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Domus Regiae of these

—It would not be difficult, amongst the Majores Domus Regiae of these principalities, to find parallels to the Maires du Palais of France.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

distinct recollection of the

But, from a pretty distinct recollection of the particulars of our conversation, I am thoroughly convinced that there was truth in what he said.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

day repent of the

Above all, I think' said the lady, fixing her eyes on her son's face, 'that if an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon her, and upon his children also: and, in exact proportion to his success in the world, be cast in his teeth, and made the subject of sneers against him: he may, no matter how generous and good his nature, one day repent of the connection he formed in early life.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

dramatic representation of the

Hence, if the explanation which I have adopted of the latter is correct, the ceremony of the death and resurrection of Adonis must also have been a dramatic representation of the decay and revival of plant life.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Door right opposite the

Door right opposite the stairs."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

dry rustle of trunks

He heard the click of tusks as they crossed other tusks by accident, and the dry rustle of trunks twined together, and the chafing of enormous sides and shoulders in the crowd, and the incessant flick and hissh of the great tails.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

determined reversals of the

After all, let us, in our character of knowers, not be ungrateful towards such determined reversals of the ordinary perspectives and values, with which the mind had for too long raged against itself with an apparently futile sacrilege!
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

different religions of the

The devout polytheist, though fondly attached to his national rites, admitted with implicit faith the different religions of the earth. 3 Fear, gratitude, and curiosity, a dream or an omen, a singular disorder, or a distant journey, perpetually disposed him to multiply the articles of his belief, and to enlarge the list of his protectors.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

dark recesses of the

Athanaric, who had been a patient spectator of these extraordinary events, was at length driven, by the chance of arms, from the dark recesses of the woods of Caucaland.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

darker red on the

The eggs are flesh-coloured, sprinkled with darker red on the large end.
— from Ornithological Biography, Volume 1 (of 5) An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America by John James Audubon

detached rocks on the

Enough that at noon screams were heard in the direction of certain detached rocks on the point, and the whole party proceeding thither found three of the larger boys on the rocks, alone and cut off by the tide, having been left there, as they alleged, by Johnnyboy, WHO HAD RUN AWAY WITH THE BOAT.
— from The Bell-Ringer of Angel's, and Other Stories by Bret Harte

Democratic Republic of the

Natural hazards: periodic droughts; the volcanic Virunga mountains are in the northwest along the border with Democratic Republic of the Congo Environment - current issues: deforestation results from uncontrolled cutting of trees for fuel; overgrazing; soil exhaustion; soil erosion; widespread poaching Environment - international agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection signed, but not ratified: Law of the Sea Geography - note: landlocked; most of the country is savanna grassland with the population
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

diocese restoration of the

Each of these statutes differs from ours in one or several important articles; the fixed, or even territorial, endowment of the clergy, the nomination to the episcopate by the chapter, or by the clergy of the diocese, or by the bishops of the province, public competition for curacies, irremovability, participation of the chapter in the government of the diocese, restoration of the officialité; return to the prescriptions of the Council of Trent (Cf. especially the Concordats between the Holy See and Prussia, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Baden, the two Hesses, Belgium, Austria, Spain, and the statutes accepted or established by the Holy See in Ireland and the United States.)
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

dilated ridge on the

The beak is very broad, while the dilated ridge on the upper mandible is distinctly curved.
— from The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston

deeply respected of the

But intensely admired by [Pg 130] the few, and deeply respected of the many.
— from Oscar Wilde by Leonard Cresswell Ingleby

different readings of the

It is well known that Bach constantly polished and improved his [134] works; and the number of different readings of the Wohltemperirte Clavier would fill a large volume.
— from Bach by C. F. Abdy (Charles Francis Abdy) Williams

domestic relations of their

[314] As soon as the point was settled, in the formation of the Constitution of the United States, that the State governments were to be preserved, with all their powers unimpaired which were not required by the objects of the national government to be surrendered to the Union, the domestic relations of their inhabitants with each other necessarily remained under their exclusive control.
— from History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 2 With Notices of Its Principle Framers by George Ticknor Curtis

distant rumblings of thunder

The July sky was heavy with black clouds, copper-colored on the edges; distant rumblings of thunder were heard, and the valley had that air of expectation which often precedes a storm.
— from Jack 1877 by Alphonse Daudet

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