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same position as they are

Perhaps you will be surprised that the dream work should arouse the thought "we are in exactly the same position as they are," just by the choice of the table.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

so particular about them as

As for replacing tiles, roof timbers, and rafters, we need not be so particular about them as about the parts just mentioned, because they can easily be replaced, however defective they may become.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

several people among them a

Pedestrians running for shelter into the market and under the portico of St. Paul's Church, where there are already several people, among them a lady and her daughter in evening dress.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

same person after the association

Everything—every sermon or lecture or conversation you have heard, every person who has touched your life—has left an impress upon your character, and you are never quite the same person after the association or experience.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

so peculiar as to attract

The center of the most animated group was a Musketeer of great height and haughty countenance, dressed in a costume so peculiar as to attract general attention.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

same part as the Assyrian

The first represents the same part as the Assyrian "grove."
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

Spanish Pharmacopœia and they and

Both plants are official in the Spanish Pharmacopœia and they and their preparations are common in all drug stores. Habitat.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

stand proof against them as

By long experience in War, the tact is acquired of readily appreciating the value of these incidents; high courage and stability of character stand proof against them, as the rock resists the beating of the waves.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

so poor a temper and

I didn’t quite understand why he was in so poor a temper, and why he should turn me out of the house as he did’and I had got nowhere to go to for a night’s lodgin’.
— from Kitty Alone: A Story of Three Fires (vol. 3 of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

said Philip and then as

"It's hard for any one to stay behind," said Philip; and then as Inez and Nellie came out from the house with a message for Miss South and Julia, the duty of entertaining Philip fell on Pamela.
— from Brenda's Bargain: A Story for Girls by Helen Leah Reed

scientific purposes and they are

Apart from the fact that the latter units are very generally adopted by all the Continental States, the simplicity of the decimal method of multiplying and sub-multiplying them renders 59 the system of particular usefulness for scientific purposes; and they are therefore very extensively employed even in England in scientific research.
— from Lightning Conductors: Their History, Nature, and Mode of Application by Anderson, Richard, F.C.S.

short prologue addressed to all

It is divided into seventy-two heads or chapters, and is preceded by a short prologue, addressed “to all who disdain to follow after their own wills, and desire with purity of mind to fight for the most high and true king,”
— from The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by C. G. (Charles Greenstreet) Addison

sullen pain And this anguish

Let it weep in sullen pain, And this anguish in my brain Cry itself to sleep.
— from Blooms of the Berry by Madison Julius Cawein

somewheres plugging along through a

Right off we knew Mark was going to pretend we were over in Africa or somewheres plugging along through a forest where the foot of white man had never trod or shot a gun or built a fire.
— from Mark Tidd in the Backwoods by Clarence Budington Kelland

substantially person and town are

The inconsistency in the use of the personification is, further, the more easy of explanation, since it is altogether of an ideal character, and, substantially, person and town are not distinguished.—The last words in Micah, "And His goings forth," etc., have been omitted by Matthew, because they were not needed for his purpose, which was to show that, according to the prophecies of the Old Testament, the Messiah was to be born at Bethlehem.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

sweet potatoes and tobacco and

Above the cultivated shambas , or fields of sweet potatoes and tobacco and sugar and groves of bananas, comes a strip of low bush country.
— from In Africa: Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by John T. (John Tinney) McCutcheon

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