'Let me go into some other room,' said the boy, retreating still farther.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
‘Let me go into some other room,’ said the boy, retreating still farther.
— from Cruikshank's Water Colours by William Harrison Ainsworth
“Let me go into some other room,” said the boy retreating still further.
— from Oliver Twist, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Charles Dickens
The pitch pine usually grows in sandy or rocky soil and is found in the United States along the Atlantic coast to Virginia, along the mountains to Georgia, westward to Western New York, Eastern Ohio, Kentucky, and Eastern Tennessee.
— from Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets Being a selection, with revision, from the teachers' leaflets, home nature-study lessons, junior naturalist monthlies and other publications from the College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1896-1904 by New York State College of Agriculture
Not a large family, widely distributed; shrubs or herbs; leaves alternate or from the root; flowers perfect; sepals and petals few, many, or none, generally in several overlapping rows; stamens on the receptacle, usually as many as the petals and opposite them; pistil one, with a short style, or none; fruit a berry or capsule.
— from Field Book of Western Wild Flowers by Margaret Armstrong
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