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back along the Lower Elbe to

If they advanced to Erfurt, he could move to Gera, cut their line of retreat, and press them back along the Lower Elbe to the North Sea.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

be able to leave everything to

I shall soon be able to leave everything to him, and have more time to call my own than I've had for these last twenty years.”
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

boys and twenty large elephant tusks

85 These both together brought every other year, and continue to bring even to my own time, two quart measures 86 of unmelted gold and two hundred blocks of ebony and five Ethiopian boys and twenty large elephant tusks.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

but all their land except that

Afterwards tribute was not imposed upon the Lesbians; but all their land, except that of the Methymnians, was divided into three thousand allotments, three hundred of which were reserved as sacred for the gods, and the rest assigned by lot to Athenian shareholders, who were sent out to the island.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

bride and twenty lovely epithets that

And then I threw myself at his feet, blessed God, and blessed him for his goodness; and he overwhelmed me with kindness, calling me his sweet bride, and twenty lovely epithets, that swell my grateful heart beyond the power of utterance.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

by actual though limited experience that

I believe not only from grounds of reason, but from having in great measure assured myself of the fact by actual though limited experience, that, to a youth led from his first boyhood to investigate the meaning of every word and the reason of its choice and position, logic presents itself as an old acquaintance under new names.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

bloom away Tis little enough they

And once they bear the bloom away 'Tis little enough they leave.
— from A Shropshire Lad by A. E. (Alfred Edward) Housman

but at the last extremity the

The banderillas de fuego , however, are never used but at the last extremity; the fight is considered, as it were, disgraced when it is necessary to have recourse to them; but if the alcade is too long before waving his handkerchief as a sign that he allows them to be employed, the public create such a horrible disturbance that he is obliged to yield.
— from Wanderings in Spain by Théophile Gautier

balls at Tinto less exciting to

This conviction made the balls at Tinto less exciting to the feminine community generally as time went on; but still there is never any telling what caprice may sway a sultan's choice.
— from The Ladies Lindores, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

but about the larger end they

Over most of the surface these markings are fine, faint, and sparsely distributed, but about the larger end they become coarser, thicker, and deeper colored, forming a well-defined ring or wreath.”
— from Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers, Part One and Part Two by Arthur Cleveland Bent

began at the lake edge the

Without it they could do nothing, but, having located their bark supply, they left the trees and began at the lake edge the upper framework of their canoe, consisting of four strips of cedar, two for either side of the boat, every one of the four having a length of about fifteen feet.
— from The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

bed and the leisurely ease that

These two loves—the undue love of the bushel and the corn that is in it, and the undue love of the bed and the leisurely ease that you may enjoy there—are large factors in preventing Christian men from fulfilling God's purpose in their salvation.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren

but at the lower end the

Left the camp at 5.55 a.m. and steered nearly south for six hours, and then encamped on the bank of the Victoria River, at the end of a fine deep pool seventy yards wide, but at the lower end the water was contracted into a shallow rapid ten yards wide.
— from Journals of Australian Explorations by Francis Thomas Gregory

buries all the land excepting that

The great land area of Greenland, with an area of six or seven hundred thousand square miles, is a highland capped over the greater part of its area with a snow field which completely buries all the land excepting that near the margins.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 by Various

behind a tree listened eagerly to

Scarcely had the young girl seated herself, when two men began to creep up silently and cautiously towards the little group, and concealing themselves behind a tree, listened eagerly to the conversation.
— from Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Conrad von Bolanden

be able to live even though

But he hoped to save enough to pay every debt and still be able to live, even though in a modest way.
— from The Right Knock A Story by Helen Van-Anderson

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