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... up, from the wellspring of memory, as we looked upon her in her last repose, and glanced retrospectively upon her useful and exemplary life. Again we heard the rich instruction that had fallen from those pale lips, and a new-purpose sprung up in the heart—a new desire to be more entirely consecrated to God, that our path might be the path ...

— Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland • Abigail Stanley Hanna

... be removed from the journal. (Because there are no back issues, there are no lost issues either. Once a subscriber logs onto the journal he or she has access not only to the currently published materials, but retrospectively to everything that has been published in it. Thus the table of contents grows bigger. The date of publication serves to distinguish between currently published ...

— LOC WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC TEXTS • James Daly

... America; most likely suggested by similar information. "But whatever," he adds, "may be thought of this, it is certain that the four stars are here symbolical of the four cardinal virtues;" and he refers to canto xxxi, where those virtues are retrospectively associated with these stars. The symbol, however, is not, necessary. Dante was a very curious inquirer on all subjects, and evidently acquainted with ships and seamen as well as geography; and his imagination would eagerly have seized a magnificent ...

— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 • Leigh Hunt

... Buck chuckled retrospectively. Though the pause was unbroken by any questions, he saw that he had the complete and undivided ...

— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames

... and testimony imperfectly authenticated, as well as the absence of all legal forms from their proceedings, and their numbers, among whom the responsibility of giving due attention to the case is divided, add to the peril. The power of legislating retrospectively has far too wide a scope; the constitutional inhibition of ex post facto laws having been construed to apply to criminal or penal cases merely, restraining the legislature from making that an offence which was not ...

— An Essay on Professional Ethics - Second Edition • George Sharswood

... grinned retrospectively. "Must say he had a fine career while he was out. First thing he did was to break up a children's party at Page's. Then he went to Watermelon Alley. Whoo! He stampeded the whole outfit. Men, women, and children running pell-mell, ...

— The Monster and Other Stories - The Monster; The Blue Hotel; His New Mittens • Stephen Crane

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