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he reached the opposite shore
"Ferry me across first," said the luck-child, "and then I will tell you how you can be set free," and when he reached the opposite shore he gave him the devil's advice: "Next time any one comes, who wants to be ferried over, just put the oar in his hand."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

having removed the outer skin
El Monarca Coffee Classifier Sizing or Grading The coffee bean is now clean, the processes described in the foregoing having removed the outer skin, the saccharine pulp, the parchment, and the silver skin.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

have remembered the old saying
Howsomever, I should have remembered the old saying, every hog his own apple; for when they found my hold unstowed, they went all hands to shooling and begging; and, because I would not take a spell at the same duty, refused to give me the least assistance; so that I have not broke bread these two days.”
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

hanging round the old stones
The dogs came leaping along, and whole flocks of wild-fowl flew over the cairn, where blackberry-bushes were hanging round the old stones.
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

He reached the other side
He reached the other side with her in safety.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

however reached the other shore
He, however, reached the other shore, and the power of the devils ceased.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

he reached the other side
At last he reached the other side and Robin leaped lightly from his back.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

him Regent the old Sultan
To avert this, the British Government persuaded Sultan Mumin, but not without bringing considerable pressure to bear upon him, to nominate the Pangiran Temanggong Hasim, the senior wazir, as his successor, and to appoint him Regent, the old Sultan being too feeble-minded to govern.
— from A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 by C. A. Bampfylde

head round to one side
If he is stubborn and will not go, you can make him move by pulling his head round to one side, when whipping would have no effect.
— from A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid by J. S. (John Solomon) Rarey

He recognized the old singer
He recognized the old singer, his wife's mother, whom he had always disliked even at the time of his maddest infatuation.
— from In Paradise: A Novel. Vol. II by Paul Heyse

horses ranging themselves opposite Sage
" Buck and his band threw themselves off their horses, ranging themselves opposite Sage-brush the Sweetwater boys.
— from The Round-Up: A Romance of Arizona; Novelized from Edmund Day's Melodrama by Marion Mills Miller

he reached the other side
A young brother, who had accompanied him, and who was exhausted with swimming, turned back and his head was immediately severed from his body; but Abd-er-Rahmān held on till he reached the other side, bearing his child, and followed by his servant Bedr.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

His return to our society
His return to our society was hailed with sincere pleasure by everyone and removed a weight of anxiety from my mind.
— from The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin

he remarks that on such
Speaking of the magic influence which our poet almost invariably exerts over his auditors, he remarks, that "on such an occasion, a fellow, like Rymer , waking from his trance, shall lift up his Constable's staff, and charge this great Magician, this daring practicer of arts inhibited , in the name of Aristotle , to surrender; whilst Aristotle himself, disowning his wretched officer, would fall prostrate at his feet and acknowledge his supremacy.—'O supreme of Dramatic excellence!
— from Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 2 of 2] Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age by Nathan Drake

he read the other sheets
Then he read the other sheets again.
— from The Road to Frontenac by Samuel Merwin

had reached the other shore
But they must not stop even there in these quicksands, nor until they had reached the other shore.
— from The Awakening of the Desert by Julius Charles Birge

had reached the other side
Then, hiding my head in my hands, I rushed away like a madman, and scarcely stopped until I had reached the other side of the Pyrenees.
— from Mauprat by George Sand


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