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There is an admirable

There is an admirable description of it, signed A. J. M., in Notes and Queries , seventh series, vol.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

the Iberian and Armenian

In a course of one hundred miles, forty of which are navigable for large vessels, the Phasis divides the celebrated region of Colchos, or Mingrelia, which, on three sides, is fortified by the Iberian and Armenian mountains, and whose maritime coast extends about two hundred miles from the neighborhood of Trebizond to Dioscurias and the confines of Circassia.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

together in almost all

Beyond all this, we may find another reason why God hath scattered up and down several degrees of pleasure and pain, in all the things that environ and affect us; and blended them together in almost all that our thoughts and senses have to do with;—that we, finding imperfection, dissatisfaction, and want of complete happiness, in all the enjoyments which the creatures can afford us, might be led to seek it in the enjoyment of Him with whom there is fullness of joy, and at whose right hand are pleasures for evermore.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

There is also a

There is also a wider reference to the struggles between the Turks and the allied Christian powers, which had been going on since the siege of Vienna in 1529.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

truth is always a

New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

the incongruity and absurdity

But, nevertheless, he did not agree with that opinion of the Platonic Apuleius, of which we have already shown the incongruity and absurdity, namely, that they were interpreters and intercessors between the gods whom God made, and men whom the same God made, bringing to God the prayers of men, and from God the gifts given in answer to these prayers.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

think I am afraid

“Don't think I am afraid of such a fellow as thee art!
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

think it admirable and

I think it admirable; and, as far as I can answer for myself, shall be most happy—It seems the only improvement that could be.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

There is another aspect

There is another aspect of this inverse proportion between age and sociability—the way in which it conduces to education.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

there I am an

I am full of fears; for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world for ever.’
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

to insert an additional

The simplest, and in fact almost the only way to do this, is to insert an additional short beat before the light beat.
— from Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by Edward MacDowell

that I am able

I’ll do all the chores; and I can catch fish, cut wood and bring it 23 in, and do anything that I am able, or that you will show me how to do.”
— from Charlie Bell, The Waif of Elm Island by Elijah Kellogg

there is an attraction

Accordingly there is an attraction forward and upward at the summit of the chest.
— from How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry

there is an awful

But more: there is an awful sensation of insecurity.
— from The Andes and the Amazon; Or, Across the Continent of South America by James Orton

There is an arresting

There is an arresting piece of psychology in this.
— from The Fight for the Republic in China by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

there is also a

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— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

that I am a

The people of Monseigneur of Burgundy think that I mean to deceive them, and people there [in France] think that I am a prisoner.
— from Charles the Bold, Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 by Ruth Putnam

town itself and as

It was only after two hours' fighting that the Russians withdrew from the suburbs into the town itself, and as the bridges across the river had not suffered greatly from the fire of the great French battery, Barclay sent Prince Eugene of Wurtemberg across to reinforce the garrison.
— from Through Russian Snows: A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

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