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wanting and in the other matters of

Having a superabundance of work, he was in need of assistance, and he desired to take back with him a companion and also a young man who might help him in design, in which he was wanting, and in the other matters of art.
— from Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi by Giorgio Vasari

well and if the old man of

When he came they bowed down to him and presented their gifts, and he asked them if they were well, and if the old man of whom they spoke was still alive, and they replied that he was.
— from Child's Story of the Bible by Mary A. (Mary Artemisia) Lathbury

way as in those other missions of

It is conducted by missionaries of the Moravian Church, and its work among the children is done in the same way as in those other missions of which you have been told more fully.
— from Children of Wild Australia by Herbert Pitts

would ask if the other members of

I would ask, if the other members of the Union are not also to be consulted?
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

worthy and in the overwhelming majority of

In a word, the man who is most worthy to be chosen as a father of the future is always the most worthy and, in the overwhelming majority of cases, is also the most individually suitable, to be chosen as a partner and companion for life.
— from Woman and Womanhood: A Search for Principles by C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby

well as in those of millions of

At present I cannot understand and I do not know—though I am informed and infused with a burning and reverent desire to understand and to know—why Evil should be allowed to triumph, as in my own case, as well as in those of millions of others, it does.
— from Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren

well as in that of most other

The systematic hypocrisy imputed to her may seem an invention of her enemies or of historians not thoroughly informed; she herself declares truthfulness a quality indispensable for a prince; but in her administration, as well as in that of most other rulers, reasonings appear which rather conceal the truth than express it; in each of her words, and in every step she took, we perceive a calculation of what is for her advantage; she displays striking foresight and even a natural subtlety.
— from A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke

widower and I thought of my old

I was now a grandpap and a widower, and I thought of my old
— from The Southern Soldier Boy: A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy by James Carson Elliott

were all in twenty or more of

They were all in, twenty or more of them, and as Mrs. McDougal stood in the centre of the room, counting with extended forefinger, Miss Gibbie took her seat, and from her beaded bag took out surreptitiously a small bottle of salts and hid it in her handkerchief.
— from Miss Gibbie Gault by Kate Langley Bosher

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