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should evermore after be obeissant and true

And one of the masters told me, that the bowing of the head at that hour betokened this; that all those that bowed their heads should evermore after be obeissant and true to the emperor, and never, for gifts ne for promise in no kind, to be false ne traitor unto him for good nor evil.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

save everything and bring out all that

Humanity will save everything and bring out all that is...."
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

seeing either a Brahmin or a trader

I do not think that you can do better than go in the disguise that you now have on; for a soldier to be galloping fast is a common sight, but people would be astonished at seeing either a Brahmin or a trader riding at full speed.
— from At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

style engineering at best only approximated these

Another point of analogy between modern engineering and modern management lies in the fact that modern engineering proceeds with comparative certainty to the design and construction of a machine or structure of the maximum efficiency with the minimum weight and cost of materials, while the old style engineering at best only approximated these results and then only after a series of breakdowns, involving the practical reconstruction of the machine and the lapse of a long period of time.
— from Shop Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor

son escaped and became outlaw and the

They then took the woman and drowned her at London Bridge; and her son escaped, and became outlaw; and the land went into the hands of the king; and the king then gave it to Ælsie, and Wulfstan Uccea his son gave it again to Bishop Æthelwold, as it is here above said.”
— from Early London: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman by Walter Besant

secretly enlisted a body of about thirteen

He now secretly enlisted a body of about thirteen thousand Greeks, promising them high pay if they would enter his service; and with these, and one hundred thousand Asiatics, he marched against his brother.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 10 (of 15), Greek by Charles Morris

superlative excellence and beauty of all that

The future for the man who lives in Christ is but the prolongation, and the heightening into superlative excellence and beauty, of all that is good in the past and in the present.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren

specimens either about Barrow or along the

They differ plainly from anything except occasional individual specimens, either about Barrow or along the rest of the west coast of Alaska, with the possible exception of a few groups of Seward Peninsula.
— from Anthropological Survey in Alaska by Aleš Hrdlička

scientist eyes a beetle or as the

Man is my study, though I do not eye him as the scientist eyes a beetle or as the philanthropist gazes at the objects of his bounty—through a veil of theory and ignorance.
— from Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry

sister Elysium a banquet of all the

Thy delight Surpasses melody, nectar, and all pleasures Of Tempe, and of Tempe's eldest sister, Elysium: a banquet of all the senses!
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 by Robert Dodsley

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