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use nay even superior to

As a system of writing, that of the pure Japanese, which consists of phonetic letters, is in its quality far superior to the other one, which is in our common use, nay, even superior to the proper Chinese system itself.
— from A Fantasy of Far Japan; Or, Summer Dream Dialogues by Kencho Suematsu

up now either she thought

"There's no time to make things up now, either," she thought.
— from The Youngest Girl in the Fifth: A School Story by Angela Brazil

up no encounter since the

“No battle of modern times,” he says in summing up, “no encounter since the days before gunpowder, when the beaten side could be cut down ad libitum by the victors and quarter was seldom given, has witnessed such awful slaughter....
— from The Story of Napoleon by Harold Wheeler

Upper Nile expressly says that

For instance, the able Austrian missionary Morlang, who tried for many years without the slightest success to civilize the ape-like negro tribes on the Upper Nile, expressly says: “that any mission to such savages is absolutely useless.
— from The History of Creation, Vol. 2 (of 2) Or the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes by Ernst Haeckel

upon Neil Elthorne seeing the

Then, during one of his visits home, Aunt Anne insisted upon Neil Elthorne seeing the woman.
— from Nurse Elisia by George Manville Fenn

understand nor even see the

5 How could we reply, how could our thoughts and glances penetrate the infinite and the invisible, we who do not understand nor even see the thing by which we see and which is the source of all our thoughts?
— from Our Eternity by Maurice Maeterlinck

until now ever since the

The sky had not been clear all day, but we had managed to see until now, ever since the fight began, but with a black pall hanging all around us and thousands of enemies marking us for death the outlook was absolutely terrifying.
— from The Boy Fortune Hunters in the South Seas by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

upward not exceeding seven to

2. All such apprentices, not exceeding eight to every master or owner of any fishing vessel of fifty tons or upward; not exceeding seven to every vessel or boat of thirty-five tons, and under fifty; not exceeding six to every vessel of thirty tons, or under thirty-five; and not exceeding four to every boat under thirty tons burden, during the time of their apprenticeship, and till the age of twenty years; they continuing, for the time, in the business of fishing only.
— from The White Slaves of England by John C. Cobden

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