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thing in my knowledge of

" "You look ill yourself, Mr. Lydgate—a most unusual, I may say unprecedented thing in my knowledge of you," said Bulstrode, showing a solicitude as unlike his indifference the day before, as his present recklessness about his own fatigue was unlike his habitual self-cherishing anxiety.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

That I may know on

That I may know on which side this dependence lies, I consider the order of their first appearance; and find by constant experience, that the simple impressions always take the precedence of their correspondent ideas, but never appear in the contrary order.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

that I may know on

I beseech you to give an entire answer to this my rude letter, that I may know on what and how far I may depend.
— from The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes by King of England Henry VIII

that it might keep other

When Mrs. Phelps had opened the Woman's Bureau and invited The Revolution to take an office therein, Miss Anthony had warned her that it might keep other organizations of women away; but she was willing to take the risk.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

to inform Mrs Kenwigs of

Newman hastened, with joyful steps, to inform Mrs. Kenwigs of his friend’s acquiescence, and soon returning, brought back word that they would be happy to see him in the first floor as soon as convenient; that Mrs Kenwigs had, upon the instant, sent out to secure a second-hand French grammar and dialogues, which had long been fluttering in the sixpenny box at the bookstall round the corner; and that the family, highly excited at the prospect of this addition to their gentility, wished the initiatory lesson to come off immediately.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

tested in many kinds of

E He who is to hold command must be tested in many kinds of knowledge.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

that in many kinds of

To this end it works, through the immense superfluity of germs, through the urgent vehemence of the sexual instinct, through its willingness to adapt itself to all circumstances and opportunities, even to the production of bastards, and through the instinctive maternal affection, the strength of which is so great that in many kinds of animals it even outweighs self-love, so that the mother sacrifices her life in order to preserve that of the young.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

This is my knell of

There was a ringing in my ears, and I said, “This is my knell of death!”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

there is more knowledge of

Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all Tom Jones.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

the Immortals Mu Kung or

The God of the Immortals Mu Kung or Tung Wang Kung, the God of the Immortals, was also called I Chün Ming and Yü Huang Chün, the Prince Yü Huang.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

that if more knowledge of

It is however becoming probable that if more knowledge of the chemical and physical structure of organisms is to be attained, the clue will be found through Genetics, and thus that even in the uncoordinated accumulation of facts of Variation we are providing the means of analysis applicable not only to them, but to the problems of normality also.
— from Problems of Genetics by William Bateson

to its mark knocking out

If one could forget the tree, it is a pretty sight to watch the easy swing of the axe, and see how unerringly every blow goes to its mark, knocking out chips of a span's breadth.
— from In New England Fields and Woods by Rowland Evans Robinson

that Isabel Miller knew of

“I say that Isabel Miller knew of the inclosure in my letter—and I ask, What of that?”
— from My Lady's Money by Wilkie Collins

time in my knowledge of

For the first time in my knowledge of him Apache Kid's face showed that he had been hit.
— from The Lost Cabin Mine by Frederick Niven

to insufficient mathematical knowledge of

Lotze's attack on Metageometry—although it remains, so far as I know, the best hostile criticism extant, and although its arguments have become part of the regular stock-in-trade of Euclidean philosophers—contains, if I am not mistaken, several misunderstandings due to insufficient mathematical knowledge of the subject.
— from An essay on the foundations of geometry by Bertrand Russell

themes in minor keys Of

They scarce can know my rugged rhymes, The harsher songs of evil times, Nor graver themes in minor keys Of life's and death's solemnities; But haply, as they bear in mind Some verse of lighter, happier kind,— Hints of the boyhood of the man, Youth viewed from life's meridian, Half seriously and half in play
— from At Sundown, and other poems Part 5 from Volume IV of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

That is mighty kind of

“That is mighty kind of you,” said Philip.
— from A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

There is more kinds of

There is more kinds of love than one, Calote protested.
— from Long Will by Florence Converse

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