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Speech people left the

Their counsel was heeded and not a hand was uplifted to resent the outrage; following the advice of the Free Speech , people left the city in great numbers.
— from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

St Peter leave the

The stay on Bering Island.—Fauna of the island.—A rich field for Steller.—His descriptions immortalize the expedition.—The sea-cow.—Its extermination.—Nordenskjöld refuted.—Preparations for wintering.—Sad death of Bering.—An estimate of his work.—Chirikoff's return.—The crew of the St. Peter leave the Island.—The Great Northern Expedition discontinued.—Bering's reports buried in Russian archives.—Bering honored by Cook 174 APPENDIX.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

simple path leads to

The journey, then, is not such as the Telephus of Æschylus describes it; for he says that a simple path leads to Hades; but it appears to me to be neither simple nor one, for there would be no need of guides, nor could any one ever miss the way, if there were but one.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

Salvadora Persica L the

Σίνᾱπι, εως, τό, mustard; in N.T., probably the shrub Khardal ( Salvadora Persica, L.), the fruit of which possesses the pungency of mustard, Mat. 13.31; 17.20, et al.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

synthetical proposition like that

For the purely intellectual conception of the contingent cannot produce any synthetical proposition, like that of causality, which is itself without significance or distinguishing characteristic except in the phenomenal world.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

St Paul landed there

St. Paul landed there.]
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

specific purposes let them

There, except for rare specific purposes, let them rest, in melancholy peace.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

she precipitately left the

" Our attendant's face turn'd as pale as ashes, and she precipitately left the apartment.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Saint Preux left the

I left the Rue des Moineaux, where this girl lodged, as much ashamed as Saint Preux left the house in which he had become intoxicated, and when I wrote his story I well remembered my own.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

so perfectly like them

As to Mer-men and Mer-maids , there certainly are such Creatures in the Sea as have some distant Resemblance of some Parts of the Human Shape, Mien, and Members; but not so perfectly like them, ’tis very probable, as has been represented.
— from Myth-Land by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme

sa papil Let the

3 [C3; c1] for a sheet to overlap s.t. Isapnig (sapníga) ang isig ka daplin sa papil, Let the edges of the paper overlap.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

she passed like that

How many nights had she passed like that!
— from Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Romain Rolland

sweet patient look than

Constant confinement in the sickroom, care, and anxiety have faded the roses that used to bloom on her cheeks; but to us she is more charming, this pale beauty, with her gentle dignity, and sweet, patient look, than the bright, merry girl of years ago.
— from The Rector of St. Mark's by Mary Jane Holmes

scabrous petrified lichen the

I had a lamp, and at my forehead the lighted candle, and I went on quickly, seeing it useless now to choose my steps where there was no choice, through a passage incrusted, roof and sides, with a scabrous petrified lichen, the roof low for some ninety yards, covered with down-looking cones, like an inverted forest of children's toy-trees.
— from The Purple Cloud by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

somewhat perverse lady that

Nevertheless the doctor stifled the feelings of petulant resentment which were rising in his bosom, and satisfied himself simply by assuring his good, though somewhat perverse lady, that it was no very unusual thing for a certain description of lunatics to maintain their own sanity by arguments which, in any other case, would be considered very excellent; though, with experienced professional men, that very fact went farther in support of their derangement than almost any other that could be brought to bear.
— from Colin Clink, Volume 1 (of 3) by Charles Hooton

salt pork lardoons through

Draw small strips of salt pork (lardoons) through edges of hearts.
— from Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners: A Book of Recipes by Elizabeth O. Hiller

sacrifice private life to

No liberty-loving people, such as the Athenians were, would consent to merge the family in the State, or to sacrifice private life to public order.
— from Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson

side precisely like the

These two special thickenings are the rudiments of the paired fins, which thus arise as special developments of a continuous ridge on each side, precisely like the ridges of epiblast which form the rudiments of the unpaired fins.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

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