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thrown them upon the

His mask and cloak lay, where he had thrown them, upon the floor.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

they took up the

Come away—out of the public road—down the steps yonder!' As she uttered these words, and indicated, with her hand, the direction in which she wished them to proceed, the countryman looked round, and roughly asking what they took up the whole pavement for, passed on.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Together they understand them

But if by All Together, they understand them as one Person (which person the Soveraign bears,) then the power of all together, is the same with the Soveraigns power; and so again the speech is absurd; which absurdity they see well enough, when the Soveraignty is in an Assembly of the people; but in a Monarch they see it not; and yet the power of Soveraignty is the same in whomsoever it be placed.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

that they used the

For instance, that the law was not strictly observed there is seen from the fact recorded by Pigafetta that they used the intoxicant arrack.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

that turns upon the

Another likened himself to a bear that retreats with his face to the enemy, who dare not assail him; and the third assumed the character of a desperate stag, that turns upon the hounds and keeps them at bay.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

that trenches upon temerity

"I will prevent it," said the gentleman; and going over to Don Quixote, who was insisting upon the keeper's opening the cages, he said to him, "Sir knight, knights-errant should attempt adventures which encourage the hope of a successful issue, not those which entirely withhold it; for valour that trenches upon temerity savours rather of madness than of courage; moreover, these lions do not come to oppose you, nor do they dream of such a thing; they are going as presents to his Majesty, and it will not be right to stop them or delay their journey."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

to tempt us to

The Will to Truth, which is to tempt us to many a hazardous enterprise, the famous Truthfulness of which all philosophers have hitherto spoken with respect, what questions has this Will to Truth not laid before us!
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

to take up their

Everybody dawdled 111 that morning, and it was noon before the girls found energy enough even to take up their worsted work.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

two took up their

The two took up their quarters at the inn in Gatehouse.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

them threw up their

We got their measure on the Somme, and we found that when their guns failed to protect them, many of them threw up their hands.
— from England and the War by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

things that used to

I’m getting on to a lot of things that used to seem all shut up to me.
— from Making the Nine by Albertus T. (Albertus True) Dudley

They therefore urge the

They therefore urge the Government of the United Kingdom to give a lead to the world by declaring its readiness, in consultation with the Dominion Governments, to co-operate with the Governments of the United and neutral nations in finding an immediate refuge in territories within the British Empire as well as elsewhere for all persons threatened with massacre who can escape from Axis lands, or for those who have already escaped to neighbouring neutral countries and can make room for other refugees to take their place."
— from The Grey Book A collection of protests against anti-semitism and the persecution of Jews issued by non-Roman Catholic churches and church leaders during Hitlers rule by Johan M. Snoek

those that urge the

The former theory may not contradict many of those scriptures that speak of Divine efficiency in the work of grace upon the heart, but it is utterly incompatible with those that urge the sinner to duty.—The latter theory corresponds well with the urgent injunctions to duty, so abundant in the Scriptures, but is wholly irreconcilable with those that speak of Divine efficiency.
— from Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk

threw towards us the

Coming forward with assumed carelessness, he threw towards us the formal reply of his examiners .—
— from A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall

through this underbrush to

Well, I will push through this underbrush to the right.
— from A Boy's Ride by Gulielma Zollinger

to talking until the

She was very thankful to her Aunt Adelaide for addressing a question to her papa just at that moment, thus taking his attention from her, and then adroitly setting them all to talking until the little girl had had time to recover her composure, at least in a measure.
— from Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley

to the undercurrents the

Beyond, on all sides, rose small white hills of drifted ice, making a little arctic ocean, with its own strange solitude, its majestic distances, its titanic noises; for the fields of ice were moving in obedience to the undercurrents, the impact from distant northerly winds.
— from The Web of Life by Robert Herrick

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