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and unquestioning that one by one they

She found two or three ardent friends at school and was very happy with them for a time, but she was terribly exacting, and demanded an allegiance so intense and unquestioning that one by one they drifted away into other groups and left her.
— from Smith College Stories Ten Stories by Josephine Dodge Daskam by Josephine Daskam Bacon

and under the overhanging branches of trees

On and on they went over the smooth surface of the lake, passing at times close to the shore and under the overhanging branches of trees, which at some points were very thick.
— from Dave Porter At Bear Camp; Or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake by Edward Stratemeyer

animal under the opposite bank of the

On another occasion I saw a water-vole running away from some larger animal under the opposite bank of the river.
— from A Cotswold Village; Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire by J. Arthur (Joseph Arthur) Gibbs

Already upon the opposite brink of the

Already upon the opposite brink of the chasm!
— from Popular Adventure Tales by Mayne Reid

accretion upon the original belief of the

Gore, Incarnation, 62— “ The divinity, incarnation, resurrection of Christ were not an accretion upon the original belief of the apostles and their first disciples, for these are all recognized as uncontroverted matters of faith in the four great epistles of Paul, written at a date when the greater part of those who had seen the risen Christ were still alive. ”
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

and up the opposite bank on to

So Ram Deen drove her through the stream and up the opposite bank on to the road.
— from The Taming of the Jungle by C. W. (Charles William) Doyle

and upon the old banks of the

The Wintcrmoots, who had purchased land toward the head of the valley, and upon the old banks of the Susquehanna, ** at a place where bubbled forth a large and living spring of pure water, erected a strong fortification known as Wintermoot's Fort.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

appeared upon the opposite bank of the

Early one morning a body of Indians, enveloped each in a bearskin, appeared upon the opposite bank of the Ohio.
— from Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 1 by Edmund Flagg

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