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run up like elms to

The considerable improvement which may be made in common fields, as well as inclosed grounds, he demonstrates by a little spot of meadow, of about a rod and half; part of which being planted about 50 years since with willows (in a clump not exceeding four pole in length, on one side about 12) several of them at the first and second lopping, being left with a strait top, run up like elms, to 30 or 40 foot in height; which some years since yielded boards of 14 or 15 inches broad as good for flooring, and other purposes within doors, as deals, last as long, work finer, white and beautiful: ’tis indeed a good while since they were planted, but it seems the crop answer’d this patience, when he cut up as many of them (the year 1700) as were well worth 10 l.
— from Sylva; Or, A Discourse of Forest Trees. Vol. 1 (of 2) by John Evelyn

remain upright long enough to

He was staggering forward, trying in vain to remain upright long enough to cross the line.
— from Tom Fairfield's Schooldays; or, The Chums of Elmwood Hall by Allen Chapman

rise up like exhalations throughout

Melrose, and Jedburgh, and Holyrood, and a hundred more magnificent edifices, rise up like exhalations throughout a poor and barren country; the people are proud in their faith, and perhaps even prouder in the actual splendour of their altars.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 399, January 1849 by Various

rely upon legislative enactments to

We cannot rely upon legislative enactments to make people wise and good; neither can we expect to make human beings manly and womanly by keeping them out of temptation.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 04 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll

rich uncle lives exclaimed the

[Pg 52] "Why, that is where that man's rich uncle lives!" exclaimed the book agent.
— from Nelson the Newsboy; Or, Afloat in New York by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

remain unchanged longer even than

Here, too, words harden, and remain unchanged longer even than in 221 other spheres of intellectual life; nay, their influence often becomes greater the more they harden, and the more their original meaning is forgotten.
— from Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4 Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

roused up long enough to

Wolfe roused up long enough to send a brief order to the next in command, telling him just how to go ahead and capture the fort.
— from Hero Tales from History by Smith Burnham

returned under Lieutenant Evans these

A fortnight later in latitude 87° 32´ S. three more men returned under Lieutenant Evans: these are the Second Return Party.
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

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