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a little cabin on the

Accordingly, they embarked on board the ship and were given a little cabin on the poop, where, that the fact might not belie his words, he lay with her in one very small bed.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

a las calladas on the

calladita f d of a las calladas on the quiet, under cover.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

a long catalogue of those

Should I here produce a long catalogue of those, of all sexes and conditions and sects, even in the most happy ages, who have either with great constancy looked death in the face, or voluntarily sought it, and sought it not only to avoid the evils of this life, but some purely to avoid the satiety of living, and others for the hope of a better condition elsewhere, I should never have done.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

and last chapter of treatise

v. , and last chapter of treatise [Book ii.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

a little court on the

"The bright warm sun shone on a little court, on the first warm day of spring.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

and lame Couthon of the

And Danton rises and speaks; and Collot d'Herbois rises, and Curate Gregoire, and lame Couthon of the Mountain rises; and in rapid Meliboean stanzas, only a few lines each, they propose motions not a few: That the corner-stone of our new Constitution is Sovereignty of the People; that our Constitution shall be accepted by the People or be null; further that the People ought to be avenged, and have right Judges; that the Imposts must continue till new order; that Landed and other Property be sacred forever; finally that 'Royalty from this day is abolished in France:'—Decreed all, before four o'clock strike, with acclamation of the world!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

a lamentable complaint of their

But John, and twelve of the principal men with him, went to Florus, to Sebaste, and made a lamentable complaint of their case, and besought him to help them; and with all possible decency, put him in mind of the eight talents they had given him; but he had the men seized upon, and put in prison, and accused them for carrying the books of the law out of Cesarea. 6.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

a lighted cigar on the

Dropping a lighted cigar on the ground, as if by accident, I took the opportunity, in stooping to pick it up, of igniting privately the piece of slow match, whose end, as I said before, protruded a very little beyond the lower rim of one of the smaller casks.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

and Latin conquests of the

The duchy of Rome appears to have included the Tuscan, Sabine, and Latin conquests, of the first four hundred years of the city, and the limits may be distinctly traced along the coast, from Civita Vecchia to Terracina, and with the course of the Tyber from Ameria and Narni to the port of Ostia.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

A louse crawled over the

A louse crawled over the nape of his neck and, putting his thumb and forefinger deftly beneath his loose collar, he caught it.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

a large camp of the

Meanwhile, a force of cavalry under Hodson moved round outside the city walls, and found a large camp of the enemy near the Delhi Gate.
— from A Narrative of the Siege of Delhi With an Account of the Mutiny at Ferozepore in 1857 by Charles John Griffiths

a large cottage on the

He had a large cottage on the outskirts of Dutton.
— from Danny Again Further Adventures of "Danny the Detective" by Vera C. (Vera Charlesworth) Barclay

at Litchfield Connecticut on the

BEECHER, HENRY WARD, a celebrated author and divine, born at Litchfield, Connecticut, on the 24th of January, 1813.
— from The Canadian Elocutionist Designed for the Use of Colleges, Schools and Self Instruction, Together with a Copious Selection in Prose and Poetry of Pieces Adapted for Reading, Recitation and Practice by Anna K. (Anna Kelsey) Howard

a large Committee of the

While we were discoursing over our publique misfortunes, I am called in to a large Committee of the Council: present the Duke of Albemarle, Anglesey, Arlington, Ashly, Carteret, Duncomb, Coventry, Ingram, Clifford, Lauderdale, Morrice, Manchester, Craven, Carlisle, Bridgewater.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 54: June 1667 by Samuel Pepys

and low carriages or to

Lord Curryfin assured her that he felt too confident in his power over horses, and in the safety of his new invention, to admit the possibility of danger: but that it was a very small sacrifice to her to restrict himself to tame horses and low carriages, or to abstinence from all horses and carriages, if she desired it.
— from Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock

a little clap of thunder

You could as aisy ha' missed a little clap of thunder, if a one was be chance comin' tatterin' along between the furzes, wid the head of it bobbin' up now and agin, and makin' all the noise it could conthrive.
— from Strangers at Lisconnel by Jane Barlow

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