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committee one by one leaving the

Mr. Buckstone had reported the bills from his committee, one by one, leaving the bill to the last.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

city of Babylon or like the

The Christian cause now became like the doomed city of Babylon or like the site of Nineveh, which, buried in the sand and covered with the desolation and silence of centuries, became lost to the memory of the world, so that even the very record of scripture was the jest of the infidel, until the spade of Layard brought them again to resurrection.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

can only break out leave the

If you can only break out, leave the rest to me.
— from Wonderful Escapes by Frédéric Bernard

chief of Baltistán or Little Tibet

With the Nepal Makvánis may be compared the Makpons or army-men the caste of the chief of Baltistán or Little Tibet.
— from History of Gujarát Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume I, Part I. by James M. Campbell

colonies of beavers once lived though

They unquestionably mark spots where colonies of beavers once lived, though it might have been many years before.
— from Muskrat City by Henry Abbott

cases of breach of law to

The king refused to interfere by any further and harsher provisions between employers and employed, and left cases of breach of law to be dealt with in his ordinary courts of justice.
— from History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by John Richard Green

come one by one like the

If they will come one by one, like the plums in the kitchen porridge, I shall make a fine meal!"
— from The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman

comfortable on board or leave the

That any one should have the energy to come ashore when he was comfortable on board, or leave the shore when amply provided there with sunshine, elbowroom, and other necessaries of life, presented itself to them as a fact worthy of note but not of emulation.
— from In Kedar's Tents by Henry Seton Merriman

centre of both of learning too

Alexandria, purely Greek, very fair, opulent, and teeming, was the universal centre of both, of learning too, of debauchery as well—elements which its queen, a viper of the Nile, personified.
— from Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus

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