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of countless thoughts and varied emotions

But I did not think of that: a confusion of countless thoughts and varied emotions crowded upon me while I gazed abstractedly on the lovely face of nature.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

of Castri they are very extensive

Its ruins are to be seen in the vicinity of the modern village of Castri: they are very extensive.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

one comes to a verdict expressing

The most learned historians read the facts of their career so differently, that one comes to a verdict expressing deep and criminal guilt, and another acquits them with honour.
— from A Candid History of the Jesuits by Joseph McCabe

of conscience to a valuable extent

[55] So ended the second period in the history of this church, as the dawn of its new day began—a day in which the once-persecuted congregation could say: "We enjoy the rights of conscience to a valuable extent, worshipping in our families, preaching three times every Lord's Day, baptizing frequently from ten to thirty at a time, in the Savannah, and
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various

of civilization that are very easily

There are certain habits of civilization that are very easily dropped.
— from A Spring Walk in Provence by Archibald Marshall

or clown then a vagabond etc

But it is no doubt the Persian galcha , a peasant or clown, then a vagabond, etc., whence galchagi , rudeness.
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

of conforming to a very exact

I have no intention, in this journal, of conforming to a very exact order of dates; and whenever there recurs to my memory a fact or an anecdote which seems to me deserving of mention, I shall jot it down, at whatever point of my narrative I may have then reached, fearing lest, should I defer it to its proper epoch, it might be forgotten.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

of coming to a violent end

Equally great was the probability of coming to a violent end among the cliffs and chasms of this savage mountain waste.
— from The Ruby Sword: A Romance of Baluchistan by Bertram Mitford

of circulation to a vast extent

The laws now in being give no power to seize Counterfeit Halfpence; either in the hands of the Dealers, who keep a kind of open market at their -204- own houses every morning to supply Jew Boys, who cry bad Shillings, or in those of many others in various trades, who become the channels of circulation to a vast extent without risk or inconvenience.
— from A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Patrick Colquhoun

of conjugating the accursed verb ennuyer

I must try the hartshorn of your company; and a session of Parliament would suit me well,—any thing to cure me of conjugating the accursed verb " ennuyer ."
— from The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

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