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then it becomes easier to suppose

If the thing, however, may be attributed to coincidence with a little more difficulty, then it becomes easier to suppose a causal connection; e.g., as when it rains on All-souls day, or at the new moon.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

though it be easy to such

The unwritten Law of Nature, though it be easy to such, as without partiality, and passion, make use of their naturall reason, and therefore leaves the violators thereof without excuse; yet considering there be very few, perhaps none, that in some cases are not blinded by self love, or some other passion, it is now become of all Laws the most obscure; and has consequently the greatest need of able Interpreters.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

themselves in battle enough to save

] 219.—Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.
— from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld

the individual by endeavouring to show

It can also call down a sort of vengeance upon the head of the individual by endeavouring to show that, as the result of his action, a storm of divine anger has burst over the community,—but, above all, it regards the guilt of the individual more particularly as its own guilt, and bears the punishment of the isolated individual as its own punishment— “Morals,” they bewail in their innermost heart, “morals have grown lax, if such deeds as these are possible.”
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Then it became evident that she

235 Then it became evident that she guessed what he was thinking.
— from The Greater Power by Harold Bindloss

to its base even through so

Although it is projected with sufficient force to bury itself to its base even through so tough an object as the human skin, it could inflict but little injury, and would, indeed, scarcely be felt.
— from Nature's Teachings: Human Invention Anticipated by Nature by J. G. (John George) Wood

that it became evident that she

In vain an attempt was made to steer for the Downs; the gale increased with such fury that it became evident that she would run a fearful risk of being driven on the Goodwin Sands.
— from Roger Willoughby: A Story of the Times of Benbow by William Henry Giles Kingston

the image by eliminating the soluble

After the development, which requires but a few moments, it suffices to wash the material to fix the image by eliminating the soluble compounds.
— from Photographic Reproduction Processes by Peter C. Duchochois

the islands but even to survey

Meanwhile, England, thanks to her scientific expeditions, had time not only to investigate the affairs of the islands, but even to survey them, and duly to appreciate the natural riches of this fine corner of the globe.
— from What Shall We Do? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

that I be enabled to see

Oh, my dear Sisters and Brothers, pray for me that I be enabled to see my duty more plainly.
— from Susanna and Sue by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

those incendiaries be entitled to say

Would those incendiaries be entitled to say that the town authorities were incendiaries also and "believed in setting fire to towns"?
— from The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell

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