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Distribution Minnesota and Kansas eastward
Distribution --Minnesota and Kansas, eastward to Nova Scotia and Florida.
— from Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan

Distribution Minnesota and Kansas eastward
Distribution - Minnesota and Kansas, eastward to Nova Scotia and Florida.
— from Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Neltje Blanchan

deep meaning and kind encouragement
She wished him good night, and good-bye, with a glance of deep meaning and kind encouragement; while the fair Camilla bent over his hand, and then departed to her chamber, with full eyes and an empty heart.
— from Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

different mammals are known especially
However, cases of different mammals are known, especially of men, sheep, and goats, in which the mammary glands were fully developed in the male sex, and yielded milk as food for their offspring.
— from The History of Creation, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes by Ernst Haeckel

de Momford a knight eye
But he that had the baseness to do, had the boldness to deny the doing of so foul a fact; until he was challenged in combat by Robert de Momford, a knight, eye-witness thereof, and by him overcome in a duel.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 1 Miscellaneous Prose by Charles Lamb

dog made a kindred echo
"What?" exclaimed the man, harshly, and a savage growl from the dog made a kindred echo to his tone.
— from Opening a Chestnut Burr by Edward Payson Roe

des Mittelalters and Kovalevsky England
Ochenkovsky, Die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung Englands am Ende des Mittelalters, and Kovalevsky, England's Social Organisation at the close of the Middle Ages (Russian), start on their inquiry from even a later period.
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff


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