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thing it seems carried on

The House did this day order to be engrossed the Bill against importing Irish cattle; a thing, it seems, carried on by the Western Parliament-men, wholly against the sense of most of the rest of the House; who think if you do this, you give the Irish again cause to rebel.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

the Imperial Supreme Council on

A curious report by a Committee of the Imperial Supreme Council, on a project for such a currency, appears among the papers published by the Russian Mission at Peking.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

there is some cheerful or

I know that the account of this kind of solitary imprisonment is insufferably tedious, unless there is some cheerful or humorous incident to enliven it—a tender gaoler, for instance, or a waggish commandant of the fortress, or a mouse to come out and play about Latude's beard and whiskers, or a subterranean passage under the castle, dug by Trenck with his nails and a toothpick: the historian has no such enlivening incident to relate in the narrative of Amelia's captivity.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

there is some consideration of

Judges ought, above all, to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables, 574 “Salus populi suprema lex;” 575 and to know 288 that laws, except they be in order to that end, are but things captious, and oracles not well inspired; therefore it is a happy thing in a state, when kings and states do often consult with judges; and again, when judges do often consult with the king and state: the one, when there is matter of law intervenient in business of state; the other, when there is some consideration of state intervenient in matter of law; for many times the things deduced to judgment may be “meum” 576 and “tuum,” 577 when the reason and consequence thereof may trench to point of estate.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

the immensely strong conception of

The state of feeling which produced this law, against the immensely strong conception of the patria potestas , may also have produced a folklore story telling how a boy once was exposed, in a peculiarly cruel way, by his wicked parents, and how Heaven preserved him to take upon both of them a vengeance which showed that the unnatural father had no longer a father's sanctity nor the unnatural mother a mother's.
— from Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Sophocles

time I shall complain of

“What is that?” “Did you observe, D’Artagnan, that three days running they have brought us braised mutton?” “No; but if it occurs a fourth time I shall complain of it, so never mind.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

theirs it shone coldly on

His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and happiness and regrets like a moon upon a younger earth.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

that inward sinuous curve of

Even the Ape-man lacked that inward sinuous curve of the back which makes the human figure so graceful.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

through its successive changes of

So long, this Gaelic fire, through its successive changes of colour and character, will blaze over the face of Europe, and afflict the scorch all men:—till it provoke all men; till it kindle another kind of fire, the Teutonic kind, namely; and be swallowed up, so to speak, in a day!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

there is some cedar on

I ascended the hills and had a view of a rough and broken country on both sides of the river; on the North side the summits of the hills exhibit some scattering pine and cedar, on the South side the pine has not yet commenced tho there is some cedar on the face of the hills and in the little ravines.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

that is so characteristic of

He came in modestly and apologetically, with all that gentlemanly deference that is so characteristic of the British officer.
— from My New Curate by Patrick Augustine Sheehan

there is some cultivation on

Immediately about it there is some cultivation on the narrow strip of land which lies between the mountains and the sea; and corn, vines, olive trees, and mulberries for the rearing of silk-worms, are diligently grown.
— from Rambles in Istria, Dalmatia and Montenegro by R. H. R.

thing if she could only

It might do her good, too, poor thing, if she could only be induced to make the exertion.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 6, December 1852 by Various

the immense swelling curve of

One was watching the instruments, the others scanned narrowly the immense, swelling curve of the ship's belly, the water upon which his vessel was to land, and the floating dock to which it was to be moored.
— from Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

the ironical smile characteristic of

He replied with the ironical smile characteristic of him that it was simply a matter of course.
— from In the World War by Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria, Graf

that if Spotty comes on

However, he says that if Spotty comes on he will do what he can for him.”
— from Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Sewell Ford

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