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reviewed Each gust of
And when her violence reviewed— Each gust of temper, silly word, Seems so unnatural and absurd: Reduced with effort unto sense, We hear with interest intense
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

rd E G O
" 3 rd " E , G , O .
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

relenting eye Glance on
From the full choir, when loud Hosannas rise, And swell the pomp of dreadful sacrifice, Amid that scene, if some relenting eye Glance on the stone where our cold relics lye, Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heav'n, One human tear shall drop, and be forgiven.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

roots either green or
It dissolves the inward congealed blood happening by falls or bruises, and the spitting of blood, if the roots, either green or dry, be boiled in wine and drank; as also all manner of inward wounds or outward, if washed or bathed therewith.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

reasons evaporation goes on
Very much for the same reasons, evaporation goes on more slowly from water in which salt or other substances have been dissolved.
— from Dry-Farming : A System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by John Andreas Widtsoe

roof either gabled or
The front and such portion as is required of the side walls are next constructed of pizie or rough stone, with mud mortar, and the roof either gabled or skillion of bough, grass, or reed thatch, and covered with pizie, over which is sometimes put another thin layer of thatch to prevent the pizie being washed away by heavy rain.
— from Getting Gold: A Gold-Mining Handbook for Practical Men by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Francis) Johnson

remember ever going out
I don’t remember ever going out to erect new poles and run wires after such a catastrophe.
— from The Birth and Babyhood of the Telephone by Thomas Augustus Watson

Renaissance eventually got over
The glaziers of the Renaissance eventually got over the difficulty by the simple plan of inserting into quarry windows (usually unpainted) or into pattern work of plain glass only, little panes of painted glass.
— from Windows: A Book About Stained & Painted Glass by Lewis F. (Lewis Foreman) Day

rising either God or
"Well, the fact is this," said Awdrey, rising, "either God or the devil take possession of me to-night."
— from Dr. Rumsey's Patient: A Very Strange Story by L. T. Meade

Randolph Esq Governor of
The records of Henrico County Court contain the marriage bond, dated May 14, 1789, declaring that “We, Albert Gallatin and Savary de Valcoulon, are held and firmly bound unto Beverly Randolph, Esq., Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the sum of fifty pounds, current money,” the condition being “a marriage shortly to be solemnized between the above-bound {72} Albert Gallatin and Sophia Allegre.”
— from The Life of Albert Gallatin by Henry Adams

Ridsdale Esq graduate of
Dr. Latrobe had become president of the company after the death of his father, and the enterprise owed much of its success, as every body agreed, to the skill, the energy, and the wonderful common sense of its chief engineer, Thomas Ridsdale, Esq., graduate of a noted school of mines.
— from Camp Venture: A Story of the Virginia Mountains by George Cary Eggleston

RICHELIEU Early governors of
[Pg 90] CHAPTER IV THE RISE OF RICHELIEU Early governors of the Bastile—Frequent changes—Day of Barricades—Conspiracy of Biron—Assassination of Henry IV—Ravaillac—Barbarous sentence—Marie de Medicis left Regent—Story of the Concinis—Rise of Richelieu—Gifts and character—His large employment of the State prisons—Duelling prohibited—The Day of Dupes—Triumph over his enemies—Fall of Marie de Medicis—Maréchal Bassompierre—His prolonged imprisonment.
— from Early French Prisons Le Grand and Le Petit Châtelets; Vincennes; The Bastile; Loches; The Galleys; Revolutionary Prisons by Arthur Griffiths


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