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that I mentioned earlier avoiding

Now the ruler in our state will be somewhat like this, possessing only what is good in both those qualities, and in every quality that I mentioned earlier avoiding a fatal excess.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

that I might earn a

‘I wonder,’ thought the boy, ‘if one of these gentlemen knew there was nothing in the cupboard at home, whether he’d stop on purpose, and make believe that he wanted to call somewhere, that I might earn a trifle?’
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

the insurgents might emerge after

“All night a wide-awake watch was kept by all the officers, forward and aft, especially about the forecastle scuttle and fore hatchway; at which last place it was feared the insurgents might emerge, after breaking through the bulkhead below.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

tears in my eyes alarmed

The earnestness of my manner, and the tears in my eyes, alarmed her.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

that it may exist and

We can, obviously, suspect that it may exist, and wonder whether it does; hence it is connected with our desire for knowledge, and has the importance of either satisfying or thwarting this desire.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

that it may enjoy a

I fear that it may enjoy a certain health of its own; that we may be well, yet not pure.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

that it might earn a

The danger to society comes not from the poverty of the tenements, but from the ill-spent wealth that reared them, that it might earn a usurious interest from a class from which “nothing else was expected.”
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

though I mortgage every Acre

If Mony can keep the Slut trusty I will do it, though I mortgage every Acre; Anthony and Cleopatra for that; All for Love and the World well lost ... Then, Sir, there is my little Merchant, honest Indigo of the Change , there's my Man for Loss and Gain, there's Tare and Tret, there's lying all round the Globe; he has such a prodigious Intelligence he knows all the French are doing, or what we intend or ought to intend, and has it from such Hands.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

thunder in my ears and

I only remembered seeing a boat near me, and a man in it; and then all was dark, and I heard a loud rumbling like thunder in my ears, and my consciousness went out like the snuffing of a candle.
— from The Boy Tar by Mayne Reid

their idea might easily arise

As to rocks falling in East Africa, I think their idea might easily arise from the fall of meteoric stones."]
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

that it might end about

His brother John came to New York in the course of a little more than a year and entered another office, arranging his apprenticeship so that it might end about the same time as did that of his brother James.
— from Hidden Treasures; Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail by Harry A. Lewis

that in my experience always

When people undereat it is the digestive organs that, in my experience, always suffer the most.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

The instant made eternity And

Shirley surprised her by quoting it, as he looked ahead into the dark street through which they swung, his unswerving hand steady on the wheel: “What if we still ride on, we two, With life forever old yet new, Changed not in kind, but in degree, The instant made eternity,— And heaven just prove that I and she Ride, ride together, forever ride?”
— from The Voice on the Wire by Eustace Hale Ball

to inaugurate more earnest and

If it stirs the hearts of American readers profoundly, and so awakens the people to a sense of their duty; if it helps to inaugurate more earnest and radical modes of reform for a state of society of which a distinguished author has said, “There is not a country throughout the earth on which it would not bring a curse; there is no religion upon the earth that it would not deny; there is no people upon the earth it would not put to shame;”—then will not my work be in vain.
— from Cast Adrift by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

think it more expeditious and

If to-day we think it more expeditious and more profitable to exterminate them, we certainly neglect our duty.
— from On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Honoré Bourguignon

thereof incidentally mentioning each and

Having striven to realize this for half an hour, they got together and swore a solemn oath, first, that if Mark were dismissed, a joint statement of the reasons thereof, incidentally mentioning each and every act of hazing done by the yearlings, naming principals, witnesses, time and place, should be forwarded to the superintendent, signed by the six; and second, that every yearling who gave a demerit should be "licked until he couldn't stand up."
— from A Cadet's Honor: Mark Mallory's Heroism by Upton Sinclair

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