21 Feb After heavy mortar and artillery barrage, NVA company probes 37th ARVN Ranger lines but withdraws after distant fire fight.
— from The Battle for Khe Sanh by Moyers S. Shore
After examining the stream, both above and below, no crossing place could be found, but just at the point where it ran out of the valley, the space between the high banks was very narrow.
— from Popular Adventure Tales by Mayne Reid
Meanwhile their estimates of the future, although based upon an intimate knowledge of the past and aided by naturally clear powers of insight, must be hypothetical and conditional.
— from Twentieth Century Inventions: A Forecast by George Sutherland
Yet in some of his addresses Abdul Baha names certain principles as new in the Bahai faith, such as universal peace, the unity of humanity, arbitration, compulsory education of both sexes, the harmony of science and religion, the evil of prejudice and fanaticism, need of investigating the truth, etc.
— from Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul Baha by Samuel Graham Wilson
The son of the Vicar of Edmonton, Mr. Dawson Warren, and a boy named Carysfoot Proby, whose father had two livings as well as his own and his wife's fortune, were the chief scapegoats.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 1 Miscellaneous Prose by Charles Lamb
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