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alleged racial characteristics have a

Of course all these alleged racial characteristics have a positive as well as a negative significance.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

a river called Helga and

Now the kings sailed eastward along the coast, and brought up in a river called Helga, and remained there some time.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Another register calls him Airés

53 Another register calls him Airés, and says that he was afterward chief gunner in the “Victoria.”— Navarrete .
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

a red cow have and

As a Jewish writer has expressed it: ... the oddest rabbinical conceits are elaborated through many volumes with the finest dialectic, and the most absurd questions are discussed with the highest efforts of intellectual power; for example, how many white hairs may a red cow have, and yet remain a red cow; what sort of scabs require this or that purification; whether a louse or a flea may be killed on the Sabbath--the first being allowed, while the second is a deadly sin; whether the slaughter of an animal ought to be executed at the neck or the tail; whether the high priest put on his shirt or his hose first; whether the Jabam , that is, the brother of a man who died childless, being required by law to marry the widow, is relieved from his obligation if he falls off a roof and sticks in the mire.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

a Russian court headdress and

A celebrated beauty wore for her second wedding in her own house, a dress of gold brocade, with a Russian court headdress and a veil of yellow tulle down the back.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

and receive certain honours as

Even at present the descendants of that race are called kings, and receive certain honours, as the chief seat at the public games, a purple robe as a symbol of royal descent, a staff instead of a sceptre, and the superintendence of the sacrifices in honour of the Eleusinian Ceres.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

and Repose could have any

Madam , 'If my Vigilance and ten thousand Wishes for your Welfare and Repose could have any force, you last Night slept in Security, and had every good Angel in your Attendance.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Alencon Reignier compass him about

Orleans the Bastard, Charles, Burgundy, Alencon, Reignier, compass him about, And Talbot perisheth by your default.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

a Roman Catholic How absurd

My only difficulty is about taking orders; and she thinks I am going to be a Roman Catholic. How absurd!
— from Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert by John Henry Newman

a round conical hill about

The learned traveller Kohl speaks of these erections, in his work on Ireland, as follows:— “The Moate of Lisserdowling is a round conical hill, about forty feet high, and almost five hundred feet in circumference.
— from The Storehouses of the King; Or, the Pyramids of Egypt What They Are and Who Built Them by Jane (Trill) van Gelder

as Ruth confronted him at

He stood still as Ruth confronted him at the head of the stairs, and met her lovely, miserable eyes with a look of sympathy.
— from Other Things Being Equal by Emma Wolf

and rising colour had already

You needn't feel shy about going there," for Clodagh's manner and rising colour had already shown that shy she was.
— from Fairies Afield by Mrs. Molesworth

All right call him and

"All right, call him, and I bet he won't follow you," said the clown.
— from Billy Whiskers: The Autobiography of a Goat by Frances Trego Montgomery

and regularly continue he approved

So then we spoke to the king, and he said it was but little, but he wished particularly nobody should subscribe what would really distress them ; and that, if that was all we could conveniently do, and regularly continue, he approved it more than to have us make a greater exertion, and either bring ourselves into difficulties or not go on.
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

A roue cries he and

"A roue!" cries he, "and a brute!
— from Richard Carvel — Volume 03 by Winston Churchill

AND R CHAMBERS H2 anchor

W. AND R. CHAMBERS H2 anchor CHAPTER VII.
— from Northumberland Yesterday and To-day by Jean F. (Jean Finlay) Terry

a Red Cross hospital at

Madame de Broqueville, the wife of the Prime Minister, turned her house into a Red Cross hospital at the outbreak of hostilities; it is a beautiful big place.
— from A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium by Hugh Gibson

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