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for each list is divided successively
The total number of votes for each list is divided successively by the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., and the results are arrayed thus: Catholic List
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

from each locality is described separately
The sample from each locality is described separately.
— from Records of the Fossil Mammal Sinclairella, Family Apatemyidae, From the Chadronian and Orellan by William Alvin Clemens

fuel enough left I dare say
She has given over, I believe, all thoughts of our sex: but when the dying embers are raked up about the half-consumed stump, there will be fuel enough left, I dare say, to blaze out, and give a comfortable warmth to a half-starved by-stander.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Samuel Richardson

for ever listening in deathlike silence
And what would Clebrig do, and Mudal Water, and all the wide, bleak country that had been brought up in the love of her, and was saturated with the charm of her presence, and seemed for ever listening in deathlike silence for the light music of her voice?
— from White Heather: A Novel (Volume 1 of 3) by William Black

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