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thought and resourcefulness she usually succeeds
In whatever calls for no more than an invariable technic and a feeble chicanery she usually fails; in whatever calls for independent thought and resourcefulness she usually succeeds.
— from In Defense of Women by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

that a relation so unequal should
Can we wonder that a relation so unequal should have been detested by the people when they began to think?
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages by John Lord

then a rabbit shot up straight
In a few minutes we heard rushing paws underneath us, then a rabbit shot up straight into the air from the crevice at our feet and set off for a wall that was a few feet away.
— from The Aran Islands by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

the afternoon Reeves stood up stretched
CHAPTER X Challenged TOWARDS the middle of the afternoon Reeves stood up, stretched his long limbs, and looked meditatively in the direction of the hill from which the three comrades had witnessed the mirage.
— from Captured at Tripoli: A Tale of Adventure by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

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