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convince or silence his obstinate wife

In the end, Henry, weary of the contention, and finding it impossible to convince or silence his obstinate wife, gave way, and the laborers were again set to work to prepare for the coronation.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 06 (of 15), French by Charles Morris

carried off several hundreds of women

At Marcheville the Germans carried off several hundreds of women, who were interned at Amberg in Bavaria in barracks.
— from German Barbarism: A Neutral's Indictment by Léon Maccas

crystals or stick him over with

She could knit him a bead-purse, or make him a guard-chain, or work him a footstool, or festoon him with cut tissue-paper, or sketch his likeness, or crust him over with alum crystals, or stick him over with little rosettes of red and white wafers; but none of these being applicable to his present case, she sits gazing in resigned imbecility, till finally she desperately resolves to improvise him some gruel, and, after a laborious turn in the kitchen,—after burning her dress and blacking her fingers,—succeeds only in bringing him a bowl of paste !
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

couple of sepoys hurrying off with

Turning round Lieutenant Roberts perceived a couple of sepoys hurrying off with a standard, so he pursued and overtook them, and, seizing the standard with his left hand, he killed the bearer.
— from The Disputed V.C.: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny by Frederick P. Gibbon

Convent of Saint Hermangilda of which

The Convent of Saint Hermangilda, of which my aunt is the abbess, is hardly a quarter of a league distant from Gerolstein, for the abbey gardens border on the suburbs of the city.
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 03 by Eugène Sue

consisting of sixteen horsemen of whom

It was on the morning of Monday, the 9th of May, 1588, at about half past eleven o'clock, that a party, consisting of sixteen horsemen, of whom eight were gentlemen and the rest grooms, appeared at the gates of Paris.
— from Henry of Guise; or, The States of Blois (Vol. 2 of 3) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

chap or so hauled out with

Heads swimming and a steam launch to the rescue, and a chap or so hauled out with a boat-hook….
— from The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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