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user often faces
: The data transporters ——————————————— When the online service's host computer is far away, the user often faces the challenges of: 1.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

use of flesh
At present, even under temporary disadvantages, the use of flesh is greater here than anywhere else; it is continued without any interruption of Lents or meagre days; it is sustained and growing even with the increase of our taxes.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

understand once for
“Well, then, understand once for all that I never shall or can be comfortable—or anything but miserable—there, Biddy!—unless I can lead a very different sort of life from the life I lead now.”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

utterances of famous
Just as the sombre story of the Peloponnesian conflict has for a prominent feature the pleas and counterpleas of contending parties, together with a few independent orations, so this Roman History is filled with public utterances of famous men, either singly or in pairs.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

until our friends
I say to thee, priest, contrive some cast of thine art to keep the knaves where they are, until our friends bring up their lances.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

use of full
I have restricted my use of full capitalization to those places where Hobbes used it, except in the chapter headings, which I have fully capitalized, where Hobbes used a mixture of full capitalization and italics.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

use of false
For in a writ couched in very stringent and severe terms issued by the same king in after years decreeing penalties for the improper assumption and use of false arms, specific exception is made in favour of those "who bore Page 591 {591} arms with us at the Battle of Agincourt." Evidently this formed a very extensive kind of augmentation.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

usually of four
parisparis n a game of cards, usually of four players, each dealt five cards.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

unusual orders for
On the taking the Havannah all the stores of that island were emptied into that place, which produced unusual orders for goods, for supplying their own consumption, as well as for further speculations of trade.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

use of fire
Another thing we notice among the Colonies, which had no inconsiderable influence on their growth, was the use of fire-arms among all the people, to defend themselves from hostile Indians.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders by John Lord

up of fractions
This mixing up of fractions makes very serious troubles sometimes."
— from Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale by Ida Glenwood

us or from
They do thereby defend and preserve it from those that would take it from us, or from those that would impose another upon us.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

up only for
I appreciate that—but I'm holding this up only for size.
— from Warren Commission (08 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

upon our feelings
And hence the agreeable, but, at the same time, melancholy, impression which such things make upon our feelings.
— from The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures by Friedrich von Schlegel

under our first
states of the mind lead to certain habitual actions, which are of service, as under our first principle.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

uttering one fearful
And Tharagavverug swung clumsily away, uttering one fearful cry like the sound of a great church bell that had become possessed of a soul that fluttered upward from the tombs at night—an evil soul, giving the bell a voice.
— from The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories by Lord Dunsany


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