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following economic classes are

To-day the following economic classes are plainly differentiated among these Negroes.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

for easy concealment about

Too large for easy concealment about a woman’s dress.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

filling every court and

The people of the town who longed To view the rite together thronged, And filling every court and square Praised the good king in converse there: “Our high-souled king!
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

finely executed chasings and

It was with no little surprise at the very outset that I discovered that the walls and floor of the beautiful passage through which the Soodopsies were leading Bulger and me were of pure silver, the former being composed of polished panels ornamented with finely executed chasings and carvings, and the latter, as had in fact all the floors and streets and passages of the city having upon their polished surfaces slightly raised characters which I will explain later.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

Fashion each circle a

Round their Magnetic Mystery, which to the eye is mere tubs with water,—sit breathless, rod in hand, the circles of Beauty and Fashion, each circle a living circular Passion-Flower: expecting the magnetic afflatus, and new-manufactured Heaven-on-Earth.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

flowers etc compile associate

assemble , Chr : collect, store up , An, G, Ps ; Æ, CP: pluck ( flowers, etc. ): compile : (+) associate ( with ): (+) concentrate ( thoughts ), Bo .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

for every complaint and

Formerly, as was natural, every one expected that each of his fellow-citizens should in his turn serve the public, and thus administer to his private good, as he himself when in office had done for others; but now every one is desirous of being continually in power, that he may enjoy the advantage which he makes of public business and being in office; as if places were a never-failing remedy for every complaint, and were on that account so eagerly sought after.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

fortunes experiences confessions anecdote

narrative, history; memoir, memorials; annals &c. (chronicle) 551; saga; tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette[obs3]; personal narrative, journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions; anecdote, ana[obs3], trait.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

fine English coarsers and

Their horses appear to be of an excellent race; they are lofty eligantly formed active and durable; in short many of them look like the fine English coarsers and would make a figure in any country.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

fancy epidemic cholera a

Now just fancy epidemic cholera a disease transmissible by "susceptible articles," and what an inexhaustible stock must this large army, with its thousands of followers, have long carried about with them; but, instead of this, they were soon in a condition to take the field.
— from Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the community. by J. (James) Gillkrest

from East Central Africa

[163] Figure 123 is from East Central Africa, presented to the Christy Collection by the Viceroy of Egypt; it is described as a cutting instrument, from the country of the Dinkas and Shillooks, capable of being thrown to a great distance.
— from The Evolution of Culture, and Other Essays by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers

From experiments conducted at

From experiments conducted at Neosho, Missouri, by Mr. Page, he found that a young trout did best on a daily ration of solid food equal to about seventy-five per cent of its weight.
— from Birds and Nature, Vol. 08, No. 2, September 1900 Illustrated by Color Photography by Various

From every crest and

From every crest, and in widening lines from the ship's sides as we plowed along, the foam trailed into shreds that seemed to have been torn from the looms of a race more deft and exquisite than ours.
— from The Thread of Flame by Basil King

forth each carrying a

In about half an hour they started forth, each carrying a few traps.
— from Rocky Mountain Boys; Or, Camping in the Big Game Country by St. George Rathborne

full ecclesiastical costume and

He saw the clergy there of course go about in their soutanes and full ecclesiastical costume; and he did not see why he might not do the same.
— from Life of Father Ignatius of St. Paul, Passionist (The Hon. & Rev. George Spencer). by Pius a Sp. Sancto (Pius a Spiritu Sancto)

For each class a

For each class a separate Catechism was prepared.
— from A History of the Moravian Church by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Hutton

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