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should come here and designing to

'Would it be generous and honourable to step into your place—if you did so, for I don't know that you did, and I hope you did not—anticipating, or knowing beforehand, that I should come here, and designing to take me at this disadvantage?'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

sects can hold and defend their

For each of these four and twenty sects can hold and defend their opinion as certain, as the Stoics defended the position that the supreme good of man consisted solely in virtue; or they can be held as probable, but not certain, as the New Academics did.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

side constantly harassed and defied the

Each side constantly harassed and defied the other, and each constantly accused the other of all the cattle-crimes known to the raisers of hoofed beasts.
— from With Hoops of Steel by Florence Finch Kelly

slender city his Athens dearly to

80 Then, when a plague so deadly, the garrison undermining, Spent that slender city, his Athens dearly to rescue, Sooner life Theseus and precious body did offer, Ere his country to Crete freight corpses, a life in seeming.
— from The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Translated in the Metres of the Original by Gaius Valerius Catullus

should create heirs and destroy them

'Amongst the important offices of a will, it is universally agreed to be one, that from amongst the presumptive and presumptuous expectants, it should name those who are, and those who are not, to succeed to the inheritance; that it should create heirs and destroy them.
— from The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Thomas De Quincey

sailed came home as did the

The Leicester, in which Candish sailed, came home, as did the Desire.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Robert Kerr

Superior Court had also declared that

The Superior Court had also declared that a treaty of the United States predominated over a State law, and that no State could confiscate a debt owed to a British subject.
— from The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830 by Edwin Erle Sparks

She came here and devoted the

She came here and devoted the few remaining years of her life to the care of her child.
— from Senator North by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

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