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up no store of food these
As wasps lay up no store of food, these exertions are the task of every day during the summer, fresh broods of grubs constantly succeeding to those which have become pupæ or perfect insects; and in autumn, when the colony is augmented to 20 or 30,000, and the grubs in proportion, the scene of bustle which it presents may be readily conceived.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 1 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

under no slight obligations for the
To several of these Philip himself was under no slight obligations for the aid they had afforded him in the late war,—on the fields of Gravelines and St. Quentin, and in the negotiation of the treaty which closed his hostilities with France.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

us now start outward from this
Let us now start outward from this vast mass.
— from Science and the Infinite; or, Through a Window in the Blank Wall by Sydney T. (Sydney Turner) Klein

us not separate ourselves from this
Let us not separate ourselves from this fellowship of Christ; let us not be secluded from this mind of Christ.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Philippians by Robert Rainy


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