"Instead" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... may be unwilling that his reign should stand in the way of the welfare of his countrymen. See how many circumstances, and how detrimental, follow that line of conduct: the loss of works formed with so great labour; the threatening devastation of our frontiers; an Etruscan excited instead of a Veientian war. These, tribunes, are your measures, pretty much the same, in truth, as if a person should render a disease tedious, and perhaps incurable, for the sake of present meat or drink, in a patient ...
— The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 • Titus Livius
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... long delay, though in that next room a very human bond was about to be broken. Possibly if Vincent had done exactly what his impulses prompted, he would have taken Miss Gregory in his arms and kissed her. But instead he said quietly, for his manner ...
— The Happiest Time of Their Lives • Alice Duer Miller
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... referred to, are very fine, thread-like cells, one twenty-fifth to one-tenth inch long, with a wall commonly so thick that scarcely any empty internal space or lumen remains (see Figs. 8, e, and 7, B). If, instead of oak, a piece of poplar or basswood (see Fig. 9) had been used in this study, the structure would have been found to be quite different. The same kinds of cell-elements, vessels, etc., are, to be sure, present, but their combination ...
— Seasoning of Wood • Joseph B. Wagner
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... Should slats be used instead of frames for holding the cushions, then the following list of material should be substituted for the frame ...
— Mission Furniture - How to Make It, Part 2 • H. H. Windsor
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... Ellen, she was in a tumult of wonder and delight, but when she looked at the doll in her corner there came again that vague sense of injury, and she felt again as if in some way she were being robbed instead of being ...
— The Portion of Labor • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
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