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a very earnest request to see

She had a brother and a lover in General Wise's army, and gave us their names, with a very earnest request to see them kindly treated, should they be taken prisoners.
— from The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape by Albert D. (Albert Deane) Richardson

after various encounters rebuilt the settlement

Aguirre was immediately sent thither, and after various encounters rebuilt the settlement on a more advantageous situation.
— from Spanish and Portuguese South America during the Colonial Period; Vol. 1 of 2 by Robert Grant Watson

and violent end remarked the shabby

"The inference is that I, having listened to the ghostly voices, am doomed to a sudden and violent end," remarked the shabby stranger quite gloomily.
— from The House of Whispers by William Le Queux

always very eloquent respecting the splendour

At a certain period of Burgundian excitement Mr. Warrington was always very eloquent respecting the splendour of his family.
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

are very easily reduced to selenium

It is a very characteristic circumstance that selenious and tellurous anhydrides are very easily reduced to selenium and tellurium.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

and vulgar errors respecting the Sabbath

Next, Horæ Sabaticæ; or an attempt to correct certain superstitions and vulgar errors respecting the Sabbath .
— from A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Augustus De Morgan

a virtue easily recommended to statesmen

Economy, however, is a virtue easily recommended to statesmen by any pinch of necessity, and it so chanced that at the very time we have now reached, April 1655, the Protector and his Council, being in money straits, were in a very economical mood (see ante p. 35).
— from The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time by David Masson

and very earnestly requested the same

The blind men rose up presently, and very earnestly requested the same of the Governor.
— from A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 by Knight of Elvas

and Van Emmon returned the same

PART III THE SURVIVOR Provided with a sledge-hammer, a crowbar, and a hydraulic jack, and even with drills and explosives as a last resort, Jackson, Kinney, and Van Emmon returned the same day to the walled-in room in the top of that mystifying mansion.
— from The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life by Homer Eon Flint

all vessels engaged resumed their stations

When the attack had been completed all vessels engaged resumed their stations and waited with quick-firing guns ready in case the monster should rise from the deep to make a dying effort to destroy her pursuers.
— from Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace Was Met and Vanquished, with Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships, Nets, Aircraft, &c. &c., Also Describing the Selection and Training of the Enormous Personnel Used in This New Branch of the Navy by Charles W. (Charles William) Domville-Fife

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