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yet enough enlightened to

Happy men, who were not yet enough enlightened to lose their peace of mind and to be conscious of the unhappy mainsprings and causes of our misery, love of power ... envy ... illnesses and all the results of imagination.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

yet entered either the

The young man had not yet entered either the military or civil service, as he had only just returned from abroad where he had been educated, and this was his first appearance in society.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

your eager eyes that

I read in your eager eyes that this does not disturb you greatly; Sophy’s confession and your own wishes suggest a simple plan for avoiding the snow and escaping the journey.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

y exclamé en todos

20 Yo me levanté desencajado, me puse de rodillas, y exclamé en todos los tonos de voz que pude inventar: —¡Bendita sea tu alma, rey de los hombres!...
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

yard every evening to

Stepan the coachman, Mihailo the house-porter, Alyoshka the coachman’s grandson, who had come up from the village to stay with his grandfather, and Nikandr, an old man of seventy, who used to come into the yard every evening to sell salt herrings, were sitting round a lantern in the big coach-house, playing “kings.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

you ever expect to

“If you ever expect to be forgiven, or even suffered within my doors, come to me this instant.” LETTER III.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

you expect ever to

Verdurin, "and I warn you that if you expect ever to see another like it you may as well abandon the idea at once.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Yojo earnestly enjoined that

But to my surprise and no small concern, Queequeg now gave me to understand, that he had been diligently consulting Yojo—the name of his black little god—and Yojo had told him two or three times over, and strongly insisted upon it everyway, that instead of our going together among the whaling-fleet in harbor, and in concert selecting our craft; instead of this, I say, Yojo earnestly enjoined that the selection of the ship should rest wholly with me, inasmuch as Yojo purposed befriending us; and, in order to do so, had already pitched upon a vessel, which, if left to myself, I, Ishmael, should infallibly light upon, for all the world as though it had turned out by chance; and in that vessel I must immediately ship myself, for the present irrespective of Queequeg.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Y esto es tan

Y esto es tan cierto, que el mismo Caballuco, una de las figuras más caracterizadas de la rebeldía histórica de Orbajosa, decía claramente a todo 10 el mundo que él
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

y e English to

But againe when they considered, how much wrong they had received from the Pequents, and what an oppertunitie they now had by y e help of y e English to right them selves, revenge was so sweete unto them, as it prevailed above all y e rest; so as they resolved to joyne with y e English against them, & did.
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

yet equally exposed to

They must be so placed also as not to be too near each other, and yet equally exposed to the inductive influence of surrounding objects; and these objects, again, should not be disturbed in their position during an experiment, or else variations of induction upon the external ball B of the apparatus may occur, and so errors be introduced into the results.
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

Your Excellency examined the

EXCELLENCY: Monsignor Carretti, upon his return from Paris, hastened to inform us with what spirit of moderation Your Excellency examined the demands regarding the Catholic Missions which we presented to the Peace Conference, and with what zeal Your Excellency subsequently supported these demands.
— from Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him by Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick) Tumulty

you ever expects to

I do not believe in the government of the lash, if any one of you ever expects to whip your children again, I want you to have a photograph taken of yourself when you are in the act, with your face red with vulgar anger, and the face of the little child, with eyes swimming in tears and the little chin dimpled with fear, like a piece of water struck by a sudden cold wind.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

yet every effort to

This rent money is literally blood money in thousands of instances, and yet every effort to improve things is bitterly fought.
— from Aliens or Americans? by Howard B. (Howard Benjamin) Grose

you ever experienced the

Have you ever experienced the sorry realization of how one petulant or peevish member of a household can destroy the happiness of a breakfast or dinner 78 Everything in this world depends upon will.—
— from The Girl Wanted: A Book of Friendly Thoughts by Nixon Waterman

years elapse ere thou

May thy feet never cross the threshold of the House of Misery, and may many years elapse ere thou art translated from thy frail abode to the Mansion of Eternity.
— from Zoraida: A Romance of the Harem and the Great Sahara by William Le Queux

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