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to his own room under pretext

They both entered the room, but before they had been long together Giovanni left his wife and father and retired to his own room under pretext of writing letters until dinner-time.
— from Sant' Ilario by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

to his own room upstairs partly

There was a little panelled room off the billiard-room, which he had seen the evening before, with just one lovely early Dutch picture in it, and he went there rather than to his own room upstairs, partly because he wanted to look at the picture again, partly because of the satisfaction of making use of as many rooms as possible in this beautiful ancient house, in which for two days he was at home.
— from The Hall and the Grange: A Novel by Archibald Marshall

to her own room under pretence

And her impulse to shed tears became so great, that when they left the dinner-table she escaped to her own room, under pretence of a headache.
— from Jacqueline — Volume 1 by Th. Bentzon

the hall others ran upon poor

Some howling and crying carried him into the hall, others ran upon poor Pamphilus, tearing his beard and pulling him by the hair of the head, and almost stunned him with blows.
— from The Pilgrim of Castile; or, El Pelegrino in Su Patria by Lope de Vega

to her own room until past

Miss Pengarvon did not retire to her own room until past midnight, and then she left her sister in what seemed to be a quiet and refreshing sleep.
— from The Heart of a Mystery by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

two hours over ridges up peaks

We wandered on aimlessly for two hours, over ridges, up peaks, and down into shallow valleys, getting deeper and deeper apparently into the heart of the mountains but finding no shelter from the storm.
— from Tent Life in Siberia A New Account of an Old Undertaking; Adventures among the Koraks and Other Tribes In Kamchatka and Northern Asia by George Kennan

T H on rhymes upon places

T. (H.) on rhymes upon places, 427. —— winter thunder, 81.
— from Notes and Queries, Index to Seventh Volume, January-June 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

the habit of reflection upon purposes

Indeed, as the habit of reflection upon purposes comes [Pg 285] to be more firmly fixed, and the procedure of valuation to be consciously methodical and orderly, the sensuous content of the presented self must grow constantly more and more attenuated until it has declined into a mere unexpressed principle or maxim or tacit presumption, prescribing the free and impartial application of the method of valuation to particular practical emergencies as these arise.
— from Studies in Logical Theory by John Dewey

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