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speed the right and if not then

“Alas!” said the queen, “I made this dinner for a good intent, and no evil, so God help me in my need.” “My lord the king,” said Sir Mador, “I require you heartily as you be a righteous king give me a day when I may have justice.” “Well,” said the king, “I give ye this day fifteen days, when ye shall be ready and armed in the meadow beside Westminster, and if there be a knight to fight with you, God speed the right, and if not, then must my queen be burnt.” When the king and queen were alone together he asked her how this case befell.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

sent to Rome and interred near those

23 Note 21 ( return ) [ Her remains were sent to Rome, and interred near those of her sister Constantina, in the suburb of the Via Nomentana.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Still the relative age is not the

Still, the relative age is not the sole cause which fixes the sex of the child.
— from The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys

swords to rust and its navies to

Alas, that it should be so: yet true it is, that that nation dooms itself to disaster, if not destruction, which, pursuing only the arts of peace, leaves its swords to rust, and its navies to rot, and forts with empty embrasures to moulder into ruins.
— from The Angels' Song by Thomas Guthrie

say The rarefied air is nearer the

In describing the aurora borealis (page 93), these authors say, “The rarefied air is nearer the earth at the poles than the equator, in consequence of the earth’s centrifugal motion, and, the earth being negatively electrified, negative electricity will flow from this point, directed against the positively electrified upper layers of rarefied air .”
— from The Source and Mode of Solar Energy Throughout the Universe by Isaac W. (Isaac Winter) Heysinger

Since that Rosyth affair I never travel

"Since that Rosyth affair, I never travel without it," I replied, as I stood with my back to the cheap mantel-shelf so common in English hotels.
— from Once a Week by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

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