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shall then occupy our places some

We would leave, for the consideration of those who shall then occupy our places, some proof that we hold the blessings transmitted from our fathers in just estimation; some proof of our attachment to the cause of good government, and of civil and religious liberty; some proof of a sincere and ardent desire to promote everything which may enlarge the understandings and improve the hearts of men.
— from Daniel Webster for Young Americans Comprising the greatest speeches of the defender of the Constitution by Daniel Webster

stability the only one possible so

Natural automatic stability (the only one possible so far as models are concerned) necessitates permanent or a permanently recurring coincidence (to coin a phrase) of the centre of gravity and the centre of pressure: the former is, of course, totally unaffected by the vagaries of the latter, any shifting of which produces a couple tending to destroy equilibrium. § 5.
— from The Theory and Practice of Model Aeroplaning by V. E. (Valentine Edward) Johnson

she turned out of Prince s

At the closing hour she went out into Lothbury with the other girls; but instead of going up Moorgate Street as usual, she turned out of Prince's Street to her right, and thence made her way westward as quickly as she could for the crowd.
— from The Divine Fire by May Sinclair

She thought of other phrases such

She thought of other phrases, such as 'Please go away,' and 'Do you mind leaving me for a while?'
— from Leonora by Arnold Bennett

supports the opinion of previous students

This supports the opinion of previous students that E. palmeri is a close relative of E. umbrinus which occurs immediately to the north and east.
— from The Baculum in the Chipmunks of Western North America by John A. White

sent there out of personal spite

Those who would form a proper opinion of our Empire should remember that this horrible prison was at the disposal of each of the Ministers and their sycophants, and that hundreds of entirely innocent people of both sexes had for years been sent there out of personal spite or jealousy, and also in the furtherance of Germany's aims for the coming war.
— from The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia by William Le Queux

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