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If you would only be quiet for a few hours, I am sure your head would be sufficiently well for you to go with me; and you know I never do enjoy an evening so much as when you accompany me, dear mamma," she continued, softening the violence with which she had at first spoken into one of the most persuasive eloquence; and humbling her pride and controlling the contempt with which she ever looked on her weak but far more principled mother, she knelt on a low stool by her side, and caressingly kissed Lady Helen's hand.
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 1 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar
The accessory value of this species of knowledge, is now duly estimated in Europe, as affording the most obvious means of estimating, with the greatest approximation to truth, the comparative antiquity of formations, and of strata, as well as of identifying those with each other which are in their nature similar.
— from American Journal of Science, Vol. 1. by Various
In the bed lieth the woman whose enemy, though she knoweth it not, doth encircle her.
— from The Coming of the King by Bernie Babcock
Kēchē is, no doubt, equivalent to Khāsī , the vowel-change being the same as in Rēchō for Rājā .
— from The Mikirs by Edward Stack
"What is the reason they don't know it now?" demanded Elam.
— from Elam Storm, the Wolfer; Or, The Lost Nugget by Harry Castlemon
You have known it, no doubt, ever since you left Richmond.
— from The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Annie Heloise Abel
The rule of analogy led Karaism into new difficulties, especially as regards the marriage of certain blood-relations.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 3 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz
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