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collect such particulars
To exhaust this part of the subject before going farther, it may be mentioned that Count Fosco offered every facility to Mr. Kyrle, on that gentleman's stating that he was sent by Miss Halcombe to collect such particulars as had not yet reached her of Lady Glyde's decease.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

C2 sonnest P
, C2; sonnest , P.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Con su pareja
Cada oveja Con su pareja.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

couplets so perfectly
Pope translated the entire Iliad and half of the Odyssey ; and the latter work was finished by two Cambridge scholars, Elijah Fenton and William Broome, who imitated the mechanical couplets so perfectly that it is difficult to distinguish their work from that of the greatest poet of the age.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

contains seven portions
Each set of fourteen bags contains seven portions of cooked and seven portions of uncooked food.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

comic side prevailed
The German Emperor thus furnished a pleasing fancy for humoristic journalists and caricaturists, for the comic side prevailed and the mission rocked the world in the gentle throes of laughter rather
— from Germany's Vanishing Colonies by Gordon Le Sueur

conciliatory spirit prevailed
Also in the Lutheran church, more strongly influenced by Germany, similar discussions arose, but a more conciliatory spirit prevailed and violent struggles were avoided.
— from Church History, Volume 3 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

certain Saracen physician
A certain Saracen physician came to Earl Warren to ask permission to kill a dragon which had its den at Bromfield, near Ludlow, and committed great ravages in the earl's lands.
— from Strange Pages from Family Papers by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

crabs shrimps prawns
All were owners of one or more buggies, carts, plows and other agricultural implements, and those who lived near the sea owned one or more boats, with outfit of nets and fishing gear, and from spring until winter the sea yielded abundant harvest of good fish, turtles, crabs, shrimps, prawns, clams and oysters, and the marshes furnished terrapin, which sold at very remunerative figures, as I well know, for the storm took from me nearly three hundred of them.
— from The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton

Colonel Seth Pennington
He required now no further evidence that, regardless of the identity of the Judge's client, that client could not possibly be Colonel Seth Pennington or any one acting for him, since only the night before Pennington had curtly refused to buy the property for fifty thousand dollars.
— from The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne


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