrangible
And such a Proof will be had, if we can shew that the Sines of Refraction of Rays differently refrangible are one to anoth
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

reapers dance round
The reapers dance round the last blades of corn, crying, “See the remains of the Horse.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

RPs der Regius
RPs = der Regius-Psalter, ed.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

rules do remain
But the strict liability of the bailee remained, as such rules do remain in the law, long after the causes which gave rise to it had disappeared, and at length we find cause and effect inverted.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Reflexion do reflect
Those Surfaces of transparent Bodies, which if the Ray be in a Fit of Refraction do refract it most strongly, if the Ray be in a Fit of Reflexion do reflect it most easily.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

recently discharged remarked
“And very recently discharged,” remarked the brother.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

regardful discriminative RESPECTIVELY
RESPECTIVE, worthy of respect; regardful, discriminative. RESPECTIVELY, with reverence.
— from The Poetaster by Ben Jonson

Rue de Rivoli
THE PALAIS DE JUSTICE AND THE SAINTE CHAPELLE Go along the Rue de Rivoli as far as the Square of the Tour St. Jacques.
— from Paris Grant Allen's Historical Guides by Grant Allen

Revue des Revues
[Translated into French by E. Lacordaire in Revue des Revues, 1894 227-235.]
— from The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

reluctance Don Ruy
With reluctance Don Ruy went up the ladder and left him there.
— from The Flute of the Gods by Marah Ellis Ryan

remarkable difference recently
It seems very possible that the remarkable difference recently observed and described by my friend Professor Daniell 292 , namely, that when a zinc and a copper ball, the same in size, were placed respectively in copper and zinc spheres, also the same in size, and excited by electrolytes or dielectrics of the same strength and nature, the zinc ball far surpassed the zinc sphere in action, may also be connected with these phenomena; for it is not difficult to conceive how the polarity of the particles shall be affected by the circumstance of the positive surface, namely the zinc, being the larger or the smaller of the two inclosing the electrolyte.
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

run down right
Vail an' Willis was run down right before our eyes.
— from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

Room Departments responded
The excellent way in which the Engine Room Departments responded to a sudden and unexpected demand reflects great credit on the officers and the whole engine room complements—this demand was made at a time when ships were coaling and making good defects during the few hours the ships were in harbour.
— from The Battle of the Falkland Islands, Before and After by Henry Edmund Harvey Spencer-Cooper


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