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some cases and promiscuously to

Yea many times this love will make old men and women that have more toes than teeth, dance,— John, come kiss me now, mask and mum; for Comus and Hymen love masks, and all such merriments above measure, will allow men to put on women's apparel in some cases, and promiscuously to dance, young and old, rich and poor, generous and base, of all sorts.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

same climate and produce the

For we may conjecture that all countries which lie on the same parallel (of latitude) have the same climate, and produce the same plants; but since many deserts intervene, we cannot know every place.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

St Chrysostom and perhaps the

The Catholics applauded the justice of Heaven, which avenged the persecution of St. Chrysostom; and perhaps the emperor was the only person who sincerely bewailed the loss of the haughty and rapacious Eudoxia.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

so close as perfectly to

they grow so close as perfectly to conceal the eath.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

seemed commonplace and prosaic till

Western emigration seemed commonplace and prosaic till M. de Tocqueville said, "This gradual and continuous progress of the European race toward the Rocky Mountains has the solemnity of a providential event; it is like a deluge of men rising unabatedly, and daily driven onward by the hand of God!"
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

she cried and prayed to

And seeing Sir Lancelot, she cried and prayed to him to come and rescue her.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

she collected and pressed together

“You don’t spare anyone,” said Julie Drubetskáya as she collected and pressed together a bunch of raveled lint with her thin, beringed fingers.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

so close a pressure together

For, to extend our thoughts a little further, the pressure which is brought to explain the cohesion of bodies [*dropped line] considered, as no doubt it is, finite, let any one send his contemplation to the extremities of the universe, and there see what conceivable hoops, what bond he can imagine to hold this mass of matter in so close a pressure together; from whence steel has its firmness, and the parts of a diamond their hardness and indissolubility.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

so common a practice that

If Mr. Darwin had said that by some inadvertence, which he was unable to excuse or account for, a blunder had been made which he would at once correct so far as was in his power by a letter to the Times or the Athenæum , and that a notice of the erratum should be printed on a flyleaf and pasted into all unsold copies of the “Life of Erasmus Darwin,” there would have been no more heard about the matter from me; but when Mr. Darwin maintained that it was a common practice to take advantage of an opportunity of revising a work to interpolate a covert attack upon an opponent, and at the same time to misdate the interpolated matter by expressly stating that it appeared months sooner than it actually did, and prior to the work which it attacked; when he maintained that what was being done was “so common a practice that it never occurred,” to him—the writer of some twenty volumes—to do what all literary men must know to be inexorably requisite, I thought this was going far beyond what was permissible in honourable warfare, and that it was time, in the interests of literary and scientific morality, even more than in my own, to appeal to public opinion.
— from Unconscious Memory by Samuel Butler

so clamorously and persistently that

These bare-footed Arabs offered for sale scarabs, stone mummy images, mummified feet, skulls, beads, and trinkets so clamorously and persistently that our dragoman had to [Pg 324] use his long lashed whip to clear the way.
— from A Trip to the Orient: The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise by Robert Urie Jacob

several clerks and pointed to

He stood and waited until the last customer was gone, and then called several clerks and pointed to where the safe had stood.
— from The Einstein See-Saw by Miles John Breuer

such customers as presented themselves

Harriet eked out her truce with profiteering landlords and dry goods stores by digging muck from under the claws of such customers as presented themselves for the purpose.
— from Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol 1, No. 11, August, 1920 America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy by Various

six children and put them

You collect six children, and put them on a doorstep, while you walk up and down with the book and cane.
— from Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

second care after provisioning the

The lieutenant's second care after provisioning the boys, was to make another appeal to the revenue officer, or rather to place that person again in his rightful position of responsibility.
— from Camp Venture: A Story of the Virginia Mountains by George Cary Eggleston

South Carolina appeared produced their

Several other members, to wit: Abram Trigg , from Virginia; George W. Campbell , from Tennessee; and Robert Marion , from South Carolina, appeared, produced their credentials, and took their seats in the House.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

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