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familiar and useful shade trees of

" This deciduous tree, generally called Kamani by the Hawaiians, with its spreading branches in horizontal whorls or layers, is one of the familiar and useful shade trees of these Islands.
— from Fruits of the Hawaiian Islands by Gerrit Parmile Wilder

found against us said the old

"No proof has been found against us," said the old man, speaking with that meek firmness which seemed to impress his questioner.
— from Brian Fitz-Count: A Story of Wallingford Castle and Dorchester Abbey by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake

Fired at us shot two of

“Fired at us; shot two of our men.”
— from To The West by George Manville Fenn

forwards and upwards so that only

The synovial apparatus was much diseased, and the epiphysis of the lower end of the femur was found displaced forwards and upwards, so that only the posterior part rested on the tibia; in fact, it was turned, as here shown, almost half round on the shaft: firm union by bone had taken place.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

float around us so that our

It is now impossible to see more than a yard or two through the intangible wisps of grey-white vapour that [Pg 120] seem to float around us, so that our formation loses its symmetry, and we become scattered.
— from Cavalry of the Clouds by Alan Bott

forcibly and unawares Sparwick toppled over

Taken forcibly and unawares, Sparwick toppled over on his side.
— from The Camp in the Snow; Or, Besieged by Danger by William Murray Graydon

forth all under severe tests of

New materials for frame construction, covering, and so forth, all under severe tests of every possible sort.
— from The Flight of the Silver Ship: Around the World Aboard a Giant Dirgible by Hugh McAlister

from an unusually severe type of

In this district the registrar had returned 162 deaths from “cholera” in the year 1841, which must have been from an unusually severe type of cholera nostras or British cholera.
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

finally adjusted until some three or

18 The extent of this homage became a matter of negociation, and the question was not finally adjusted until some three or four years after. 19 Macaulay.
— from The Life and Reign of Edward I. by Robert Benton Seeley

for a University scholarship though of

You may go in for a University scholarship, though of course you will never get one; an examination does good, I have heard, to the unsuccessful candidates.
— from Cradock Nowell: A Tale of the New Forest. Vol. 1 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

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