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Suppose two of us kick
Suppose two of us kick this glass through on a given signal, and two kick out the second window?
— from The Mercer Boys at Woodcrest by Capwell Wyckoff

strictness the only useful kind
Accordingly, the most useful, and in strictness the only useful kind of essential propositions, are Definitions: which, to be complete, should unfold the whole of what is involved in the meaning of the word defined; that is, (when it is a connotative word,) the whole of what it connotes.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Stuart Mill

strictness the only useful kind
Accordingly, the most useful, and in strictness the only useful kind of essential propositions, are Definitions: which, to be complete, should unfold the whole of what is involved in the meaning of the word defined; that is (when it is a connotative word), the whole of what it connotes.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

subjects to obey us kings
[375] The learned William B. Fowle strangely imagines all pronouns to be adjectives , belonging to nouns expressed or understood after them; as, "We kings require them (subjects) to obey us (kings).
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

stirrup the old useless knotted
Far back on the mule sits Napoleon, consulting his own ease alone, not sparing man or beast—he was not given to spare man or beast—his muscles relaxed, his lean shapely leg instinctively gripping the saddle, his small handsome foot resting idly in the stirrup, the old useless knotted bridle lying on the mule's neck, his grey coat buttoned high up, and blown forward by the wind, his right hand in his inner coat, his slight graceful chest well up, and, above it, his face!
— from Horae subsecivae. Rab and His Friends, and Other Papers by John Brown


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