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connection of events so interlinked that each
It indicates a connection of events so interlinked that each springs from, and is joined with, the preceding, as if it were a conclusion which followed from the premiss of the Divine argument.
— from Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. John by William Alexander

Cost of English soldiers in the East
[Campbell, Sir Colin.] Cockburn , Lieutenant, gallant services at Hattrass, 112 Coke , Brigadier, services against rebels, 241 , 496 Colvin , Mr, proclamation disapproved by government, 110 ——, disarms 44th and 67th B. N. I. at Agra, 111 ——, death, services, and character, 348 Compensation to sufferers, arrangements for, 484 Cost of English soldiers in the East, 26 Cotton , Colonel, supersedes Polwhele at Agra, 285 Council of India, names of members, 575 Courts-martial on mutineers, arrangements, 51 Covenanted and uncovenanted service of E. I. Company, 443 Crime, lessening of, under recent Indian reforms, 6 Crowe , Lieut., earns the Victoria Cross by gallantry, 258 Currie , Captain, mortally wounded at Cawnpore, 253 Dalhousie , Marquis of, career as Governor-general, 2 , 87 , 218 Darjeeling, proposed colonisation at, 518 Deesa, military operations at, 293 , 550 Delafosse , Lieutenant, gallantry at Cawnpore, 135 Delhi, history and description, 63 , 67 ——, arrival of mutineers from Meerut, 52 ——, mutiny of native troops, 73 ——, atrocities and sufferings at, 74 - 79 ——, king of Delhi assumes command, 74 , 75 ——, operations of siege army, 231 , 236 , 239 , 243 , 301 , 303 ——, Cashmere Gate blown in, 307 ——, storming and capture, 306 - 310 ——, state of, after the siege, 311 , 355 , 383 , 435 ——, king of, mutineers sanctioned by, 74 —— ——, captured by Hodson, 313 —— ——, behaviour and treatment in confinement, 356 —— ——, submitted to trial, 404 Dewan Moolraj , rebellion of, 3 Dholpore, mutineers plan attack on Agra, 351 Dil Koosha, palace at Lucknow, 369 Dinapoor, mutiny, and its consequences, 268 , 274 Distances in India, table of, 12 District-regulations, 15 Doab, important towns in, 107 ——, operations in.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

characteristics of every ship in the enemy
Instantly every telescope and pair of binoculars in the Japanese fleet was levelled at them in an endeavour to identify the craft in sight—for we were intimately acquainted with the characteristics of every ship in the enemy’s fleet—and presently we recognised the big, three-funnelled craft at the head of the port line as the Oslabia , while the two-funnelled battleship leading the starboard line was undoubtedly the Suvaroff , Admiral Rojdestvensky’s flagship.
— from Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Harry Collingwood

case of each statement is to examine
What we have to do in the case of each statement is to examine whether it was made under such circumstances as to lead us to suspect, from our knowledge of the habits of normal humanity, that the operations implied in the making of it were incorrectly performed.
— from Introduction to the Study of History by Charles Seignobos

cortex or even sooner if the effusion
The struggle between the mycelium on the one hand, which tries to extend all round in the cortex, and the tree itself, on the other, as it tries to repair the mischief, will end in the triumph of the fungus as soon as its ravages extend so far as to cut off the water supply to the parts above: this will occur as soon as the mycelium extends all round the cortex, or even sooner if the effusion of turpentine hastens the blocking up of the channels.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 by Various

character or elaborate skill in the entanglement
The result of these, his various studies, was the production of a form of tragedy, which, to be fairly appreciated, must be compared with the French, not the English, drama: for Schiller stands at an immeasurable distance, not merely from Shakspeare, but from the great body of the romantic dramatists of the English and Spanish schools, in whom are to be found either profound development of character, or elaborate skill in the entanglement and management of incident.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 7 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

corner of Eleventh street is the equally
On the opposite side of the street, at the northwest corner of Tenth street, is the handsome brown stone Episcopal Church of the Ascension, and on the southwest corner of Eleventh street is the equally handsome First Presbyterian Church, constructed of the same material.
— from Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe


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