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Farewell Charlie Sloane Gilbert
H2 anchor Chapter III Greeting and Farewell Charlie Sloane, Gilbert Blythe and Anne Shirley left Avonlea the following Monday morning.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

feet celestial sandals grace
Last her fair feet celestial sandals grace.
— from The Iliad by Homer

form catch splendid glimpses
But as the meek and lowly at the penitent form catch splendid glimpses of their future lordly existence, so did he catch similar glimpses of the state he would gain to by possessing her.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

first chance she got
She went teh deh devil deh first chance she got!
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

friar could say grace
" "Thou pratest like an ass," said Robin, "for I could send this shaft clean through thy proud heart before a curtal friar could say grace over a roast goose at Michaelmastide.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

fantastically carved stone gutters
Outside the balustrade of the tower, directly under the point where the priest had paused, there was one of those fantastically carved stone gutters with which Gothic edifices bristle, and, in a crevice of that gutter, two pretty wallflowers in blossom, shaken out and vivified, as it were, by the breath of air, made frolicsome salutations to each other.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

from compact solid gray
In sinking down, a change in the rock was experienced, passing from compact solid gray limestone, by several gradations, into a loose granulated limestone, very friable, and easily reduced to grains.
— from Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Father Christmas Saint George
In Folk-Lore, Vol. X., a fully illustrated description of the Mumming Play, as performed at Newbold, a village near Rugby, is given.[22] Here the characters are Father Christmas, Saint George, a Turkish Knight, Doctor, Moll Finney (mother of the Knight), Humpty Jack, Beelzebub, and 'Big-Head-and-Little-Wit.'
— from From Ritual to Romance by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston

Fifth century St Genialis
Vaison Fourth century St. Aubin 1790 Cavaillon Fifth century St. Genialis 1790 Province de Bordeaux Bordeaux (Bishopric) Third century (Archibishopric)
— from The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

First Consul so general
It was indeed a novel idea, that loyal league, which exhibited both R. C and Anglican Bishops, each putting their hands in their pockets to help Protestant England to rout the armies of the "eldest son of the Church," represented by the First Consul; so general and so intense was the horror inspired by revolutionary and regicide France.
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

first commissioned State geologist
I refer to Professor Olmstead, who, though he has since won brighter laurels in another department of science, will always be honored as the first commissioned State geologist in our land.
— from The Uses of Astronomy An Oration Delivered at Albany on the 28th of July, 1856 by Edward Everett

feeding clothing sheltering guarding
argin, however, there had to be deducted not only the cost of feeding, clothing, sheltering, guarding and transporting the slaves for the several months commonly elapsing between purchase and sale in the trade, but also allowances for such loss as might occur in transit by death, illness, accident or escape.
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips


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