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Without attempting to conceal her avowed

Without attempting to conceal her avowed preference of Wilfred of Ivanhoe, she declared that, were that favoured knight out of question, she would rather take refuge in a convent, than share a throne with Athelstane, whom, having always despised, she now began, on account of the trouble she received on his account, thoroughly to detest.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

who as the corporal had assured

When that door was opened and the prisoners, crowding against one another like a flock of sheep, squeezed into the exit, Pierre pushed his way forward and approached that very captain who as the corporal had assured him was ready to do anything for him.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

we are to consider him and

We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguishing excellence of each: it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Wight at the Coffee House and

By and by came my father to my house, and so he and I went and found out my uncle Wight at the Coffee House, and there did agree with him to meet the next week with my uncle Thomas and read over the Captain’s will before them both for their satisfaction.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

were anxious to capture him alive

If, on the other hand, he should be accompanied by a considerable number, the business would be one of some difficulty to those on whose good faith he relied; especially as they were anxious to capture him alive, that being what would most gratify Antiochus.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

wrong and the child has a

I’ve done wrong and the child has a cruel fate before it.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

who affect to cheat him apparently

The people who affect to cheat him, apparently cut the rim from a modern hat, and place the scull-cap in his hands; and then begins the almost finest piece of acting that I ever witnessed.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

while above the clouds hung ashen

The radiance faded and a shadowy velvet veiled the mountains, a humid depth of gloom behind which lurked all the mysteries of life and death, while above, the clouds hung ashen and dull; lights twinkled and flashed along the shore, boats glided in the twilight, and the little puffing of motors droned away.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

was able to carry himself and

There seemed to be just one place up to which he was able to carry himself, and there he stuck, every time.
— from The Saddle Boys at Circle Ranch; Or, In at the Grand Round-Up by Carson, James, Captain

where are the Custom House and

After the Tower, we walked along Thames Street where are the Custom House and Billingsgate Market and the Steelyard and the Monument.
— from The Orange Girl by Walter Besant

with a thick cord his appearance

With crucifix in hand, feet bare, his head uncovered, his body covered with a long frock and girded with a thick cord, his appearance was an awesome spectacle.
— from Bleeding Armenia: Its history and horrors under the curse of Islam by Augustus Warner Williams

was about to cast himself amid

You look as he did thirty years ago, when he was about to cast himself amid the dangers of war; when, unfortunately, he embraced me for the last time."
— from International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various

was able to cook him a

The house was clean, and the good woman was able to cook him a meal not drowned in oil nor rank with garlic.
— from Perpetua. A Tale of Nimes in A.D. 213 by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

were apt to consider him as

He had skirted the whole coast of the Solway, besides making various trips into the interior, not shunning, on such occasions, to expose himself to the laugh of the scorner, nay, even to serious personal risk, by frequenting the haunts of smugglers, horse-jockeys, and other irregular persons, who looked on his intrusion with jealous eyes, and were apt to consider him as an exciseman in the disguise of a Quaker.
— from Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century by Walter Scott

we are to consider him as

How far we are to consider him as founding the monarchy, or the monarchy as raising and illustrating him, will appear more fully in the course of this narrative.
— from Cyrus the Great Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

Winters at the County Hospital and

"I think I'll call up Doc Winters, at the County Hospital, and see if all his squirrel-fodder is present and accounted for."
— from Police Operation by H. Beam Piper

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