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soon prancing away towards the lower end

So, with great vehemence, he overturned Sam, and, giving two or three contemptuous snorts, flourished his heels vigorously in the air, and was soon prancing away towards the lower end of the lawn, followed by Bill and Jerry, whom Andy had not failed to let loose, according to contract, speeding them off with various direful ejaculations.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

ship passing again through the lower end

They walked slowly back to the ship, passing again through the lower end of the down-town Italian district.
— from The Young Wireless Operator—Afloat Or, How Roy Mercer Won His Spurs in the Merchant Marine by Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) Theiss

special pursuits and that temperament like everything

Besides, it is a temperament peculiarly sensitive, or generous, or enjoying, which at the beginning impels these to their special pursuits; and that temperament, like everything else in the world, strengthens with use, and grows with what it feeds on.
— from Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Alexander Smith

same plug and trying to loan each

Let two meet who never saw each other before, and inside of half an hour they'll be chewing tobacco from the same plug and trying to loan each other money."
— from The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Andy Adams

some points along the transmission line exceptionally

At some points along the transmission line exceptionally high towers are necessary, a notable instance being found at the crossing over the Welland Canal, where the lowest part of each span must not be less than 150 feet above the water.
— from Electric Transmission of Water Power by Alton D. Adams

sacred protection and thus the low elevates

The grandest cathedrals, with their ornamented towers or spires seeking heaven as their own, are not always the worse for a contiguous poverty of humble dwellings, which they do but seem to take under their sacred protection; and thus the low elevates still more the great.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine—Volume 62, No. 386, December, 1847 by Various

so profane as to think lightly either

If I shrink faintly from this affair of tourists and tombs, it is certainly not because I am so profane as to think lightly either of the tombs or the tourists.
— from Alarms and Discursions by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

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