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They did not linger in the long scarlet colonnades of the temple itself, nor gazing at the dancing for which it is famous.–Sladen.
This undoubtedly caused prices to rise; but did it not also cause all Lancashire to work short time, many mills to close, and a great restriction in the purchases of all our customers for cotton goods?–Times.
...set herself quietly down to the care of her own household, and to assist Benjamin in the concerns of his trade.–Scott.
This correspondent says that not only did the French Government know that Germany recognized the privileges resulting for France from her position in Algeria, but also her general views on the work of reform which it would be the task of the conference to examine.–Times.
Teach them the 'character of God' through the 'Son's Life of Love', that conscience must not be outraged, not because they would be punished if they did, or because they would be handsomely rewarded if they didn't, but simply because they know a thing is right or wrong...–Daily Telegraph.
And any one who permits himself this incongruity is likely to be betrayed into actual blunders.
The popularity of the parlements was surely due to the detestation felt for the absolute Monarchy, and because they seemed to half-informed men to be the champions of...–Times. (Here because they seemed does not really fit the popularity...was, but parlements were popular)
A difference, this, which was not much considered where and when the end of the war was thought to be two or three years off, and that the last blow would be Russia's.–F. Greenwood. (The last clause does not fit the end of the war was thought, but it was thought)
Attila and his armies, he said, came and disappeared in a very mysterious manner, and that nothing could be said with positiveness about them.–Borrow.
Save him accordingly she did: but no sooner is he dismissed, and Faust has made a remark on the multitude of arrows which she is darting forth on all sides, than Lynceus returns.–Carlyle.
The short drives at the beginning of the course of instruction were intended gradually to accustom the novice to the speed, and of giving him in the pauses an opportunity to fix well in his mind the principles of the automobile.–Times.
The predecessors of Sir Antony MacDonnell...were, to use the words of the Prime Minister, 'the aiders, advisers, and suggesters of their official chiefs'.–Times. (Though a chief can have a suggester as well as an adviser, adviser is naturally followed by an objective genitive, but suggester can only be followed by a possessive genitive—except of the suggestion made)