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force of rangers with orders to

Through this action, and an effort made by Robertson about the same time to come to an understanding with the Chickamauga band, there was a temporary cessation of hostile inroads upon the Cumberland, but long before the end of the year the attacks were renewed to such an extent that it was found necessary to keep out a force of rangers with orders to scour the country and kill every Indian found east of the Chickasaw boundary.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

full of resentment was on the

The man Dawson had now usurped Ford’s position in the household, and the latter, full of resentment, was on the constant watch and as full of suspicion as we all were.
— from As We Forgive Them by William Le Queux

FALL OF ROME WOMEN OF THE

NARRATIVE WOMEN OF THE APOSTOLIC AGE THE ERA OF PERSECUTION SAINT HELENA AND THE TIME OF CONSTANTINE POST-NICENE MOTHERS THE NUNS OF THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH WOMEN WHO WITNESSED THE FALL OF ROME WOMEN OF THE FRANKISH CHURCH PART
— from Women of Early Christianity by Mitchell Carroll

fury of religious war only to

What help to have softened the edge and fury of religious war, only to discover new antagonisms of opinion as capable of devastating heart and affections as any homoousion of old?
— from Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Father of railways was of the

Their reception of “the Father of railways” was of the most enthusiastic description.
— from Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles

for our reception was only too

The fact that no arrangements had been made for our reception was only too obvious.
— from Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

forms of religious worship or their

The old temples of the people were either done away with (we have many edicts of the Han period concerning the abolition of popular forms of religious worship), or their worship was converted into an official cult: the all-powerful gentry extended their domination over religion as well as all else.
— from A History of China by Wolfram Eberhard

folk of Rye were obliged to

Old Houses formerly standing in Spon Street Coventry Rye was strongly fortified by a wall with gates and towers and a fosse, but the defences suffered grievously from the attacks of the French, and the folk of Rye were obliged to send a moving petition to King Richard II, praying him "to have consideration of the poor town of Rye, inasmuch as it had been several times taken, and is unable further to repair the walls, wherefore the town is, on the sea-side, open to enemies."
— from Vanishing England by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

flood of relief went over the

A flood of relief went over the woman’s face, and Ruth was instantly glad she had offered.
— from The Search by Grace Livingston Hill

feet of Raoul were over the

The feet of Raoul were over the edge of the cliff, bathed in that void which is peopled by vertigo, and provokes to self-annihilation.
— from The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

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