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together and sometimes more on

] Rock Samphire grows up with a tender green stalk about half a yard, or two feet high at the most, branching forth almost from the very bottom, and stored with sundry thick and almost round (somewhat long) leaves of a deep green colour, sometimes two together, and sometimes more on a stalk, and sappy, and of a pleasant, hot, and spicy taste.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

that a single moment of

Seth, who was easily touched, shed tears, and tried to recall, as he had done continually since his father's death, all that he had heard of the possibility that a single moment of consciousness at the last might be a moment of pardon and reconcilement; for was it not written in the very psalm they were singing that the Divine dealings were not measured and circumscribed by time?
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Thuilliers and Saillards Matifat obtained

As a friend of the Collevilles, Thuilliers and Saillards, Matifat obtained for them invitations from Cesar Birotteau.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

There are so many other

There are so many other things in the world that want altering—I like to take these things as they are.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

there are so many of

The casualty lists are coming out in the papers every day—oh, there are so many of them.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

that a single manuscript often

We are to remember also that parchments were scarce and very expensive, and that a single manuscript often contained all the reading matter of a castle or a village.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

to attract such men only

Only a fool likes folly; to wish to attract such men only shows her own foolishness.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

them a sure mark of

Suddenly the earl, taking his watch, promised it to the first who succeeded in giving them a sure mark of sensibility.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

they are soft medium or

Fill a pail with eggs and submerge it till they are soft, medium or hard, the time required is the same as in the kitchen.
— from Iceland: Horseback tours in saga land by W. S. C. (Waterman Spaulding Chapman) Russell

There are symphonies masses oratorios

There are symphonies, masses, oratorios and cantatas.
— from Franz Liszt : The Story of a Boy Who Became a Great Pianist and Teacher by Thomas Tapper

the animated sarcode mass of

Within the animated sarcode mass of the sponges there is in most cases a complicated skeleton of fibrous network, either horny, calcareous, or siliceous, which supports the soft mass, and determines its form.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 2 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

The Archdeacon subsequently married or

The Archdeacon subsequently married, or rather became guilty of ecclesiastical bigamy.
— from Prisoners: Fast Bound In Misery And Iron by Mary Cholmondeley

There are some minds of

There are some minds, of which Franklin's is a good type, so versatile and so shifty that they can turn with advantage to any opening that chances to offer, no matter in what direction; and such minds do right in seizing every opportunity, wherever it occurs.
— from Biographies of Working Men by Grant Allen

traders and settlers many of

It was soon found that there were five classes of sufferers who would greatly need assistance from this fund—families of civil and military officers whose bungalows and furniture had been destroyed at the stations; the families of assistants, clerks, and other subordinate employés at the stations; European private traders and settlers, many of whom had been utterly impoverished; many missionary families and educational establishments; and the families of a large number of pensioners, overseers, artificers, indigo-workers, schoolmasters, shopkeepers, hotel-keepers, newspaper printers, &c. To apportion the amount of misery among these five classes would be impossible; but the past chapters of this work have afforded examples, sufficiently sad and numerous, of the mode in which all ranks of Europeans in India were suddenly plunged into want and desolation.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

this and spent most of

He had grown deeply interested in this and spent most of his leisure at it, and it had gone far beyond his first idea of an essay.
— from Margarita's Soul: The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by Josephine Daskam Bacon

There are some made of

There are some made of leade, which they call Selwy because they ring but litle: and these be of lesser price for the poorer sort.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

the Armenian show me one

‘The English!’ said the Armenian; ‘show me one word in which the English resembles the Armenian.’
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Borrow

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