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factions Lacorne and the

Freemasonry was thus divided into warring factions: Lacorne and the crowd of low-class supporters who had followed him into the lodges founded a Grand Lodge of their own (Grande Loge Lacorne), and in 1756 the original Freemasons again attempted to make Craft Masonry the national Masonry of France by deleting the word "Anglaise" from the appellation of Grand Lodge, and renaming it "Grand Loge Nationale de France."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Fogg learned all this

Mr. Fogg learned all this in consulting his Bradshaw, which gave him the daily movements of the trans-Atlantic steamers.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

farther licences and the

When the public good is so great and so evident as to justify the action, the commendable use of this licence causes us naturally to attribute to the parliament a right of using farther licences; and the antient bounds of the laws being once transgressed with approbation, we are not apt to be so strict in confining ourselves precisely within their limits.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

first longing after the

The very first longing after the Paradise of Amita produces a flower in the Celestial Lake, and this becomes daily larger and more glorious, as the self-improvement of the person whom it represents advances; in the contrary case, it loses in glory and fades away.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

fraternal love and their

The home life of the Filipino is too altogether a model of freedom from discord, pervaded as it is by parental, filial, and fraternal love, and their patriotism is too universal and genuine, to give the “bloody welter” bugaboo any standing in court.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

from law and those

The desires of love and tyranny are the farthest from law, and those of the king are nearest to it.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

for love and tenderness

The long, cruel battle with misery and hunger had hardened and embittered him, but it had not changed her—she had been the same hungry soul to the end, stretching out her arms to him, pleading with him, begging him for love and tenderness.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

following long as tu

Some grammarians would include under Synizesis only cases in which a short vowel is subordinated to a following long; as tu͡o .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

follow like a tantony

The favourite or smallest pig in the litter.—To follow like a tantony pig, i.e. St. Anthony's pig; to follow close at one's heels.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

found Los Angeles the

The massacre.—Trouble soon ensued, and in July, 1781, while Rivera y Moncada was on his way to found Los Angeles, the Yumas, led by Palma, massacred Father Garcés, his three companions, Rivera and his men, and most of the settlers.
— from The Colonization of North America, 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

forty letters all the

She related to me in turn, in some forty letters, all the history of her life.
— from Figures of Several Centuries by Arthur Symons

for life and the

The boy was sent to prison for life and the woman received a sentence of forty-nine years.
— from The Twin Hells A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and Missouri Penitentiaries by John N. (John Newton) Reynolds

fairy lamps and the

"The flowers, and the fairy lamps, and the programmes, and those extra boxes of crackers, and the chocolates, and the ring for the trifle.
— from For the Sake of the School by Angela Brazil

full length and then

Bear down—sink it in full length, and then twist it."
— from Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

first lieutenant and the

At this moment an officer, who was afterwards recognized to be Mr. M'Donald, the first lieutenant, and the then commanding officer, called out that they had surrendered.
— from The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by J. F. (Joseph Florimond) Loubat

four letters are to

If there are only the two letters, this will be simple, but if three or four letters are to be put together, it will depend on what the third or fourth letter is whether this is possible or not.
— from Monograms & Ciphers by Carlton Studio

Ferguson looked a trifle

Ferguson looked a trifle non-plussed.
— from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln

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