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• Machinery rusted and timbers rotted while the roof of the Hinds House sagged like a sway-backed horse; so did the beds, so also did "Old Man" Hinds' spirits, and there was a hole in the dining-room floor where the unwary sometimes dropped to their hip-joints But the Hinds House continued to be, as it always had been, the social centre, the news bureau, the scene where large deals were constantly being conceived and promulgated--although they got no further. —  The Man from the Bitter Roots
• Knowledge alone limits their sway, and at least changes the range and form of their dominion. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• The trees sway, and our steps keep time, and our very souls respond." —  Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions
• His childhood and boyhood were that of any other peasant boy born into a family where poverty held grim sway, and toil and hardship never relaxed their chilling grasp His education was of the chance kind--but education anyway depends upon yourself--colleges only supply a few opportunities, and it lies with the student whether he will improve them or not The ignorance of his parents and the squalor of his surroundings acted upon Jean Paul Marat as a spur, and from his fourteenth year the idea of cultivating his mental estate was strong upon him Switzerland has ever been the refuge of the man who dares to think. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
• Since 1814 Verona had been under Austria's sway, and had "treacherously" forgotten her republican traditions 312] {562}[Francesco Can Grande della Scala died in 1329. —  The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry

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