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the oligarchical State they are disqualified and

Because in the oligarchical State they are disqualified and driven from office, and therefore they cannot train or gather strength; whereas in a democracy they are almost the entire ruling power, and while the keener sort speak and act, the rest keep buzzing about the bema and do E not suffer a word to be said on the other side; hence in democracies almost everything is managed by the drones.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

the oligarchical State they are disqualified and

Because in the oligarchical State they are disqualified and driven from office, and therefore they cannot train or gather strength; whereas in a democracy they are almost the entire ruling power, and while the keener sort speak and act, the rest keep buzzing about the bema and do not suffer a word to be said on the other side; hence in democracies almost everything is managed by the drones.
— from The Republic by Plato

the old Sage Tasio also died and

Ah, yes, the old Sage, Tasio, also died and was buried in the Chinese cemetery.” “Poor old man!” sighed Don Filipo.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

their own several times a day an

Lastly, there were the few valleys which afforded shelter for the guns, which were treated to special and intense bombardments of their own several times a day, an abundance of gas being used against them.
— from The History of the 51st (Highland) Division 1914-1918 by F. W. (Frederick William) Bewsher

truss of straw to avoid detection and

He gave me the guns done up in a truss of straw to avoid detection, and with this clumsy parcel slung across the mare’s back I trotted home.
— from Kilgorman: A Story of Ireland in 1798 by Talbot Baines Reed

traverse on screws they are drawn along

As the arms that carry the points traverse on screws, they are drawn along as the cylinders rotate, so as to press on fresh parts of the message and of the paper at each revolution.
— from Great Facts A Popular History and Description of the Most Remarkable Inventions During the Present Century by Frederick C. (Frederick Collier) Bakewell

taken off six times a day and

"Give 'em a saucer of milk with the chill taken off, six times a day, and break a little bread into it at supper time.
— from The Dogs of Boytown by Walter A. (Walter Alden) Dyer

they occur several times a day and

These o-yooks are merely festal occasions, though they occur several times a day, and may happen at any hour of the day or night when the natives are assembled in villages and have plenty of food on hand.
— from Schwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records by William H. (William Henry) Gilder

talking of such things as drink and

'Barnaby, is this a time to be talking of such things as drink and singing?'
— from For Faith and Freedom by Walter Besant

the open sky talking and discussing and

Until midnight the partners lay broad awake, rolled in their blankets under the open sky, talking and discussing and making plans.
— from McTeague: A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris

their old significant Thirteen and dropped a

Then, too, people began to realize that in giving up the thirteen stripes they had lost their old significant "Thirteen," and dropped a valuable historical association.
— from The Little Book of the Flag by Eva March Tappan

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