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There really is no ground on

There really is no ground on which justly to question the sincerity of declarations like those of Congress and Washington.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

The rule is never get official

The rule is, never get official if you can help it, but when you must, out-official the official who's officialing you."
— from This World Is Taboo by Murray Leinster

The repair is necessarily greater or

c. The repair is necessarily greater or smaller, in proportion to the loss which the vessel has sustained.
— from An Universal Dictionary of the Marine Or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship. Illustrated With Variety of Original Designs of Shipping, in Different Situations; Together With Separate Views of Their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. to Which Is Annexed, a Translation of the French Sea-terms and Phrases, Collected from the Works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c. by William Falconer

to reappear in new groups or

The concentration of motion is followed by a diffusion or dispersion of matter and force, and the disappearance of the several groups of phenomena we have just named; but as matter is indestructible, and as there is always the same quantity of motion and force, they disappear only to reappear in new groups or transformations.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

that rank is no guarantee of

The annals of gaming sufficiently show that rank is no guarantee of a gamester's honesty; and in the case of Lord De Ros versus Cumming, tried before Lord Denman, 10th of February, 1837, it would appear that the rank of the fraudulent gamester screened him for several years, with one party at least, from being denounced.
— from Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards by William Andrew Chatto

that rice is not grown on

The first referred to an old darky who was transplanted from the cotton-fields of "ole Virginny" to the rice-swamps of Carolina, and who did not like the change, but found consolation in the fact that rice is not grown on "the other side of Jordan." "Come listen, all you darkies, come listen to my song, It am about ole Massa, who use me bery wrong.
— from Among the Pines; or, South in Secession Time by James R. (James Roberts) Gilmore

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