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soon preferred a round and delicate arm

Nature gradually resumed her rights: he soon preferred a round and delicate arm to that which was strong and masculine; and when he contemplated the elegance and softness of contour in the female form, he began to be cured.
— from A Treatise on the Diseases Produced By Onanism, Masturbation, Self-Pollution, and Other Excesses. by L. (Léopold) Deslandes

standing pools and rivers and ditches all

They say, wherever water is found, some or other species of these minute wonders may be met with; standing pools, and rivers, and ditches all have them; and some particularly beautiful are to be found in bog water; so with, I am afraid you will think, a not very commendable impatience, I am pointing my steps towards a bog that I know—in the wish to get some of the best first."
— from The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner

similarly protected as ratters are described as

They are real pets, showing no fear and offering no harm; the closely related "rat snakes" of India, on the other hand, although similarly protected as ratters, are described as diabolical in temper, and thus usually remain untamable.
— from Zoölogy: The Science of Animal Life Popular Science Library, Volume XII (of 16), P. F. Collier & Son Company, 1922 by Ernest Ingersoll

such people as Ratzel Arthur Dix and

It is a well-known geographical and historical demonstration which such people as Ratzel, Arthur Dix, and Lamprecht will take up later on, comparing conflicts between peoples to a savage fight between conceptions and realizations of space and declaring that all history is moving towards German hegemony.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 5 by Various

sea pale and rigid as death as

The poor girl sat with her eyes fixed on the sea, pale and rigid as death, as if a pistol shot had struck her in those fatal words, a plain man, with fixed principles and sound morality .
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

same position and rank and duties and

Did you have the same position and rank and duties and occupation during the period of November 22 to 24, 1963?
— from Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

small particles and remains as dry as

The snow falls in small particles, and remains as dry as dust.
— from Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various

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