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came a damsel riding towards
At that same moment came a damsel riding towards him as fast as her horse could gallop, who, when she saw Sir Lancear dead, wept and sorrowed out of measure, crying, “O, Sir Balin, two bodies hast thou slain, and one heart; and two hearts in one body; and two souls also hast thou lost.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

cab and drove rapidly to
Master and man then descended, the street-door was double-locked, and at the end of Saville Row they took a cab and drove rapidly to Charing Cross.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

ciudades argentinas de Rosario Tucumán
De aquí es posible, por lo tanto, continuar la gira de muchas maneras, sea llegando a La Paz en Bolivia, después de pasar por las ciudades argentinas de Rosario, Tucumán,
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Connage ample dignified rouged to
This is Alec's mother, Mrs. Connage, ample, dignified, rouged to the dowager point and quite worn out.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

civility and due respect to
This is an exact inventory of what we found about the body of the man-mountain, who used us with great civility and due respect to your majesty's commission.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

chosen a different route the
It was soon ascertained that, while others had chosen a different route, the main body had taken the road to Kurowlee.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

characters and delights relating to
They said, "They are pictures and forms representative of several qualities, characters, and delights, relating to conjugial love.
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

considered are directly referred to
As we have already stated, however, none of the quotations which we have considered are directly referred to Basilides himself, but they are all introduced by the utterly vague expression, "he says," [———] without any subject accompanying the verb.
— from Supernatural Religion, Vol. 2 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels

cents a day rather than
When we see a young woman prefer a clerkship in a store,—a business which keeps her upon her feet all day, and sends her to her lonely room, filled with weariness and despair, and when we see other girls who are willing to sew for a few cents a day rather than become the maid of "my lady," there must be some reason, and this reason must be deemed sufficient by the persons who are actuated by it.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

children and did return to
And now it came to pass that when Jesus had ascended into heaven, the multitude did disperse, and every man did take his wife and his children, and did return to his own home.
— from Roughing It, Part 2. by Mark Twain

conversation a détente rather than
It was, to use a phrase which he himself suggested in our conversation, a détente rather than an entente that I had in view, with possible developments to follow it which might assume a form which would be advantageous to France and Russia, as well as to ourselves and Germany.
— from Before the War by Haldane, R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane), Viscount

C and D represent the
Let A, B, C, and D represent the names of the four classes—to one of which every native belongs.
— from Spinifex and Sand A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Ausralia by David Wynford Carnegie

confused and distracted reflections to
The unfortunate nobleman was too much wrapped up in his own confused and distracted reflections, to notice the rude expressions of savage fidelity, in which, even in the latest ebb of life, the unhappy author of his misfortunes seemed to find a stern and stubborn source of consolation.
— from The Antiquary — Complete by Walter Scott

cabins are disposed round the
The cabins are disposed round the other sides, and dropped down, in convenient situations behind.
— from Society in America, Volume 1 (of 2) by Harriet Martineau

chrysolites and diamonds reflecting the
Along the seat were rows of chrysolites and diamonds, reflecting the brightness of the sun.
— from The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855) by Thomas Bulfinch


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