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thine enemies by bestowing upon them tokens

X. Study to overcome and to pacify thine enemies, by bestowing upon them tokens of love and kindness .
— from True Christianity A Treatise on Sincere Repentence, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc. by Johann Arndt

the elder brother brought up to the

But the elder brother, brought up to the cut-and-dried routine of the potteries life, had little patience with what he looked on as the younger’s shiftless dreamings.
— from The Boyhood of Great Inventors by A. Fraser Robertson

the event but bearing up towards the

For now nothing appeared in sight but enemies, save one small ship called the Pilgrim, commanded by Jacob Whiddon, who hovered all night to see what might be the event; but, bearing up towards the Revenge in the morning, was hunted like a hare among so many ravenous hounds, yet escaped.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr

the excommunicated bishops but unbending to the

On the afternoon of the next day, accompanied by twelve others, they made their way into the archbishop's house; he was prevailed upon by his friends to proceed to the Church; thither, however, the conspirators followed him; they demanded that he should absolve the excommunicated bishops, but, unbending to the last, he bid defiance to their menaces; upon which he was struck down by repeated blows at the foot of the altar.
— from Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies. Volume I by Anonymous

that enslaves But binds us to them

Each link of the chain that enslaves, But binds us to them and to thee."
— from Poets of the South A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies with Typical Poems, Annotated by F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter

to escape by breaking unarmed through the

Realizing finally that to remain quiet was to meet certain death, Carver and a few others attempted to escape by breaking unarmed through the surrounding lines of Indian fiends.
— from Explorers and Travellers by A. W. (Adolphus Washington) Greely

the earth but be useful to the

The word of command at first, “Hitherto shalt thou go, and no further,” keeps those waters linked together in their den, that they may not ravage the earth, but be useful to the inhabitants of it.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

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