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Ralph Ellerker was eagerly desirous

Sir Ralph Ellerker was eagerly desirous to see the heart taken out of Adam Damlip, who was wrongfully put to death.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

right etc without empirical data

[Pg 136] right, etc., without empirical data, by speculative reasoning without experience.
— from The Positive Outcome of Philosophy The Nature of Human Brain Work. Letters on Logic. by Joseph Dietzgen

regularly every week except during

I have regularly every week, except during the holidays, brought with me from Beaumont College, near Windsor, where I lecture, a quart of cream treated with one ounce of the boroglyceride; it has always kept perfectly good even in the hottest weather.
— from Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians by William K. (William King) David

run ez well ez do

"Derned ef you can't run, ez well ez do other things!"
— from Frank Merriwell's Bravery by Burt L. Standish

reason even why else does

The Indian believes 133 that instinct comes more directly from the “Great Mystery” than reason even; why else does an animal or child show wisdom without thought?
— from Indian Scout Talks: A Guide for Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls by Charles Alexander Eastman

remarkable encomium was Edward de

The subject of this remarkable encomium was Edward de Vere (1550-1604), seventeenth Earl of Oxford.
— from Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois by George Chapman

rise early will ever do

"I have, all my life long, been lying till noon: yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good."
— from Dr. Johnson and His Circle by John Cann Bailey

right ear was entirely deaf

He had also a ringing and deafness in both ears for ten years, and at times the right ear was entirely deaf.
— from An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health by R. D. (Reuben Dimond) Mussey

rise early will ever do

"I have all my life been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
— from Leaves in the Wind by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner

rise early will ever do

[587] ; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by James Boswell

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