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are gentleman enough not to
Sit down there, before me, d’Artagnan; you are gentleman enough not to listen standing.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

a great evil not to
Another saying of his was that it was a great evil not to be able to bear evil.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

a good excuse not to
He decided, however, that this was a good excuse not to go back to study hall that night, so, comfortably couched up in his room, he munched Nabiscos and finished “The White Company.”
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

a great evil nor to
But we ought not to erase from our memory the two years of her life, but to consider them as a time of pleasure giving us gratification and enjoyment, and not to deem the shortness of the blessing as a great evil, nor to be unthankful for what was given us, because Fortune did not give us a longer tenure as we wished.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

accorded goodness ever new The
my ardent spirit burns, And all the tribute of my heart returns, For boons accorded, goodness ever new, The gifts still dearer, as the giver you.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

a great expense notwithstanding the
My effects I had carted away with a deal of trouble, and a great expense: notwithstanding the ice and snow my removal was completed in a couple of days, and on the fifteenth of December I gave up the keys of the Hermitage, after having paid the wages of the gardener, not being able to pay my rent.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

a golden Euraint n that
their, them Euain, v. to be moving Euddon, n. mites, acarus Euddoni, v. to breed mites Eugi, v. to bawl, to shriek Eulon, n. excrements, dung Euocâu, v. to make guilty Euod, n. worms in sheep’s liver Euog, a. guilty; false Euon, a. bots in horses Euraid, a. golden, of gold Euraidd, a. golden Euraint, n. that is of gold Eurben, n. the gilt head Eurdalaeth, n. golden coronet Eurdorch, n. a wreath of gold Eurdde, a. covered with gold Eurem, n. golden jewel Eurfaen, n. a chrysolite Eurfail, n. a golden goblet Eurfrodiad, n. golden brocade Eurgain, a. of golden brightness Eurgalch, n. gold enamel Eurgrawn, n. collection of gold; a golden treasure Euriad, n. a gilding Eurian, a. of gold, golden Eurlen, n. arras, gold leaf Eurliw, n. a gold colour Eurwedd, a. of golden hue Eurych, n. goldsmith; tinker Eurychaeth, n. goldsmith’s art; tinker’s trade Eurydd, n. a goldfiner Euryll, n. a jewel of gold Euryn, n. a golden trinket Ew, n. that glides; that is sleek or smooth Ewa, n. an uncle Ewach, n. a weakling, a fribble Ewaint, n. young people Ewerddon, n. a green spot of land, Ireland Ewi, v. to listen, to attend Ewiar, a. smooth; clear; sleek Ewig, n. a hind; a deer, a doe Ewin, n. a nail; a talon, a claw Ewinallt, n. a steep cliff Ewinbren, n. a guide, in carpentry Ewinfedd, n. a nail measure Ewingraff, a. sharp-clawed Ewingrwn, a. turned as a nail Ewino, v. to use the nails Ewinog, a. having nails, clawed Ewinor, n. a whitlow Ewinrew, n. nipping frost Ewinwasg, n. an agnail Ewn, a. daring, bold, brave Ewybr, a. quick, nimble, fleet Ewybraidd, a. of swift nature Ewybraw, v. to glance, to dart Ewybredd, n. velocity Ewybren, n. the firmament Ewybriad, n. a glancing Ewydn, a. tuff, clammy, viscous Ewydnaw, v. to grow viscous Ewyll, n. will, action of mind Ewylliad, n. a volition Ewyllio, v. to exert the will Ewyllys, n. will or desire Ewyllysgar, a. willing, desirous Ewyllysgarwch, n. willingness Ewyllysiwr, n. willer, desirer Ewyn, n. foam, spume, froth Ewynedd, n. foaminess Ewyngant, n. a surge Ewyniad, n. a foaming Ewynog, a. foamy, frothy Ewynu, v. to foam, to froth Ewythr, n. an uncle F, Is of a similar sound to the English V; and is used as a mutation of m. and B.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

a great extent necessary to
The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of the actions to which a desire would otherwise lead, and by often causing the inhibited impulses themselves to be unnoticed or quickly forgotten.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

are growing empty now Tûan
'The jungles are growing empty now, Tûan , and many things are changed since the days when I was a boy roaming through the woods of the Plus valley with my father and my two brothers.
— from In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula by Clifford, Hugh Charles, Sir

a girl even now that
What had she," pointing to Joice, "done; she, this innocent woman, scarce more than a girl even now, that thus you should attack and ruin her and seek her life and that of those by whom she was surrounded?"
— from The Land of Bondage: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

and guard every night therefore
More than a fourth part of the soldiers are out on picket and guard every night; therefore the number of men in each tent will be practically about the same as the officers.
— from The March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

any great extent now that
He has the natural love of change that you never knew, and your inherited love for your old home is not [164] really shared by him to any great extent now that he has tried another life.
— from Monica: A Novel, Volume 2 (of 3) by Evelyn Everett-Green

a government established not through
But it was to be binding on the people of a State only by their own separate consent; and if adopted by the people of all the States, it would be a government established, not through the intervention of their legislatures, but by the people at large.
— from History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 2 With Notices of Its Principle Framers by George Ticknor Curtis

a great effort not to
To a man of the preacher's vehement temperament it must have required a great effort not to reply at the moment.
— from Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography by Charles Kingsley

a gentleman enough not to
De Burgh, who had risen from half-recumbent position, and stood leaning against a larger fragment of rock, paused before he replied: "I think that I am a gentleman enough not to be a brute, but I rather believe a woman of the type you describe would not have a blissful existence with me."
— from A Crooked Path: A Novel by Mrs. Alexander


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