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That I may not appear to have

That I may not appear to have said this without reason, I will add a Fable about the Weasel and the Mice.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

text is marked NPE and this has

In some places (like the Terra and Sirius listing for Vilb, above), the text is marked NPE, and this has been taken to mean No Precise Equivalent.
— from Extracts from the Galactick Almanack: Music Around the Universe by Laurence M. Janifer

the invention might not appear to have

A hatter, who might be trusted with the secret, made a great number as a new fashion, and which were worn by many who did not understand the joke; we ourselves were the last to adopt them, that the invention might not appear to have come from us.
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

that it might never again trouble him

Her first impulse was to go and caress him, and explain away the cipher so that it might never again trouble him in this way.
— from The Cryptogram: A Novel by James De Mille

that I might not alarm the house

I remember, for example, that I was gliding down a stream, where the boughs overhead were as shady as the waters, and there were holy eyes that seemed to cool my fever; but suddenly the stream became choked with corpses, that entangled their dead limbs with mine, until I strangled and called aloud,—waking up O'Ganlon and some reporters who proposed to give me morphine, that I might not alarm the house.
— from Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend

thou in My name above the horizon

144 Arise thou, in My name, above the horizon of renunciation, and set, then, thy face towards the Kingdom, at the bidding of thy Lord, the Lord of strength and of might.
— from The Summons of the Lord of Hosts by Bahá'u'lláh

that I may now and then have

"And I," said Leander, "wish that I may now and then have a small share in your remembrance."
— from The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

there is much noise about the house

If there is much noise about the house that cannot be avoided, it is a good plan to put cotton in the ears of the patient.
— from Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics by B. G. (Benjamin Grant) Jefferis

That I may not appear to have

FOOTNOTES: [1] That I may not appear to have spoken too irreverently of Junius, I have here subjoined a few specimens of his etymological extravagance.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson

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