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so Conseil replied I never

"If master will permit my saying so," Conseil replied, "I never expected to win that prize, and the Union government could have promised $100,000.00 and been none the poorer."
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

she C really is not

Her immortality is demonstrated by the previous argument, and there are many other proofs; but to see her as she C really is, not as we now behold her, marred by communion with the body and other miseries, you must contemplate her with the eye of reason, in her original purity; and then her beauty will be revealed, and justice and injustice and all the things which we have described will be manifested more clearly.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

self Come right in now

And she did not, but when we had reached her door and I was about to make an excuse, and after seeing her safe indoors hasten on in my search for Dave, she said, much more like her usual self: 'Come right in now and find out what kind of a detective I'd make if I had a chance.
— from Against Odds: A Detective Story by Lawrence L. Lynch

Standing Cow Ruin its name

This blue-headed cow, painted by an early Navajo artist on the shelter wall, gave Standing Cow Ruin its name.
— from Canyon de Chelly: The Story of Its Ruins and People by Zorro A. Bradley

such circumstances retains its natural

The hand under such circumstances retains its natural colour and appearance; in the course of time it begins to fall somewhat in temperature, indeed, but nothing is drawn into it.
— from The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various

Sir Cradock retired in no

Sir Cradock retired in no small flurry, and went to the garden to look for Jem.
— from Cradock Nowell: A Tale of the New Forest. Vol. 1 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

state Chiapas received its name

It is, however, from them, that the modern state, Chiapas, received its name.
— from In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr

so clearly reveal its nature

Probably in no other way does the Roman government so clearly reveal its nature and strength as in its method of colonization.
— from Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Andrew Stephenson

Spanish Colonel Reseguin in November

But the advice of Valdez prevailed, Diego sent young Miguel Bastidas to open a negotiation with the Spanish Colonel Reseguin in November; and on December 11th he gave himself up to Don Ramon de Arias, commandant of the column of Arequipa.
— from Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India. by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

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