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a small plain extending round a

The chain of the Graba Balkan, which stretching in a direction from east to west ends on the Adriatic in the narrow tongue of land at Dyrrhachium, sends off—fourteen miles to the east of Dyrrhachium—in a south-westerly direction a lateral branch which likewise turns in the form of a crescent towards the sea, and the main chain and lateral branch of the mountains enclose between themselves a small plain extending round a cliff on the seashore.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

a sealed package expressed regret at

The stage had pulled in, temporary repairs having been made, and the driver who handed Jack a sealed package expressed regret at having to bring him back.
— from Jack of the Pony Express; Or, The Young Rider of the Mountain Trails by Frank V. Webster

and South possessed equal resources and

Had the North and South possessed equal resources and the same number of troops, the latter could not have been conquered any more than the North could have been defeated had the situation been reversed.
— from A New History of the United States The greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year by Charles Morris

as she perhaps expected roundly assured

Here again the Marquis, instead of paying her a compliment, as she perhaps expected, roundly assured her that for one beauty in France, hundreds might be counted in England, where gentlemen were, therefore, not so easily satisfied; and that a woman regarded by them only as an ordinary person would pass for a first-rate beauty among French beaux, on account of the great scarcity of them here.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

and St Petersburg every race and

Swarthy Caucasians, Kirghiz Tartars, Jews from Odessa, thieves from Moscow and St. Petersburg, every race and age, from beardless boys to decrepit old men, were represented.
— from From Pekin to Calais by Land by Harry De Windt

aquam sepera paulatim et redibit at

[ Regyra cum pistillo, 368 et congrega materiam ut potes, et aquam sepera paulatim ] et redibit at statum.
— from Gunpowder and Ammunition, Their Origin and Progress by H. W. L. (Henry William Lovett) Hime

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