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a spot should escape their

They had decided to make the tour of the island on foot, before exploring the interior; so that not a spot should escape their investigations.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

and so saw every thing

It was entirely owing to one of these misfortunes, or I had pass'd clean by the stables of Chantilly— —But the postillion first affirming, and then persisting in it to my face, that there was no mark upon the two sous piece, I open'd my eyes to be convinced—and seeing the mark upon it as plain as my nose—I leap'd out of the chaise in a passion, and so saw every thing at Chantilly in spite.—I tried it but for three posts and a half, but believe 'tis the best principle in the world to travel speedily upon; for as few objects look very inviting in that mood—you have little or nothing to stop you; by which means it was that I passed through St. Dennis, without turning my head so much as on one side towards the Abby— —Richness of their treasury!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

altered since she entered the

Mrs. Bloomfield would say to her spouse. ‘Don’t you observe, my dear, how she is altered since she entered the schoolroom?
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

any stream strong enough to

As some wooded mountain-spur that stretches across a plain will turn water and check the flow even of a great river, nor is there any stream strong enough to break through it—even so did the two Ajaxes face the Trojans and stem the tide of their fighting though they kept pouring on towards them and foremost among them all was Aeneas son of Anchises with valiant Hector.
— from The Iliad by Homer

and shall simply exhibit the

I cannot go into these details, and shall simply exhibit the principal combinations that may result from forming the divisions in two or three brigades and the corps in two or three divisions.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

also saw something else that

He also saw something else that was strange.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

again said she endeavouring to

there again!' said she, endeavouring to raise herself, while her starting eyes seemed to follow some object round the room—'Come from the grave!
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

and she stamped each time

and she stamped each time she said it.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

and so sure enough Tom

And his Aunt Polly she said Tom was right about old Miss Watson setting Jim free in her will; and so, sure enough, Tom Sawyer had gone and took all that trouble and bother to set a free nigger free!
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

any secret society except the

The Carnarvonshire police are peeved because they are not allowed to belong to any secret society except the Freemasons, and consequently are debarred from membership of the Royal Ante-diluvian Order of Buffaloes.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-28 by Various

and some slight experience taught

e had borne unbounded provocation and most unmerited adversity, sometimes beguiled them into a hope that her troubles from within were over for ever; but a little reflection, and some slight experience, taught them that this was unreasonable.
— from Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau

a scarcely superior enemy to

"That a vast army which had given ample proof of military worth in the two great battles of Gravelotte, and which moreover possessed the support of the most important stronghold in France, should have permitted a scarcely superior enemy to hem it in and to detain it for weeks, making no earnest attempt to escape, and finally, at the conqueror's bidding, should have laid down its arms without striking a blow, would before the event," says an English military authority, "have seemed impossible.
— from France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer

A strange silence encompassed the

A strange silence encompassed the world.
— from The Hill of Venus by Nathan Gallizier

acram suo semine et trahit

pro dimidia hida et arat et varectat et seminat acram suo semine et trahit foenum et bladum.'
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

a small stream entered the

We landed and drew up our canoes on a point where a small stream entered the river.
— from Sketches in Crude-oil Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe by John J. (John James) McLaurin

and scramble sometimes even to

Dick had often to wade, often to climb and scramble, sometimes even to leap from one foothold to another.
— from The Silent Places by Stewart Edward White

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