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which is natural so them and that

Proud men are most shocked with contempt, should they do not most readily assent to it; but it is because of the opposition betwixt the passion, which is natural so them, and that received by sympathy.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Writers in newspapers seemed to assume that

Writers in newspapers seemed to assume that all girls were new girls, and Lilian knew the awful falsity of the assumption.
— from Lilian by Arnold Bennett

which if not so tremendous as those

But, with all that, his true salvation was not possible without stoop after stoop of his own; stoop after stoop which, if not so tremendous as those of Christ, were yet tremendous enough, and too tremendous, for him.
— from Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) by Alexander Whyte

was in no sense through accident that

When Virginia was present the conversation seemed always deftly guided from the subject of her father's immediate future, and she was not long in discerning that it was in no sense through accident that this was true.
— from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs

what is not strictly true and thus

It often leads to the utterance of what is not strictly true, and thus insensibly diminishes the regard for truth.
— from How to Be a Man A Book for Boys, Containing Useful Hints on the Formation of Character by Harvey Newcomb

which is not susceptible to amalgamation the

As the tin ore is an oxide which is not susceptible to amalgamation, the gold can be readily separated by means of mercury.
— from Getting Gold: A Gold-Mining Handbook for Practical Men by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Francis) Johnson

which I never saw till after the

I began the duty imposed on me on the morning of the 23d, totally in the dark as to what was expected of Wilson, though it seems, from some correspondence between Generals Grant and Meade, which I never saw till after the war, that Grant thought Wilson could rely on Hampton's absence from his field of operations throughout the expedition.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete by Philip Henry Sheridan

Was it not simpler to adopt the

Was it not simpler to adopt the agrarian law straightway?
— from System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Misery by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon

Was it not strange that amongst the

I may here ask, Was it not strange that amongst the hundreds of people who saw this drowning youth, not one was found to render him the least assistance?
— from The Hero of the Humber; Or, The History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe by Henry Woodcock

Was it not strange they asked that

Was it not strange, they asked, that this great prince should have gone in state to the theatre of war, and then in a week have gone in the same state back again?
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

where is no substantive Trench asserts that

Landor puts the question, "Is the Dean ignorant that everywhere is one word, and where is no substantive?" Trench asserts that caprice is from capra , "a goat," whereupon his critic says, "No,—then it would be capr a cious.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

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