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and roll up nearer and

He would then relate how, after the epigastric sensation had begun, he tried to see if he could make out something abnormal; whereupon a little fiery wheel would appear and roll up nearer and nearer, so as to almost touch his eyelids.
— from Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 by Elmer Ernest Southard

a raid upon Nithsdale and

Acting upon this principle, they made a raid upon Nithsdale, and committed sundry depredations on Lord Sanquhar, the lairds of Drumlanrig, Closeburn, and Lagg, and killed eighteen persons who had “followed their own goods.”
— from Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland

at Rome under Nero A

The day of Pentecost, according to the usual reckoning, was in A.D. 33, and St. Peter suffered martyrdom at Rome under Nero, A.D. 66, or at the earliest 65.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

and Romans under Nero and

Grotius applied it to the wars between the Jews and Romans under Nero and Vespasian; Dr. Hammond supposed that the defeat of the Jewish leaders in those wars was particularly symbolized; Mr. Brightman referred these symbols to the persecution under Diocletian; Mr. Mede, Dr. Cressner, Dr. More, Mr. Whiston, Mr. Jurien, Mr. Daubuz, Mr. Lowman, Bishop Newton, Mr. Elliott, and others, refer it to the defeat of the Pagan powers, and the final suppression of those powers as opposed to Christianity; Vitringa regarded it as foreshadowing the overthrow of the antichristian powers of the western Roman empire; Cocceius explains it of the wars of the Emperor Frederick against the German princes in the sixteenth century; Dean Woodhouse, of the day of vengeance at the end of the world; Mr. Cunninghame, of the same period as the seventh trumpet, commencing with the French revolution, and to be consummated by the visible advent of the Son of God; Professor Stuart, of the destruction of Jerusalem; and Mr. Lord, of a series of events, part of which are fulfilled, three of them corresponding with the first three vials—the first expressive of the revolution of France, the second of a despotism extending through several years, and the third of the overthrow of that violent dynasty, at the fall of Bonaparte, in 1815.
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes

a requirement unsatisfied not a

It was so easy to please her, and such a pleasure to do it, that I went on and said— 'Ah, Lasca, you are a fortunate girl!—this beautiful house, this dainty jewel, that rich treasure, all this elegant snow, and sumptuous icebergs and limitless sterility, and public bears and walruses, and noble freedom and largeness and everybody's admiring eyes upon you, and everybody's homage and respect at your command without the asking; young, rich, beautiful, sought, courted, envied, not a requirement unsatisfied, not a desire ungratified, nothing to wish for that you cannot have—it is immeasurable good-fortune!
— from The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

and retreated upon Neustadt and

The main body of the Austrians was driven from the field, and retreated upon Neustadt and [37] Neuschloss.
— from The Campaign of Königgrätz A Study of the Austro-Prussian Conflict in the Light of the American Civil War by Arthur L. (Arthur Lockwood) Wagner

Auerstadt rose up now an

From among the crowds of wounded and dead lying on the battle-field of Auerstadt, rose up now an officer, severely injured in the head and arm.
— from Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

area remained under normal administration

At first, the area was controlled by a "minister" of the prince, an official of the state; later the area remained under normal administration and the feudal prince kept only an empty title; the tax income of a certain number of families of an area was assigned to him and transmitted to him by normal administrative channels.
— from A History of China by Wolfram Eberhard

a ragged unkempt neglected appearance

The trunk is subject to disease, and a row of old soft maples nearly always presents a ragged, unkempt, neglected appearance.
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson

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