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from Agricola now goes on to

58 ( return ) [ Tacitus, after having given the report of the Britons as he had heard it, probably from Agricola, now goes on to state his own views on the subject.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

favourite and national god of the

He is, indeed, the favourite and national god of the Vedic Indian.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

friend and not go over to

Canst thou go nigh unto thy friend, and not go over to him?
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

far away nasal grandfather of the

The twain were relatives, for the tea-kettle was the shriveled, far away, nasal grandfather of the engine, and beneath it were the words, " In the beginning ."
— from The World on Wheels, and Other Sketches by Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin) Taylor

floors are not grooved or tongued

The board floors are not grooved or tongued, so there is ample ventilation from beneath; but they have installed decent cooking ranges and gas, and the men have already made themselves all sorts of handy little laboursaving gadgets.
— from The New Army in Training by Rudyard Kipling

forming a national gallery of the

This was so successful that from this time on, Browere was devoted to making casts of the most noted characters in the country’s history, who were then living, with the purpose of forming a national gallery of the busts of famous Americans.
— from Browere's Life Masks of Great Americans by Charles Henry Hart

found a new grass of the

In my ride I found a new grass of the genus Chloris
— from Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by T. L. (Thomas Livingstone) Mitchell

from a new grouping of these

This change may arise either from a new development or transformation of the old elements, or else from a new grouping of these elements with other and varied elements; so that the words "new" nation or "young" nation may have a real difference of significance in one case from what they have in another.
— from African and European Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt

from a native general of the

This is a message from a native general of the Jebu force to a native prince abroad.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery

farmhouses and noble groups of trees

Fields and farmhouses and noble groups of trees were hidden or showed only in ghostly outlines.
— from Ellen Levis: A Novel by Elsie Singmaster

far and near gathered on the

The people from far and near, gathered on the hills and looked on in silent wonder.
— from The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field

for although native growths of timber

The walnut-tree, then, may be considered as offering many claims for its more extensive cultivation, for although native growths of timber have been of late years in a measure superseded by American walnut and hickory wood, still it offers no mean inducements to the planter upon this score alone, at the same time it must be allowed that with us the chief inducement to the culture of this tree is the value of its fruit and the handsome tree which it makes.
— from Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation by James Buckman

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