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to easily explained differences
But the very difference between the two codes gives a kind of support to the present argument; as it corresponds to easily explained differences of insight into the consequences of maintaining certain moral sanctions.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

todo el espíritu de
y modernas; y, sobre todo, el espíritu de un alto y maravilloso poeta.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

that easily enough declared
"Oh, Oz could do that easily enough," declared the man.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

the eldest Edward Duke
She has been the mother of six children, one of whom died in infancy, while the eldest, Edward, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, died in 1892 at the age of twenty-eight.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

to embellish everything did
The art of gold, which sought to embellish everything, did not disdain these homely utensils; and one may see at the Cluny Museum in Paris, among many mills of graceful form, a coffee mill of engraved iron dating from the eighteenth century, upon which are represented the four seasons.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

thing else every day
So that I perceive he goes down the wind in honour as well as every thing else, every day.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

the earlier Elizabethan drama
Yet this comedy possesses a considerable literary interest, as adapting both to Jonson’s dramatic method, and to the general moral atmosphere of his age, a theme connecting itself with some of the most notable creations of the earlier Elizabethan drama....
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

tan económico era dedicó
15 Excusado es decir que el tío Hormiga no se detuvo ni un instante a pensar en qué moro sería aquél, ni en la índole o pristino objeto de la arruinada construcción; lo único que vió desde luego más claro que el agua fué que con tantas desmoronadas piedras, y con las que él desmoronara, podía hacer allí un hermoso 20 y muy seguro corral para sus ganados; por lo que [77-6] desde el día siguiente, y como recreo muy propio de quien tan económico era, dedicó las tardes a derribar por sí mismo, y a sus solas, [77-7] lo que en pie quedaba del vetusto edificio arábigo. —¡Te vas a reventar!—le decía su mujer, al verlo llegar 25 por la noche lleno de polvo y de sudor, y
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

tropa establecida en diversos
Por la noche la tropa, establecida en diversos puntos del pueblo, ejercía la mayor vigilancia con los que entraban y salían; pero Ramos logró evadirse burlando o quizás sin 5 burlar las precauciones militares.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

to engage Eskimo drivers
Here we were to remain until the Indian and Eskimo hunters came for their Christmas and New Year’s trading, at which time, I was advised, I should probably be able to engage Eskimo drivers and dogs to carry us eastward to the Atlantic coast.
— from The Long Labrador Trail by Dillon Wallace

the English envoy Davidson
Upon the same day the English envoy, Davidson, made an energetic representation to the same magistrates, declaring that the conduct of the Ghenters was exciting regret throughout the world, and affording a proof that it was their object to protract, not suppress, the civil war which had so long been raging.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1574-84) by John Lothrop Motley

this evil every discovery
To remedy this evil, every discovery made, however apparently unimportant, should in this era of the diurnal and periodical press be put on record, and the objects themselves be either carefully kept, or given to some public scientific institution.
— from The Indian in his Wigwam; Or, Characteristics of the Red Race of America From Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

the elderly Eleanor de
Gaston Phœbus, Count of Foix and Viscount of Béarn, was the son of Gaston IX and the elderly Eleanor de Cominges.
— from A Book of the Pyrenees by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

the earliest Egyptian dynasties
Hawes, Mrs., on date of the corn-reaping in Crete, i. 232 n. Hawk, Isis in the form of a, ii. 8 ; the sacred bird of the earliest Egyptian dynasties, 21 sq. ; epithet regularly applied to the king of Egypt, 22 —— -town (Hieraconpolis) in Egypt, ii.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 of 12) by James George Frazer

the English en dernier
He then proceeds to give his views, and ends by saying:— “The point of concentration for the Prussian army was accordingly marked out between Sombreffe and Charleroi, and for the English, en dernier lieu , between Gosselies and Marchiennes.”
— from The Campaign of Waterloo: A Military History Third Edition by John Codman Ropes

tree en ef deyer
W'en you en me en dish yer chile yer wants 'simmons, we goes out en shakes de tree, en ef deyer good en ripe, down dey comes, en ef deyer good en green, dar dey stays.
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris


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