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"This end of the room is the auction room," King, indicating nearly half of the long living-room.
— from Marjorie's New Friend by Carolyn Wells
Night itself came—but Flora and Ranald knew it not—and both lay now motionless in one snow-shroud.
— from Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 1 by John Wilson
Ramessu VI., Neb-mâ-Ra Mi-Amon Amon-hir-khopesh-f (Ramessu Meri-Tum, a rival king in Northern Egypt).
— from Patriarchal Palestine by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Before his Majesty came to Madely, he met with an il-favoured encounter at Evelin Mill being about 2. miles from thence; The miller (it seems) was an honest man, but his Majesty and Richard knew it not, and had then in his house some considerable persons of his Majesties army, who took shelter there in their flight from Worcester, and had not been long in the mill, so that the miller was upon his watch, and Richard, unhappily permitting a gate to clap, through which they passed, gave occasion to the miller to come out of the mill and boldly ask who is there ?
— from Boscobel Or, The History of his Sacred Majesties most Miraculous Preservation After the Battle of Worcester, 3. Sept. 1651 by Thomas Blount
We then shall have representations of all the spectrum colors, but there are still the colors between violet and red, known in nature and art as purples, which must be produced by uniting the red and violet disks, thus completing a circuit of colors containing all the pure colors in nature.
— from Elementary Color by Milton Bradley
It consists of monosyllables in which the final and redundant k is not written,—“ Dic gave Jac a kic when Jac gave Dic a knoc on the bac with a thic stic .”
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
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