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surnamed Præsamarci and the

Next to these we have, belonging to the jurisdiction of Lucus 3088 , after passing the river Navilubio 3089 , the Cibarci 3090 , the Egovarri, surnamed Namarini, the Iadoni, the Arrotrebæ 3091 , the Celtic Promontory, the rivers Florius 3092 and Nelo, the Celtici 3093 , surnamed Neri, and above them the Tamarici 3094 , in whose peninsula 3095 are the three altars called Sestianæ, and dedicated 3096 to Augustus; the Capori 3097 , the town of Noela 3098 , the Celtici surnamed Præsamarci, and the Cileni 3099 : of the islands, those worthy of mention are Corticata 3100 and Aunios.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

stern perhaps and the

Life was stern in those days, too stern perhaps, and the intensity of the struggle against despotism made men narrow and hard.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

some point about the

And then, to my great relief, Mr. Henry Lynn summoned them to the other side of the room, to settle some point about the deferred excursion to Hay Common.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

says Preneste a town

For Pompey could pardon the whole city of the Mamertines, though furiously incensed against it, upon the single account of the virtue and magnanimity of one citizen, Zeno,—[Plutarch calls him Stheno, and also Sthemnus and Sthenis]—who took the fault of the public wholly upon himself; neither entreated other favour, but alone to undergo the punishment for all: and yet Sylla’s host, having in the city of Perugia —[Plutarch says Preneste, a town of Latium.]—manifested the same virtue, obtained nothing by it, either for himself or his fellow-citizens.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

She plucked and tore

'She plucked and tore at her arms for a little time; but I held her hands, and she soon dropped off.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

such propositions as these

But by such propositions as these ancient psychology is refuted.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

still peacefully asleep to

I stole back, leaving the sick lady still peacefully asleep, to give the gardener instructions about bringing the doctor.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

such passivity and therefore

The tendency to such passivity, and therefore to heteronomy of the Reason, is called prejudice ; and the greatest prejudice of all is to represent nature as not subject to the rules that the Understanding places at its basis by means of its own essential law, i.e. is superstition .
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

same purpose as that

The priest Hroald the Long-winded, who was a very eloquent man, spoke in the case; but his speech was to the same purpose as that of others who had spoken before.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Sunday pants and this

“How does it come when you dressed yourself you put on your Sunday pants, and this is only Tuesday?”
— from The Revolt of the Oyster by Don Marquis

slight pause at the

There was a slight pause at the other end of the wire.
— from Indiscretions of Archie by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

St Peter and the

236 Before his death Judas betrayed him, St. Peter denied him; after his death, St. Peter and the rest of the Apostles traversed the world to bear witness to his truth, and thousands of people have died rather than utter what the chief of the Apostles once uttered from fear of a maid-servant’s taunts.
— from Saint John Chrysostom, His Life and Times A sketch of the church and the empire in the fourth century by W. R. W. (William Richard Wood) Stephens

so persistently all the

She talked so persistently all the rest of the way that it was evident she meant to say nothing more on the subject of unwholesome air.
— from Donna Teresa by Frances Mary Peard

shadows paled and the

Little by little the shadows paled, and the spectral tree-trunks showed more distinctly against the brightening sky, while crimson bars gleamed across the gateway of the east.
— from Wild Folk by Samuel Scoville

Such prayers as those

Such prayers as those of Binney do.
— from The London Pulpit by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

summer passed and the

So the summer passed, and the cool crisp days of autumn came.
— from The Adventures of Bob White by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

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