"taadcom" hidden in books

to avoid a difficulty coming of my

At one time I did intend to have him call on you and explain more fully than I could do by letter or telegraph, so as to avoid a difficulty coming of my having made a plan here, while the convention made one there, for reorganizing Arkansas; but even his doing that has been given up for more than two weeks.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

the appointment as Deputy Commissioner of Mr

The improvement of the district dated from the appointment as Deputy Commissioner of Mr. H. S. Hartnoll, who brought to the work the necessary energy, activity, and judgment.
— from The Pacification of Burma by C. H. T. (Charles Haukes Todd) Crosthwaite

the actual and direct causation of moral

[pg 291] untouched, but attributed the actual and direct causation of moral evil to malign spiritual agency.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Books of Chronicles by W. H. (William Henry) Bennett

twenty and a distant cousin of Mrs

The family consisted of three persons—the mother, who was a widow with one son; the son himself, who was a young man of three or four and twenty; and a distant cousin of Mrs. Methven's, who lived with her, having no other home.
— from The Wizard's Son, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Then as a doubt came over me

Then as a doubt came over me: “Then why—why—” Here I stuck fast, unable to ask why he had said so many tormenting things to me, pretended to teach me German phrases, and so on.
— from The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill

then arose a dark circle of men

Its headlong career was first checked by the sight of the fire; then arose a dark circle of men, each armed and accustomed to the chase.
— from Oak Openings by James Fenimore Cooper

this artistic and dignified class of manufacture

Keen interest in the revival of this artistic and dignified class of manufacture was taken by the late Duke of Albany, under whose patronage an exhibition in furtherance of the scheme was held in Windsor Town Hall.
— from Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea. Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial by Various

than an awful distress came over my

Once he had been persuaded to take a circuit, and he says, “I had no sooner consented to try for a year, the Lord being my helper, than an awful distress came over my mind.”
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, March 1884, No. 6 by Chautauqua Institution

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