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to have its machine and

But when the friction comes to have its machine, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let us not have such a machine any longer.
— from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

they have important meanings although

Such movements are often of the greatest clearness, and do not permit the unexperienced observer to doubt that they have important meanings, although they have no relation whatever to any emotional condition.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

that he is much afeard

This evening Mr. Povy was with me at my office, and tells me that my Lord Sandwich is this day so ill that he is much afeard of him, which puts me to great pain, not more for my own sake than for his poor family’s.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

thus have I made an

And so thus have I made an apology for Nuts, which cannot speak for themselves.
— 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

to have in mind at

If a man tries to illustrate the nature of a thing by assimilating it to something else which he happens to have in mind at the same time, it is obvious that a second man, whose mind is differently furnished, may assimilate the same object to a quite different idea: so myths are centrifugal, and the more elaborate and delicate they are the more they diverge, like well-developed languages.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

to her in my absence

I paced the rooms and cried aloud when I thought of how I was cut off from her, of all that might happen to her in my absence.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

taking her in my arms

“Yes, you, dearest,” I replied, going up to her and taking her in my arms.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

threw herself into my arms

La Roche accompanied her to the castle in silence; she thought I was already far from Montmorency; on perceiving me, she made the place resound with her cries, and threw herself into my arms.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

the house is mine and

He said, "Brother, the house is mine, and I do not wish to have you in it."
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

to have I may as

Now that it has been indicated what sort of a qualtagh it is unlucky to have, I may as well proceed to mention the other things which I have heard treated as unlucky in the island.
— from Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 1 of 2) by Rhys, John, Sir

to have it made against

We should make war with the aggression on our side, we should make it, deserving to have it made against us, and we should have the appearance of fearing it whilst provoking it, for a permission granted to five hundred men, to two hundred men, to fifty men, to ten men, is still a permission.
— from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas

their headquarters in Moghilev and

As security against any further attempts on England, Italian troops were occupying the whole of Southern France from Grenoble to Bordeaux; and the Germans, in addition to occupying Paris, had established their headquarters in Moghilev, and driven back the Army of the Tsar far beyond the Dnieper.
— from The Great War in England in 1897 by William Le Queux

Then he incidentally mentions a

Then he incidentally mentions a desert where he saw devils as thick as grasshoppers.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

tennis how I make a

'My achievements thou hast heard of, how I chalk the wily cue, Pull an oar, and wield the willow, and have won my double-blue; How I ride, and play lawn tennis; how I make a claret cup; Own the sweetest of bull terriers, and a grand St. Bernard pup.
— from Sagittulae, Random Verses by Edward Woodley Bowling

to helplessness in mind and

While there had been no conscious and definite purpose on the part of his parents, they nevertheless had trained him to helplessness in mind and body.
— from Without a Home by Edward Payson Roe

to help in moderating a

But though the children were never allowed to help in moderating a regular winter flood, they valued the ditch highly as a place where they could always collect enough water to sail their boats in a thoroughly satisfactory manner.
— from The Eagle's Nest by S. E. Cartwright

touching his immediate manumission and

The master of admissions, glancing round the chamber, said, addressing the slaves in general, "Claudius is not here, I perceive; let some one go for him, and say that the daughter of Crispus, of the One Hundredth Milestone, has been charged to communicate to him the pleasure of Tiberius Cæsar touching his immediate manumission; and that I, the master of admissions in the Mamurran palace, am to add a circumstance or two which will complete the information the damsel has to give.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

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