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A13 c1 compile or make a catalog
[A13; c1] compile or make a catalog.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

around chatting cheerfully of men and crimes
They sat around chatting cheerfully of men and crimes, of great coups planned and frustrated, of strange deeds committed and undetected.
— from The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Edgar Wallace

A Cooking Class of Mothers and Children
64 Meeting the Needs of the Neighbourhood 70 A Remnant of the Past 76 A Type of the Present 88 A Corner in a Workingman's Home 94 A Spiritual Bulwark 128 Where the People Share 134 A Corner in an Old Section 152 Opposite a Corner in an Old Section 154 The Woman's Home Improvement Club at the Settlement 168 The Kindergarten of the College Settlement 178 Making a Selection 184 At the Settlement—A Stormy Day 188 Yard Day at the Settlement 196 The Children's Hour at the College Settlement 200 Mutual Interests 206 The Forest of the Tenements 212 The Children's Playground 218 Library Day at the College Settlement 224 A Street on the East Side 236 A Cooking Class of Mothers and Children 244 A Meeting of Neighbours 250 The Reading-Room at the Settlement 254 After School at the College Settlement 258 The Morning Airing of an East Side Heiress 264 A Bit of Old Greenwich 274 A Little Father 280 A Corner in Old Greenwich 286 Taking their Turn in the Yard at the Settlement 294
— from The Leaven in a Great City by Lillian William Betts

A COOKING CLASS OF MOTHERS AND CHILDREN
Yer can go to work to-day, even if it be a bit late, and yer can go next week to the country." A COOKING CLASS OF MOTHERS AND CHILDREN.
— from The Leaven in a Great City by Lillian William Betts

a curious climax of misunderstanding a culmination
They found in it a curious climax of misunderstanding, a culmination of all deceptive things.
— from Flames by Robert Hichens

a crafty campaign of misrepresentation and calumny
They may be said to typify the propagandists who, having settled in Holland from the early days of the war, have carried on a crafty campaign of misrepresentation and calumny not alone against the Allies, but against the country which has hitherto preserved neutrality and sacrificed so much in works of benevolence in regard to Belgian and other refugees, and the British airmen and seamen which the accidents and tides of war have brought to or thrown upon her shores.
— from Kultur in Cartoons With accompanying notes by well-known English writers by Louis Raemaekers

a certain class of men are capable
A woman may cherish the truest, kindliest friendship for a man whom it would be impossible for her to love; nay, in whom she would totally lose her interest if he once presented himself in the aspect of a lover; and we believe a certain class of men are capable of experiencing the same pure and kin-like devotion for certain women.
— from Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie

and certain conditions of matter always correspond
But it is true that certain states of mind and certain conditions of matter always correspond.
— from Up the Hill and Over by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

a certain class of men are called
I am pleading for the tolerance of what, by a certain class of men, are called impracticable business defects in youthful character, which in reality are the vital blood by which the world is kept morally alive.
— from The Young Man and the World by Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah) Beveridge


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