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same old druggies and

That night it was a relief -- same old druggies and hookers and dealers and drunks.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

strength of despotism and

As he had to allow that the realisation of this ideal could not be effected through the strength of despotism, and as he was unable to foresee any rewards for my exertions, by the time we came to the champagne he thawed to such a degree of affable good-nature as to wish me every success.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

sentence of death and

It is popularly told of a famous freebooter, that he composed the tune known by the name of Macpherson's Rant while under sentence of death, and played it at the gallows-tree.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

state of debt and

The ordinary course of exchange, therefore, being an indication of the ordinary state of debt and credit between two places, must likewise be an indication of the ordinary course of their exports and imports, as these necessarily regulate that state.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

schism of Damasus and

85 The schism of Damasus and Ursinus was extinguished by the exile of the latter; and the wisdom of the praefect Praetextatus 86 restored the tranquillity of the city.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

save one drowning and

For the baptizers’ standing-place supplied; And one of which, not many years agone, I broke to save one drowning; and I would 20 Have this for seal to undeceive men known.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

schism of Damasus and

The schism of Damasus and Ursinus was extinguished by the exile of the latter; and the wisdom of the præfect Prætextatus restored the tranquillity of the city.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

syllable of disobedient and

In iv. 2. 18 ("Of disobedient opposition ") only two regular accents occur, but we have a metrical accent on the first syllable of disobedient , and on the first and the last syllables of opposition , which word has metrically five syllables.
— from Shakespeare's Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

sorrow or delight A

one tyrant all- Absorbing aim fills up the interspace, One vast unbroken chain of thought, kept up Through a career apparently adverse To its existence: life, death, light and shadow, The shows of the world, were bare receptacles Or indices of truth to be wrung thence, Not ministers of sorrow or delight: A wondrous natural robe in which she went.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

sort of delicacy about

'If so, there is a large-leaved, coarse sort of delicacy about it,' said Judy.
— from The Relentless City by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

son of Dōn and

He takes the place of Gwydion son of Dōn, and the other deities of his circle fall more or less accurately into the places of others of the earlier circle.
— from Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston

shed of down and

It was in a stage never yet seen or collected, for the wings were already quite clean of down and feathered as in the adult, also a line down the breast was shed of down and part of the head.
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

sense of defeat and

He had a numbing sense of defeat, and worse than that, of inadequacy.
— from Little Stories of Married Life by Mary Stewart Cutting

spot of dampness and

[Pg 413] A lamp burned on the wall, illuminating a dark spot of dampness and pictures from journals.
— from Mother by Maksim Gorky

sequence of demonstrations as

This wisdom is not a sequence of demonstrations, as the whole of it forms a unity; it is not a plurality reduced to unity, but a unity which is resolved into a plurality.
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 2 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus

soul of dialectic as

Reciprocity was the soul of dialectic as practised by Socrates, and the dialectic of love demands a reciprocity of passion which can only exist between the sexes.
— from The Greek Philosophers, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Alfred William Benn

sight of Dicky and

Just then he caught sight of Dicky and me standing on the edge of the crowd.
— from Happy-go-lucky by Ian Hay

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