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the rational explanation founded on the

When the robbery was talked of at the Rainbow and elsewhere, in good company, the balance continued to waver between the rational explanation founded on the tinder-box, and the theory of an impenetrable mystery that mocked investigation.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

to refrain entirely from observing them

Fanny, not able to refrain entirely from observing them, had seen enough to be tolerably satisfied.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

this regular external form of the

To this regular external form of the crystal corresponds a definite internal structure which shows itself in their cleavage, their stratified build, their polar axes, etc.
— from The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Haeckel

the really effective friend of the

In accordance with a well-known sociological law, the ignorant or reckless agitator has been the really effective friend of the evils which he has been nominally opposing.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

The remaining European filberts of the

September 21 and 22: The remaining European filberts of the imported plants were picked.
— from Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin by Carl Weschcke

to raise enough food on this

"He simply won't be able to raise enough food on this one planet to feed such numbers.
— from The Machine That Floats by Joe Gibson

the rusting elderly ferries of the

The river is like a slow-moving artery that expresses Goa — the rusting, elderly ferries of the River Navigation Department chug across the gap with a ponderous regularity, and in doing so determine the schedules of legions of Goans who live within a short bus ride of the water — 'aparanta' tends not to respect time-pieces worn on one's wrist.
— from Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various

to rob every folly of the

Everybody who asks for anything gets it, everybody is allowed to waste, everybody is allowed to rob, every folly of the Empress is complied with.
— from Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 by Nassau William Senior

the red earth from out the

The sun had tanned his skin to the colour of the red earth, from out the setting of which a pair of eyes, blue as the summer sky, and heavily fringed with long, misty black lashes, laughed continually.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 07, Issue 38, February, 1894 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

the really extraordinary feature of the

That is the really extraordinary feature of the affair.
— from The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer

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