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In place of the old distinctions, are we not setting up new distinctions, still more powerful to divide?
— from A Poor Man's House by Stephen Sydney Reynolds
But he does not show us, nor does science show us, why the real, the cosmos, is trustworthy: he ends by showing that it is trustworthy because he began, like all of us, by trusting it.
— from Evolution by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons
"No, no, Joe; you'd better gin th' still up, nor do such work as that!"
— from In Old Kentucky by Charles Turner Dazey
Of this Merle in her maidenly innocence was supremely unconscious, nor did she dream that the very sparkle of her eyes was completing the intoxication of wine fumes.
— from A Vendetta of the Hills by Willis George Emerson
The Mexican Indian or half-breed suffers under no disability, social or political, and is in a decided majority of the population.
— from Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by C. Reginald (Charles Reginald) Enock
He saw, standing by his side, a little, remarkably crooked and dwarfed young man, whose unnaturally large head was set upon narrow, depressed shoulders, and whose whole appearance made such an impression upon the cobbler that the latter laughed outright.
— from Marie Antoinette and Her Son by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
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