Outside the fortified wall, which girt the city with its cincture of grey rock, a smooth plain stretched rearward to the foot of the hill on which we stood, and right and left along the crest of the ridge from Punta Hornos to Vergara, ranged a line of dark forms—the picket sentries of the American outposts, as they stood knee-deep in the soft, yielding sand-drift. — from The Rifle Rangers by Mayne Reid
gave Raoul a strenuous Prussian salute
Wegner gave Raoul a strenuous Prussian salute, pulled his spotted gray horse's head around and rode off. — from Shaman by Robert Shea
generally rather a stormy process so
"Finding one's level" is generally rather a stormy process; so, after four years of give-and-take at Hilton House, Marjorie was, on the whole, not at all sorry to leave, and transfer [12] her energies to another sphere. — from A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Angela Brazil
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