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as it happened Cautley did champion

Now as it happened, Cautley did champion certain theories which Miss Cursiter, when she met them, denounced as physiologist's fads.
— from Superseded by May Sinclair

and I have chess draughts cards

"But I have provided for the contingency, my friends," replied Michel; "you have only to speak, and I have chess, draughts, cards, and dominoes at your disposal; nothing is wanting but a billiard-table."
— from From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Jules Verne

arteries I have clearly distinguished circular

There is no doubt that in the vertebral and internal carotid it is thinner in proportion than in equal trunks situated in the muscular interstices; but by examining attentively these arteries, I have clearly distinguished circular fibres in them.
— from General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Xavier Bichat

Azurara in his Chronica de Conde

Gomes Eannes de Azurara, in his Chronica de Conde D. Pedro de Menezes (c. 1450), states that Amadis de Gaula was written by Vasco de Lobeira in the time of king Ferdinand of Portugal who died in 1383: as Vasco de Lobeira was knighted in 1385, it would follow that he wrote the elaborate romance in his earliest youth.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

and its heavy Catholic dome cowering

The Cathedral Mosque rises above the outer walls and the roofs of the town more like a citadel than a temple, with its high walls denticulated with Arabian embrazures, and its heavy Catholic dome cowering on the Oriental platform.
— from Wanderings in Spain by Théophile Gautier

asked in her calm dull childish

she asked in her calm, dull childish voice.
— from Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

and including Hawthorne Curtis Dana Channing

In West Roxbury is the Martin Luther Orphan Home, which now occupies the noted "Brook Farm," where 50 a group of cultivated people, led by George Ripley, and including Hawthorne, Curtis, Dana, Channing, Thoreau, Emerson, and Margaret Fuller, made their famous attempt to found a socialistic community in 1841, but found that it would not work.
— from America, Volume 5 (of 6) by Joel Cook

and its heels coming disagreeably close

At length it made a plunge forward, and its heels coming disagreeably close to the man’s head as it landed on the other side, he rose, with a good hearty oath.
— from What I Saw in Kaffir-Land by Stephen Lakeman

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