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...iveller addressed himself to his fate or destiny, whom, as we learn by the precedents, it is the custom of heroes to taunt in a very bitter and ironic... ...ey had agreed upon, respecting Becky Morgan, whose decease was no longer a precedent of uncomfortable application, and would be no business of theirs ... ...p when he was required might be to establish an inconvenient and dangerous precedent, he immediately started off again, rattled at a fast trot to the ...

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...ng before the appearance of their performances; and, resolving to follow a precedent which was so well suited to my present circumstances, I immediate... ...on, which should be rapid in this part; but that doth not weigh much, many precedents occurring for such an interruption: the second and much the grea... ...TER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER V V V V V Containing justice business; curious precedents of depositions, and other matters necessary to be perused by all...

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...ccentric, and it’s not for me, yet a while, to measure people by my narrow precedents. I never saw a gaming table in my life before, and supposed that...

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...ce its course of action. By its cumulative action in shaping the usage and precedents of any such body, this shrinking from an imputation of unseemly ... ...e learned class in all primitive communities are great sticklers for form, precedent, gradations of rank, ritual, ceremonial vestments, and learned pa...

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... along. Jump in.” “Ah, Finlinson, you are very well, eh? That was most un- precedented calamity last night, eh? My royal palace, too, it leaks like th... ...to our passen- gers, demand some form of guarantee. It must not serve as a precedent. All this might have been saved if you had only referred us to yo... ... We see that there is no likelihood of this action of yours establishing a precedent, which was the only thing we were afraid of. Now that you underst...

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...ish. All these wines, except the sparkling, had their date of birth in the precedent century. ‘They went like water.’ Questioned anxiously by Dr. Glos...

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...Twilight You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone The Dead Emperor As the Greek's Signal Flame The Dismantled Ship Now Precedent Songs, Farewell An Evening Lull Old Age's Lambent Peaks After the Supper and Talk SECOND ANNEX: GOOD-BYE MY FANCY Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht! Lingering Last Drops Good-Bye My Fancy On, On the Same, Ye ...

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...." Nolan had never been in such a predicament. No president had. There was no precedent to follow. He felt lost, and hoped to God he had chosen the ...

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...of timber—but this time going outward—as our capital emerges from this un- precedented inundation of loyalty. The most elaborately con- ceived, the mo... ... money or stuff. It is manifest that the next naval war will be beyond all precedent a war of mechanisms, giv- ing such scope for invention and scient... ...s and display themselves wise, capable and heroic— beyond any aristocratic precedent. The alternative, if it is an alternative, is resignation—to the ... ...nd perhaps con- vey my conviction that our present Labour troubles are un- precedented, and that they mean the end of an epoch. The supply of good-tem... ... of practical scientific work; and it was natural he should turn to it for precedents in sociological research. His mind was invaded by the idea of cl... ...assion, their very silences shape a Utopia. Why should they not follow the precedent of Aristotle, and accept Utopias as material? There used to be in... ...moments of reflection will suffice to demonstrate that. This is beyond any precedent an age of change, change in the appliances of life, in the averag... ... and aimless expenditure, of a class irresponsible and wasteful beyond all precedent. One gets a Zolaesque picture of that aspect in Mr. Upton Sinclai... ...xpenditure; in the end they mean possibilities of de- struction beyond all precedent. Such things as the _Zeppe- lin_ and the _Ville de Paris_ are onl...

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... coal. But of Mr. Brooke I make a further remark perhaps less warranted by precedent—namely, that if he had foreknown his speech, it might not have ma... ...e pound. He had now achieved this, and from all who did not think it a bad precedent, his honorable exertions had won him due esteem; but in no part o... ...bon would have trained me for, where the doing would be all laid down by a precedent too rigid for me to react upon. I don’t care for prestige or high... ...n, thrusting a hand into his side-pocket, with an easy air, “if I wanted a precedent, you know—but we never want a precedent for the right thing— but ... ...ling Thy garden rescued here and there from the wilderness.” Metaphors and precedents were not wanting; peculiar spiri- tual experiences were not want...