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friends everywhere to consider how they

I would like to call upon his friends everywhere to consider how they have come in so short a time to view this matter in a way so entirely different from their former belief; to ask whether they are not being borne along by an irresistible current, whither they know not?
— from Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 by John G. (John George) Nicolay

forcefully enough to compel him to

And the fact that Austen Vane had seemingly not spoken in wrath, although forcefully enough to compel him to listen, had increased Mr. Flint's anger.
— from Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 3 by Winston Churchill

frank enough to confess however that

I was frank enough to confess, however, that privately I held no hope of change.
— from The Black Lion Inn by Alfred Henry Lewis

for Eppy to carry home to

Mrs. Brookes, having prepared a heavy basket of good things for Eppy to carry home to her grandmother, and made it the heavier for the sake of punishing her with the weight of it, set out with her, saying to herself, "The jaud wants a wheen harder wark nor I hae hauden till her han', an' doobtless it's preparin' for her!"
— from Donal Grant by George MacDonald

from experiencing the conjugal happiness that

There was scarcely a word in this letter referring to her husband, except those three crossed-out words; but [34] it overflowed with praises and love of her beautiful child, although it was evident that the young wife was far from experiencing the conjugal happiness that had permeated her previous missives.
— from The Masked Bridal by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.

fully expressed than Christ himself the

[pg 099] The nature and constitution of this virtue no one ever more fully expressed than Christ himself, the true tree of life, whose goodly and salutary fruits we ought to eat, and to convert into our own substance and nature.
— from True Christianity A Treatise on Sincere Repentence, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc. by Johann Arndt

firmness enough to carry him through

He was cautious—sometimes a little too much so, or more so than I would be, but still with firmness enough to carry him through all emergencies.
— from The Expressman and the Detective by Allan Pinkerton

fearful enemy the collier has to

The explosion of inflammable gas is the most fearful enemy the collier has to encounter.
— from The Subterranean World by G. (Georg) Hartwig

for example the Court held that

In Lamont v. Postmaster General, 381 U.S. 301 (1965), for example, the Court held that a federal statute requiring the Postmaster General to halt delivery of communist propaganda unless the addressee affirmatively requested the material violated the First Amendment: We rest on the narrow ground that the addressee in order to receive his mail must request in writing that it be delivered.
— from Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling by United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

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