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such a process remained unconscious
If such a process remained unconscious, then this separation from consciousness is perhaps only an indication of the fate to which it has submitted and not this fate itself.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

soldiers and people running up
So to coach back again; and at White Hall light, and saw the soldiers and people running up and down the streets.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

sedent a promovendo reliquos ut
gratiam non accepit, si non accipit, non habet, et si non habet, nec gratus potest esse; tantum enim absunt istorum nonnulli, qui ad clavum sedent a promovendo reliquos, ut penitus impediant, probe sibi conscii, quibus artibus illic pervenerint.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

such a perilous responsibility upon
At heart he had the vague consciousness of his own incapacity to command a big army in the field; he feared to take such a perilous responsibility upon his shoulders.
— from Confessions of the Czarina by Radziwill, Catherine, Princess

spelling and punctuation remains unchanged
Variations in hyphenation have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.
— from Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth by Henry George

spelling and punctuation remains unchanged
Variations in hyphenation have been standardized but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.
— from The Fall of the Great Republic (1886-88) by Henry Standish Coverdale

Skinny and Pedro round up
An hour later Old Heck, Bert, Charley and the Ramblin' Kid rode away from the ranch to help Chuck, Skinny and Pedro round up and return to the big pasture the cattle that had broken out and were rushing toward their old range on the Purgatory.
— from The Ramblin' Kid by Earl Wayland Bowman

spelling and punctuation remain unaltered
Typographical errors have been silently corrected but other variations in spelling and punctuation remain unaltered.
— from Anthropology and the Classics Six Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford by Gilbert Murray

supplies all possible repression upon
It most surely supplies all possible repression upon the criminal classes in society....
— from A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science by James Leslie Allan Kayll

space as possible round under
The flame and hot draft of the furnaces are made to circulate thoroughly throughout the setting, traversing as great a space as possible round, under and above the retorts before egress is allowed to the main flue communicating with the chimney.
— from All about Battersea by Henry S. Simmonds


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