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and launched upon the Ohio River

[244] From 1812-1817, the following steam boats were built and launched upon the Ohio River.
— from The Ohio River Trade, 1788-1830 by Hazel Yearsley Shaw

again leaving us to our reflections

And the Mexicans passed out again, leaving us to our reflections.
— from The Rifle Rangers by Mayne Reid

and looking under the overhanging roots

Having satisfied himself that there was no one in sight, he sprung into the bed of the stream, and looking under the overhanging roots of a beech where he had set one of his traps, discovered a large mink caught by one of his hind feet.
— from Julian Mortimer: A Brave Boy's Struggle for Home and Fortune by Harry Castlemon

and living under their own responsible

The gipsies fought bravely against the Turks under Kara Georg, and are now for the most part settled, although politically separated from the rest of the community, and living under their own responsible head; but, as in other countries, they prefer horse dealing and smith's work to other trades.
— from Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. by A. A. (Andrew Archibald) Paton

And leads us to our room

Unto that Inn within that land Of silence and of gloom, Whose ghastly landlord takes our hand And leads us to our room.
— from Weeds by the Wall: Verses by Madison Julius Cawein

away leaving us to our reflections

He bade us goeden dag , or farewell, cracked his long whip, and drove away, leaving us to our reflections.
— from Six Months at the Cape by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

always live under the old rafters

"'Tis cruel, as I once said to dear papa, that we cannot always live under the old rafters we loved so well as children."
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

and look up the old recipes

Away with your alum, salves and powders, and look up the old recipes for hair-restoring.
— from What's What in America by Eugene V. (Eugene Valentine) Brewster

and lay upon the only road

Many have wondered that Pueblo, which had the advantage of first settlement, had long been a rendezvous of trappers and frontier traders, and lay upon the only road to the then so-called Pike's Peak mines, that viâ the Arkansas Cañon—that this outpost, situated thus at the very gateway of the Far West, should have remained comparatively unimportant, while Denver grew with such astonishing rapidity.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various

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