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tôn euektountôn hikanon estin eis
touto d' epi men tôn euektountôn hikanon estin eis tên threpsin, isa gar ep' autôn einai chrê tois
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

tôn ex hêpatos eis entera
eit' epi men tês tracheias artêrias ouk aporeis enallax pote men eisô paragousês eis ton pneumona to pneuma, pote d' exô, kai tôn kata tas rhinas porôn kai holou tou stomatos hôsautôs oud' einai soi dokei thaumaston oude paradoxon, ei, di' hou mikrô prosthen eisô parekomizeto to pneuma, dia toutou nyn ekpempetai, peri de tôn ex hêpatos eis entera te kai gastera kathêkousôn phlebôn aporeis kai soi thaumaston einai phainetai, dia tôn autôn anadidosthai th' hama tên trophên eis hêpar helkesthai t' ex ekeinou palin eis gastera? diorisai dê to hama touto poterôs legeis.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

the excessive heat exempts Egypt
On the other hand, the excessive heat exempts Egypt; the warm and dry vapours of the earth being very seldom condensed, and that only into light clouds.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

the earth his eager eyes
Then Ráma, speeding through the skies, Bent on the earth his eager eyes: “Look, Sítá, see, divinely planned And built by Viśvakarmá's hand, Lanká the lovely city rest Enthroned on Mount Trikúṭa's crest Behold those fields, ensanguined yet, Where Vánar hosts and giants met.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

the Europeans have established either
The Dutch settlements at the Cape of Good Hope and at Batavia, are at present the most considerable colonies which the Europeans have established, either in Africa or in the East Indies; and both those settlements an peculiarly fortunate in their situation.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

tan elocuente había estado en
[35-8] García de Paredes bebía, reía y charlaba como los demás, o quizás más que ninguno; [35-9] y tan elocuente había estado en favor de la causa imperial, que los soldados del César [35-10] lo habían 25 abrazado, lo habían vitoreado, le habían improvisado himnos.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

the enemy How exclaimed Emily
Give me the torch,' continued Ugo, after they had dismounted, 'and take care you don't stumble over any thing, that lies in your way, for the ground is not yet cleared of the enemy.' 'How!' exclaimed Emily, 'are any of the enemy here, then?' 'Nay, I don't know for that, now,' he replied, 'but when I came away I saw one or two of them lying under the trees.'
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

the enemy had entirely evacuated
Soon after the enemy had entirely evacuated Petersburg, a man came in who represented himself to be an engineer of the Army of Northern Virginia.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

the Ego has every externally
The Ego of genius is the truth, if not in the sense in which Kierkegaard would have us understand his proposition, "Subjectivity is the truth," still in the sense that the Ego has every externally valid commandment and prohibition in its power; and, to the astonishment and scandal of the world, invariably expresses itself in paradoxes.
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 2. The Romantic School in Germany by Georg Brandes

this end he employed every
To this end he employed every means to conciliate the barons.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses by Anonymous

to exchange his earthly eminence
In a word, he hoped to exchange his earthly eminence for a better glory to come, for his noble spirit had a disgust at all temporal display, and all his thoughts and desires were set on that poor miserable life wherein thou didst find him in the forest and wherein thou didst bear him company till his death."
— from The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

the enemy had evidently entertained
The rattan was across the river, and the enemy had evidently entertained the intention of reconstructing their booms that night.
— from A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 by C. A. Bampfylde

to eaten had ever eaten
pg. 105 - "ripen" to "ripens" (buds, ripens and drops off) pg. 118 - "eat" to "eaten" (had ever eaten before) pg.
— from The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley

the evening his eyes encountered
But somehow in the course of the evening his eyes encountered Marie’s from time to time, and, as far as he could judge, there was neither pity nor contempt in them, but a genuine look of tender regard which took him again and again to her side.
— from A Double Knot by George Manville Fenn

The engineers have encountered enormous
The engineers have encountered enormous difficulties in the construction of these branches, arising from the fact that they run at right angles to the watershed of the country.
— from The Heart of Asia A history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest times by Ross, E. Denison (Edward Denison), Sir

these elements have excluded each
While granite considered as a building stone presents a complex of quartz, mica, and feldspar so confusedly intercrystallized as to make a homogeneous composite, in the present mass, like the larger and similar developments in North Carolina, these elements have excluded each other in their crystallization, and are found as three separate groups only sparingly intermingled.
— from Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 by Various


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