"eacus" hidden in books

England and called upon Sir

I think it was about the same time that M. Renan was in England, and called upon Sir Henry Maine, Yule, and others at the India Office.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

establish a colony upon some

The New Haven people equipped a vessel and dispatched fifty emigrants to establish a colony upon some lands there, which they claimed to have purchased of the Indians.
— from Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

experiencing a certain unholy satisfaction

He stood with hands clenched, experiencing a certain unholy satisfaction.
— from The Little Moment of Happiness by Clarence Budington Kelland

effect a capture under such

When you find Trout pulling or snatching at the worm, which may be termed runaway bites, and when in fact they neither take it nor let it alone, it is a sign they are full, and the best plan to effect a capture under such circumstance is to strike that moment they touch your bait, for if you do not succeed by a snap, but allow them time, they will only play with it for a few moments, and then finally leave you in the lurch.
— from The Teesdale Angler by R. Lakeland

Eifel and choked up some

—The tufaceous alluvium called trass, which has covered large areas in the Eifel, and choked up some valleys now partially re-excavated, is unstratified.
— from The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

establish a check upon secret

This Voltaire says: “The laws punished public crimes; it was necessary to establish a check upon secret crimes; this check was to be found only in religion.”
— from The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 by Various

exile and confiscation upon six

Making no account of the engagements he had entered into, he now permitted the Neri to perpetrate the most atrocious outrages on the families of their opponents, and to close this scene of horror by pronouncing sentence of exile and confiscation upon six hundred of the most illustrious citizens.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 1 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

Expedition against Canada under Sir

John Walley was probably the Major Walley who shared the Disgrace of the ill advised and iller executed Expedition against Canada, under Sir William Phips.
— from The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Vol. 2 of 3) by Robert Calef

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