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that will leak through

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Teacher would like to

or, "Teacher would like to eat some of Helen's candy," emphasizing the 's. She very soon perceived that the same idea could be expressed in a great many ways.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

this were left to

It was a quiet quarter, after all, in spite of its splendour and its history; and the fact gave one an idea of the riches Paris had to draw on, since such scenes as this were left to the few and the indifferent.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

time was like the

He said I was a capricious witch, and that he would rather sing another time; but I averred that no time was like the present.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Taylor William L Terhune

William H. Taft Edward K. Taylor Graham Romeyn Taylor Judge Harry L. Taylor William L. Terhune Seth Sprague Terry John E. Thayer Rev. James I. Vance Dr. Henry Van Dyke Adj.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

two which look toward

The wall of the city is high and of a changeable colour, like unto the rainbow, in which are four gates, though Homer speak but of two: for there are two which look toward the fields of sloth, the one made of iron, the other of potter's clay, through which those dreams have passage that represent fearful, bloody, and cruel matters: the other two behold the haven and the sea, of which the one is made of horn, the other of ivory, which we went in at.
— from Lucian's True History by of Samosata Lucian

They were like two

They were like two serpents crawling from the cavern of the night.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

tears When lo transported

The shrill cry pierced through Ráma's ears And his sad eyes o'erflowed with tears, When lo, transported through the sky
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

then would link The

enus in the forests then would link The lovers' bodies; for the woman yielded Either from mutual flame, or from the man's Impetuous fury and insatiate lust, Or from a bribe—as acorn-nuts, choice pears, Or the wild berries of the arbute-tree.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

thought were likely to

Even the invisible powers, he thought, were likely to be soothed by a bland parenthesis here and there—coming from a man of property, who might have been as impious as others.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

There we leave the

There, we leave the gentler humanities of life to woman; here, we are compelled to imitate her characteristics, as well as our sterner nature will permit.
— from Journal of an African Cruiser Comprising Sketches of the Canaries, the Cape De Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, and Other Places of Interest on the West Coast of Africa by Horatio Bridge

the woods laid the

I went into the woods, laid the net and the snares, stretched myself out on the ground, whistled low and thought.
— from The Confession: A Novel by Maksim Gorky

there were less than

In the whole of Canada there were less than 4500 regular troops, and it was known that Napoleon's activity in Europe would prevent the British Government from sending out reinforcements.
— from Noble Deeds of the World's Heroines by Henry Charles Moore

They would love them

“They would love them,” drawled Julia, imitating the tone of voice used by the strangers.
— from The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong; Or, Peg of Tamarack Hills by Lilian Garis

theories which like the

The Great Man of the party refrains from his large theories, which, like the circles made by the [174] stone thrown into the water, begin somewhere and end nowhere.
— from Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

that was likely to

Mr. Irwine, who was involuntarily uttering his own thoughts rather than addressing Bartle Massey in the last sentence, had in his mind the possibility that the spirit of vengeance to-wards Arthur, which was the form Adam's anguish was continually taking, might make him seek an encounter that was likely to end more fatally than the one in the Grove.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

the writer looks through

I have just been reading a "sweet" article, headed "Coming Home After the Summer Vacation," in which the writer looks through his "glory spectacles" upon the delights of plenty of elbow-room in the dear old house; good fare, and one's little personal hourly comforts generally.
— from Caper-Sauce: A Volume of Chit-Chat about Men, Women, and Things. by Fanny Fern

there was little to

Every day and night there were watchers, straining their eyes westwards in case the Armada should attempt to coast along England to force a landing anywhere, and southwards in case they should pass nearer the French coast on their way to join the Prince of Parma; but there was little to be seen over that wide ring of blue sea except single vessels, or now and again half-a-dozen in company, appearing and fading again on some unknown quest.
— from By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson

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