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sea there exist veins of

"First off, I'll mention that at the bottom of the sea there exist veins of zinc, iron, silver, and gold whose mining would quite certainly be feasible.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

secure the electoral vote of

New Jersey argues that Woodrow Wilson is the only candidate who can not only make Democratic success a certainty, but secure the electoral vote of almost every State in the Union.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

simulates the external variety of

In this way the hernia, 11, although situated internal to the epigastric artery, assumes an oblique course through the canal, and thus closely simulates the external variety of inguinal hernia, Fig.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

seen the extreme vanity of

I have seen the extreme vanity of this world:
— from Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson

sat the enchanting vision of

I looked; and in an open carriage which approached us, passing slowly down the street, sat the enchanting vision of the opera, accompanied by the younger lady who had occupied a portion of her box.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

show the exceeding value of

To show the exceeding value of the ore, I will remark that a sixteen-hundred-pounds parcel of it was sold, just as it lay, at the mouth of the shaft, at one dollar a pound; and the man who bought it “packed” it on mules a hundred and fifty or two hundred miles, over the mountains, to San Francisco, satisfied that it would yield at a rate that would richly compensate him for his trouble.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

stain The even virtue of

Swear priests and cowards, and men cautelous, Old feeble carrions, and such suffering souls That welcome wrongs; unto bad causes swear Such creatures as men doubt; but do not stain The even virtue of our enterprise, Nor th’ insuppressive mettle of our spirits, To think that or our cause or our performance Did need an oath; when every drop of blood That every Roman bears, and nobly bears, Is guilty of a several bastardy, If he do break the smallest particle Of any promise that hath pass’d from him.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

smaller the exchangeable value of

The smaller the quantity of manufactured produce, which any given quantity of rude produce, or, what comes to the same thing, which the price of any given quantity of rude produce, is capable of purchasing, the smaller the exchangeable value of that given quantity of rude produce; the smaller the encouragement which either the landlord has to increase its quantity by improving, or the farmer by cultivating the land.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

show the extreme value of

The very rich presents made by the queen show the extreme value of her commerce with the Hebrew monarch.
— from Bible Characters by Dwight Lyman Moody

short time every vestige of

In an incredibly short time every vestige of the pie had disappeared, and a blissful stickiness pervaded the party.
— from What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge

SHAKESPEARE THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION OF

for COMPLETE SHAKESPEARE ***** THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION OF THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE IS COPYRIGHT 1990-1993 BY WORLD LIBRARY, INC., AND IS PROVIDED BY PROJECT GUTENBERG ETEXT OF CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY WITH PERMISSION.
— from The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth by William Shakespeare

subject to extreme variations of

Aircraft guns are subject to extreme variations of temperature, and so they must be certain to function perfectly in the zero cold of the high altitudes, regardless of the contraction of their metal parts.
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell

successor the exact value of

“I am no statesman,” said the notary; “I see in a ruler a liquidator of society which should always remain in liquidation; he should hand over to his successor the exact value of the assets which he received.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

seen the expensive victory of

One bustling week had seen the expensive victory of Karee, the disasters of Sanna's Post and Reddersberg, and the successful skirmish of Boshof.
— from The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle

suddenly the excited voice of

Then, suddenly, the excited voice of Thure was heard, booming out through the hole.
— from The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49 by Everett McNeil

suppose that equal volumes of

The simplest possible hypothesis in this respect would be that the volumes of the molecules of substances are equal; or, what is the same thing, to suppose that equal volumes of vapours and gases contain an equal number of molecules.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

successively the entire valley of

As it was more remote from the isthmus, and formed the Egyptian horizon in that direction, all the new countries with which the Egyptians became acquainted beyond its northern limits were by degrees included under the one name of Lotanû, and this term was extended to comprise successively the entire valley of the Jordan, then that of the Orontes, and finally even that of the Euphrates.
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 4 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

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