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Doris excitedly called up Sally
After the morning mail had come, however, Doris excitedly called up Sally again.
— from The Slipper Point Mystery by Augusta Huiell Seaman

do earthly crowds upon similar
The peculiar Dasorian equivalents of whistles, bells, and gongs were making a deafening uproar, and the crowd was yelling and cheering in much the same fashion as do earthly crowds upon similar occasions.
— from Skylark Three by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

Domestic erroneously calendared under September
There is an undated copy among the State Papers ( Domestic ) erroneously calendared under September 1662 (vol.
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

dispread exhibitions cutting up specializing
It is, by these very dispread exhibitions, cutting up, specializing and by slow degrees determining the function, character and general tendence of the organs of expression wherewith these manifestations shall be centralized and put into effective operation.
— from The Mystery of Space A Study of the Hyperspace Movement in the Light of the Evolution of New Psychic Faculties and an Inquiry into the Genesis and Essential Nature of Space by Robert T. Browne


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