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the happy event to

When the barbican was carried, the Sable Knight sent notice of the happy event to Locksley, requesting him at the same time, to keep such a strict observation on the castle as might prevent the defenders from combining their force for a sudden sally, and recovering the outwork which they had lost.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

they had employed the

[104] Additional force of the , &c. Crovier understands this to signify that the Romans did not employ a greater force for besieging Antium, than they had employed the preceding year, and which at that time seemed insufficient for the purpose.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

to his Excellency the

All attention was now directed to the letter, the descent of which, and the consequences attending thereupon, had proved so fatally subversive of both person and personal dignity to his Excellency, the illustrious Burgomaster Mynheer Superbus Von Underduk.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

take his exercise though

He had a garden and two or three fields round his house, and there he would take his exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave his room.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

they had examined the

It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

to his eyes the

At the conclusion of this address, the most consecutive he was ever known to utter, Mr. Jingle applied to his eyes the remnant of a handkerchief before noticed, and turned towards the door.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

turn her eyes to

Her comfort in that day's dinner was quite destroyed: she could hardly eat anything; and when Sir Thomas good-humouredly observed that joy had taken away her appetite, she was ready to sink with shame, from the dread of Mr. Crawford's interpretation; for though nothing could have tempted her to turn her eyes to the right hand, where he sat, she felt that his were immediately directed towards her.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

to have everything to

Is he to have everything to himself and be always comfortable?
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The horses eat the

The horses eat the fresh green grass in the field.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

that has evidently tongue

“He seems perfectly natural to me,” the other replies; and it is this first “revelation” that has evidently tongue-tied the “reportorial” company.
— from Henry Irving's Impressions of America Narrated in a Series of Sketches, Chronicles, and Conversations by Joseph Hatton

to have entered the

The son of a tradesman of Exeter, he is said to have entered the navy as a midshipman, but to have been thrice dismissed from his ship for bad conduct.
— from William Pitt and the Great War by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

tell his enemies that

With the dead of both friend and foe strewn thick around him, there he lay, his handsome face still lighted up with a glorious and triumphant smile, as if the magnanimous soul that so long had animated those noble features had, in rising, stamped it there to tell his enemies that, though fallen, he had fallen and conquered.
— from Burl by Morrison Heady

the hidden evil to

I saw him extend his short flipper of an arm for a gesture that took in the forest, the creek, the mud, the river,—seemed to beckon with a dishonoring flourish before the sunlit face of the land a treacherous appeal to the lurking death, to the hidden evil, to the profound darkness of its heart.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

the highway enters the

The man or woman who, leaving the highway, enters the garden of paradise is almost certain in the fulness of time to be struggling in the deadly swamp."
— from The Call of the Blood by Robert Hichens

they have engaged themselves

What! millions of men have sold their arms and parted with their liberty without knowing the import of the contract; they have engaged themselves upon the promise of continuous work and adequate reward; they have executed with their hands what the thought of the employers had conceived; they have become, by this collaboration, associates in the enterprise: and when monopoly, unable or unwilling to make further exchanges, suspends its manufacture and leaves these millions of laborers without bread, they are told to be RESIGNED!
— from System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Misery by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon

too hard explained the

“Guess I must have worked too hard,” explained the other, with a grin, “because it seemed just like I’d strained my muscles some way.
— from The Boy Scouts on War Trails in Belgium; Or, Caught Between Hostile Armies by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917

that he expressed the

But the curious thing about the boy was that he expressed the passions of pride and lust and cruelty more intensely even than Rops, [sic] more spontaneously than anyone who ever held pencil.
— from Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1 by Frank Harris

the happy excitement the

This accounts for the happy excitement the sight 156 of a perfect specimen of the opposite sex, or even its conception in the fantasy, is able to awake in the heart of the individual.
— from Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence by Bernard Simon Talmey

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