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observed that he exercised rather

The whole was under the control of the Oxonian in the appropriate character of Misrule; and I observed that he exercised rather a mischievous sway with his wand over the smaller personages of the pageant.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

of those his essentiall Rights

Secondly, it is against his duty, to let the people be ignorant, or mis-in-formed of the grounds, and reasons of those his essentiall Rights; because thereby men are easie to be seduced, and drawn to resist him, when the Common-wealth shall require their use and exercise.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

of the hard earned results

Not a few there are in our country, who, while they have no scruples against robbing the laborer of the hard earned results of his patient industry, will be shocked by the extremely indelicate manner of bringing your name before the public.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

of them had ever received

They had consumed the whole night in debating what measures they should take to produce the piece of gold in evidence against him; for they were both extremely zealous in the business, though neither of them were in the least interested in the prosecution; neither of them had ever received any private injury from the fellow, nor had either of them ever been suspected of loving the publick well enough to give them a sermon or a dose of physic for nothing.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

ought to have equal rights

It is the educated, the intelligent, the wealthy, the refined, who ought to have equal rights and not the canaille.”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

on the high embedded rocks

You vapors, I think I have risen with you, moved away to distant continents, and fallen down there, for reasons, I think I have blown with you you winds; You waters I have finger'd every shore with you, I have run through what any river or strait of the globe has run through, I have taken my stand on the bases of peninsulas and on the high embedded rocks, to cry thence: What cities the light or warmth penetrates I penetrate those cities myself, All islands to which birds wing their way I wing my way myself.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

of that he entirely removed

In short, Nightingale proceeded so far on this head, and told his friend so many stories of the lady, which he swore to the truth of, that he entirely removed all esteem for her from the breast of Jones; and his gratitude was lessened in proportion.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

or twice he even raised

At the nicely graduated sound of Magua's voice, however, he betrayed some evidence of consciousness, and once or twice he even raised his head, as if to listen.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

on to his ears replied

"Why, hold on to his ears," replied Tip, after a moment's hesitation.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

of these her eyes rested

On one of these her eyes rested long and mistily.
— from Northern Georgia Sketches by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

of the Homoeopathic Examiner represent

But, in the face of all this, the following remarks are made by Wolff, of Dresden, whose essays, according to the editor of the "Homoeopathic Examiner," "represent the opinions of a large majority of Homoeopathists in Europe."
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

one that he ever revised

The speech which Marshall delivered on that occasion is said to have been the only one that he ever revised for publication.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders by John Lord

of the heart every redeeming

She is not an empty void, she is a yawning chasm open between East and West; a bottomless abyss that has swallowed up every hope of mercy, every aspiration towards personal dignity, towards freedom, towards knowledge, every ennobling desire of the heart, every redeeming whisper of conscience.
— from Notes on Life & Letters by Joseph Conrad

of them had ever reached

I am vindictive enough to have repelled force by force if I could imagine that any of them had ever reached me: but they either shot at rovers, and therefore missed; or their powder was so weak that I might safely stand them at the nearest distance.
— from Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden

of the household employee results

The industrial isolation of the household employee results, as isolation in a trade must always result, in a lack of progress in the methods and products of that trade, and a lack of aspiration and education in the workman.
— from Democracy and Social Ethics by Jane Addams

or that his earlier remedies

That he changes his prescription does not, however, imply that his medical knowledge is imperfect, or that his earlier remedies were ignorantly chosen; the varying condition of the invalid was the cause of the variation
— from Studies in Judaism, First Series by S. (Solomon) Schechter

Oxford than his enthusiastic reception

Nothing could be more honourable to Froude, or to Oxford, than his enthusiastic reception by his old University at the close of his brilliant and laborious career.
— from The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul

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