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conversation and dress but also in the

He never failed to appear the chief personage at all public diversions and private assemblies, not only in conversation and dress, but also in the article of dancing, in which he outstripped all his fellows, as far as in every other genteel accomplishment.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

comfortable and delicious bed as in those

It was, indeed, a most comfortable and delicious bed, as in those days, or rather nights, I often proved.
— from At the Point of the Sword by Herbert Hayens

cold and distant bow as I told

Now, although the distance from the door to the table at which I sat was not many paces, yet it was quite sufficient to chill down all my respectable relative’s ardor before he approached: his rapid pace became gradually a shuffle, a slide, and finally a dead stop; his extended arms were reduced to one hand, barely advanced beyond his waistcoat; his voice, losing the easy confidence of its former tone, got husky and dry, and broke into a cough; and all these changes were indebted to the mere fact of my reception of him consisting in a cold and distant bow, as I told the servant to place a chair and leave the room.
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever

confused and doubling back as if the

they moved; always following the tracks; tracks confused and doubling back as if the hind horse lagged; with blood drip and shuffling dragging hoofs; always keeping the dust whirl of the fore horizon in view; on and on, but speaking scarcely at all!
— from The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. Laut

created a diversion by appearing in the

At the end of the day's business I created a diversion by appearing in the Scheftels board-room, flourishing a handful of $1,000 bills before the newspaper men.
— from My Adventures with Your Money by George Graham Rice

courage and dashing bravery as in the

It had shown itself as full of fiery courage and dashing bravery as in the great days of Napoleon.
— from The Children's Story of the War Volume 4 (of 10) The Story of the Year 1915 by Edward Parrott

Cabul and Dr Brydon arriving in the

At length news reached the gallant band of the disasters at Cabul; and Dr Brydon arriving in the city, confirmed the sad news.
— from Our Soldiers: Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign by William Henry Giles Kingston

condemned and disgraced by allowing it to

Arraigned at the bar of a tribunal far higher than that before which Dreyfus stood, it rests with her to show whether she will undo this great wrong and rehabilitate her fair name, or whether she will stand irrevocably condemned and disgraced by allowing it to be consummated.
— from The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell

century A D being An Introduction to

i to viii of the Elements of South Indian Paleography (A. C. Burnell, Elements of South Indian Paleography, from the fourth to the seventeenth century A. D., being An Introduction to the Study of South Indian Inscriptions and MSS., 2d edit., London and Mangalore, 1878;
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery

Clayton and Dr Bruce arrived in the

Mr. John Clayton and Dr. Bruce arrived in the evening, and Roman antiquities became the order of the next day.
— from The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

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