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civil and religious rights of which

The wisdom of the emperors provided for the restitution of all the civil and religious rights of which the Christians had been so unjustly deprived.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

curtsey and Robert read out with

Mrs. Boulby dropped her departing curtsey, and Robert read out, with odd pauses and puzzled emphasis: “Mrs. Lovell has received the letter which Mr. Robert Eccles has addressed to her, and regrets that a misconception should have arisen from anything that was uttered during their interview.
— from Rhoda Fleming — Complete by George Meredith

constructed a rude raft on which

“Picking up some wreckage which contained bedding and a tool chest, I, with the help of five others who had joined me on the wreck, constructed a rude raft, on which we placed the captain.
— from The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire by Charles Morris

casts and rotten remains of wood

These casts and rotten remains of wood and bark increased in abundance from this point until the original surface of the ground was reached.
— from Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States by Cyrus Thomas

crypts are reticulate ridges on which

Surrounding the uterine crypts are reticulate ridges on which are placed the openings of the uterine glands.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

convincing and relentless realistic observation with

Let us hasten then to assert that this great and impassioned novel, bringing together a wide range of characters—mostly toilers who live close to the soil—and making us live by sympathy the hard life of the fields, combines a convincing and relentless realistic observation with the true sympathetic method of the idealist.
— from The Socialist by Guy Thorne

cigar and Roderick refused one with

Rowland lit a cigar, and Roderick refused one with a grimace of extravagant disgust.
— from Roderick Hudson by Henry James

constructing another rude raft on which

Gradually they sank into hopelessness, but thought to make a final effort by constructing another rude raft, on which two of them tried to reach the shore.
— from America, Volume 5 (of 6) by Joel Cook

Consolidated a railroad right of way

This, if accomplished, would have given to the Nevada Consolidated a railroad right of way that would have solved the problem confronting it of the transportation of the ores from the lower levels of the steam-shovel pit.
— from My Adventures with Your Money by George Graham Rice

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